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Unread 4 Jan 2004, 19:54   #1
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Old DOS Games
I'm using Win98SE, and I wanna play some old DOS games. Problem is, some of they say I have too little free RAM (I presume it's cutting some end digits off my 262,144kb). How do I get round this?
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Unread 4 Jan 2004, 20:33   #2
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Re: Old DOS Games
It's talking about conventional memory, which I believe is limited to 640k.

If you go to an MS Dos command prompt and type 'mem' it'll give you a readout of your current memory status. EMM was the DOS memory manager which frees up conventional memory by swapping programs into Extended memory, but I'm not sure if that'll work too well with Win98.

Best bet is to use an MS Dos boot disk and run Dos games through that.
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Best bet is to use an MS Dos boot disk and run Dos games through that.
I'll try that, thanks.
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which I believe is limited to 640k.
"640k ought to be enough for anybody"
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"640k ought to be enough for anybody"
that statement has been taken out of context for years now, poor old mr. gates... less of the poor actually
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Re: Old DOS Games
i got all 4 (on teh pc)

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and i got the amiga ver monkey island 1

stump joke (hehehehehe)
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Re: Old DOS Games
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mem /c /p
works better actually.

In good old DOSdays there was a nice little tool called MemMaker. Used to optimize your conventional RAM.

You need to load himem.sys and emm386.exe (inside your config.sys), in order to use the DEVICEHIGH command in your config.sys and LOADHIGH in your autoexec.bat for your mouse and soundcard drivers.

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Re: Old DOS Games
You could also try DosBox if you don't want to have to boot everytime you play.

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Re: Old DOS Games
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You could also try DosBox if you don't want to have to boot everytime you play.

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Grrr, I saw the thread title, and clicked, just in order to suggest DOSBox...
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Re: Old DOS Games
*tries DosBox*
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Re: Old DOS Games
Yay! It seems to work!
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Civ 1. Civ 1. And once more, Civ 1. Elite, if you want a change.
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Re: Old DOS Games
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Civ 1. Civ 1. And once more, Civ 1. Elite, if you want a change.
If it's not on an acorn computer, it's not proper elite
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How could I forget Sam and Max.
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