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Anyway to run DOOM under Windows??

#347
From: Rick... Rick Pali
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 02:04
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21 Jan 94 02:46, Roger A. Krupski wrote:

 RAK> I run DOOM with QEMM memory manager. It works just fine. I run it from
an
 RAK> ordinary boot (i.e. mouse driver, ANSI.SYS, ramdrive, disk cache etc..)
 RAK> all loaded (loaded hi, no less). It works fine, AND it doesn't trash
 RAK> the machine. After playing DOOM, I can exit back to DOS and do anything
 RAK> else reliably. It's a VERY nice piece of programming.

You might want to try and remove everything you can from your setup, including
(especially) QEMM. I read it here and didn't believe it until I tried it, but
the game is smoother *without* a memory manager. It just just fine by
itself...

Rick.
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Subject: Anyway to run DOOM under Windows??
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