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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Saturday, November 1, 2003 at 7:58 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Richard
(1 messages posted)
REEPLACE in the config.sys file (located in C:\)
DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=EMM386.EXE
Only it will work well.
On Thursday, September 4, 2003 at 3:23 pm, Lou wrote:
>Have you considered using a special boot disk for playing those games? I have a
>dual boot system and neither Windows 98 or Windows 2000 are very good at allowing
>those games to play right. I took a regular Windows 98 boot disk, removed most
of
>the stuff on it, then added items to the autoexec.bat and config.sys files. Put
>these lines in your config.sys on the boot floppy: DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
>/TESTMEM:OFF /Q /HMAMIN=63
>DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM
>
>These allowed me 608kB of conventional ram, and 18kB of umb's. I also have 16MB
>of expanded memory,... that should be enough. I have about a dozen old DOS games
>(DOOM, DOOMII Final + about 30 custom wads, Heretic, Quake, W3D, DN and DN2, plus
>a bunch of smaller games like PacPC and MsPacPC). The above combo cleared up all
>memory requirement issues that I had in the begining. Some of those games didn't
>have sound or had memory problems running in the DOSshell inside of Windows 98,
and
>most didn't work at all in Windows 2000.
>You will have to have DOS drivers for your mouse and sound card (loaded high in
your
>autoexec.bat file). Both were readily available online.
>
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