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Re: C&C, Windows 95 and Wireplay

#1080
From: ch... Chris Berry
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 00:00
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ste...@sco.com (Steven Foster) wrote:

>Hi,

>Trying to get C&C to work with Wireplay (this is a trial for
>a BT multi-player dial-up cheap-ish network thingy), but I
>have discovered that I need to free up conventional memory
>to get C&C to run.

>Slapped:
>           DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM

>in my Wireplay-specific config.sys, but discovered that this
>causes C&C to hang when starting up.

>Problem could be C&C or (more likely) in Win95's EMM386.

I assume you also put Device=c:\windows\Himem.sys  in first!


>Other than using an earlier version of EMM386 that will
>co-exist with C&C, anyone know of a newer EMM386 or patch for
>C&C that fixes this ?

>Cheers,

>Steven
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Date: 1996/04/24
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