I have a question about Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?:

I am running Win98se, and have been trying to load some old DOS programs that I am fond of. Problem is that I have been having to write out config.sys & autoexec.bat lines to give me the necessary conventional memory and extended memory needed to run some of these old games. Thru some research and trial and error, I have constructed these files so that I now have enough conventional memory, but not enough EMS memory. Does anyone have any suggestions, or know of some additional lines that could be added?? I remember back in the days of DOS 6 and Win 3.1 that there was an aftermarket memory manager called QEMM that solved problems like this. Maybe something out there now similar??? Thanks, Buddy

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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.


On Thursday, September 4, 2003 at 12:50 pm, B. Stone wrote:
>I have a question about Do
>I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?:

>
>I am running Win98se, and have been trying to load some old DOS programs that I am
>fond of. Problem is that I have been having to write out config.sys & autoexec.bat
>lines to give me the necessary conventional memory and extended memory needed to
>run some of these old games.
>
>Thru some research and trial and error, I have constructed these files so that I
>now have enough conventional memory, but not enough EMS memory.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions, or know of some additional lines that could be
>added?? I remember back in the days of DOS 6 and Win 3.1 that there was an aftermarket
>memory manager called QEMM that solved problems like this. Maybe something out there
>now similar???
>
>Thanks,
>
>Buddy
>

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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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