Descent and DOS

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From: Doug Cook
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:56

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Hi,
I have 2 old Toshiba laptops, and I'd like to dedicate one to running old
DOS games - mainly Descent 1 and 2.  The first laptop has a P100 and 40 MB
ram.  The second has a P120 and 32 MB ram.  Which is more important,
processor or memory?  I'm hoping that one or the other would be more than
sufficient.  They both currently have Win98 installed.  Is Windows DOS
workable, or should I install DOS 6?  Also, can someone please post the most
effective autoexec.bat and config.sys files for running descent.  I've
forgotten more about DOS than I'll ever remember.  Thanks.
Doug

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