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running dos programs with WinMe
Name: Dana Date: March 24, 2003 at 18:20:31 Pacific OS: WinMe CPU/Ram: t-bird 1.2/512mb
Comment:
The subject says it all. I get a message from windows saying "scorched earth may not run well unless it is run in ms-dos mode. Do you want to change its shortcut properties to make it always run in ms-dos mode?" then i get the message saying that the program runs in ms-dos mode (real mode) which WinMe does not support and tells me to change the properties then i get "this shortcut tries to use ms-dos mode which is not suported in millenium. Do you want it to run in an ms-dos virtual machine instead? then it loops me back to the first message i typed.
Name: Mark Date: March 25, 2003 at 03:44:42 Pacific
Reply:
This may not work, but create an MS-DOS shortcut to the program then go into the properties of the shortcut. On one of the menus there should be something that says 'Prevent MS-DOS programs from detecting Windows'.
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Response Number 2
Name: x86 Date: March 25, 2003 at 04:18:35 Pacific
Summary: I need to run dos programs with at least 580kb conventional memory, WinMe allowed me to use no more than 547Kb, with win98 I Used to put DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS, DEVICE=EMM386.EXE NOEMS, DOS=HIGH,UMB and i...
Summary: Okay the one at home is a p3 950 with 196 mg ram. the office one is p2 650 with 196 mg ram. I had this one at home and was using it till I sold the box to my boss. I did run DOS programs on it but wh...
Summary: I need to run 1 MS-DOS program in WinMe, I need at least 580Kb free of conventional memory, but I can't do it!!!. Usualy I used Device=himem.sys,device=emm386.exe noems dos=high,umb in Win98, but conf...
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