Hi, trying to play some old dos games on my Old PC. When i go into dos and hit the EXE it says : 'No EMS driver found please make sure that EMS driver will be init in your config.sys file, I.E DEVICE=c:\dos\emm386.exe ram 2048" Now now i'm running win98 SE 4.10 and it doesn't seem to have memmaker. I go to dos prompt and type mem and it says i have 64,782, 336 in XMS so how can it so the program will run. This PC was given to me and it has a cd rom but floppy is broken and only works once in a blue moon, i don't have any installation or driver disks either

Memmaker was added on a 95 supplemental disk and works with 98. You might be able to download the files somewhere or I can email them to you. You can set up a basic config.sys: DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.exe RAM 2048 DOS=HIGH,UMB I included the RAM 2048 since that was mentioned in the sample line the game gave. Memmaker has the option to add expanded memory also and you might get more efficient memory allocation by using it. Post back your email address if you want me to send the memmaker files.

You don't need anything but notepad to create or edit config.sys as DAVE has outlined Memmaker (if desired) can be found in olddos.exe from M$ CD extras EMS (expanded memory) is an obsolete standard, and needs to be specified. Only (really) old games or applications would require it I agree; Computing.Net participants need to proofread

thanks,email is gunna01@hotmail.com a funny thing i noticed too when i press F8/left shift and bring the menu to start normal or safe mode etc, when i choose safe mode a line comes up saying "HIMEM is testing expanded memory...." and it hangs, i waited for a minute and nothing so rebooted. Also that link is for 95 upgrades, but i got 98, still safe to use? Could this be part of my problem?

The link is for old DOS files for use in Windows 95 and 98 - as mentioned memmaker isn't a requirement anyways, it's just an application to optimize DOS memory management - you may (or may not) find it beneficial for setting up DOS for your old game. The main thing is to configure C:\config.sys as suggested by DAVE (and the error message) - that's only a matter of editing or creating the file with Notepad - but whichever way you see fit ""HIMEM is testing expanded memory" Are you certain it doesn't say extended memory? I agree; Computing.Net participants need to proofread

Also: "when i choose safe mode" Presumably the command prompt safe mode? Not sure why you'd want to do that I agree; Computing.Net participants need to proofread

I needed to go into safe mode after following the advise of a website that didn't work. I ran memmaker, worked kinda ok, but while it was setting up i saw it say something like "emm386 not available. So i search in c:\windows and it is there, but if i double click on it, it says "Expanded Memory Services not availble EMM386 active" Defiantly says expanded, double checked it.