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In article <2o9g5u...@owl.csrv.uidaho.edu> tene...@cs.uidaho.edu (Aric TenEyck) writes:
>William J. Startin (wjst...@gamera.syr.edu) wrote:
>: Earl Bonovich (ebon...@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
>: : As of now I have not seen anyone run Doom under Windows, but
>: : according to what I have been reading about Version 1.2 of Doom
>: : is that it will allow it to run under Windows.  I beleave the reason
>: : is that Version 1.1 is not compatable with the Memory managers that
>: : Windows uses, but the 1.2 version will compensate for that.
>
>: Well, I recently got onto the Doom bandwagon, after I played the game on
>: a friend's PC and was blown away by it. Unfortunately, my PC has only 
>: 4 MB of RAM.  Then I thought of Windows (v3.1) and its virtual memory...
>: So I tried running Doom shareware v1.2 under windows (executing from File
>: Manager) and it worked!! The disk access is a bit of a pain, and the graphics
>: aren't always as smooth as they should be because of access delays, but
>: thanks to local bus IDE it's quite good. 
>
>    You would be better off running it from DOS.  I have 4 megabytes of 
>RAM, and have no trouble with it.  However, chances are, you are running 
>a disk cache.  These can use up to a megabyte of memory.  You need to do 
>a 'clean boot', i.e. don't load _anything_ except DOS.  No memory 
>managers, no disk cache, no tsr's, nothing.  The only exception is a 
>mouse driver if you wish to use one.  Go straight to Doom, and it will 
>work fine.  Try it, I think you'll be pleasantly suprised.


Just to reiterate that running Doom from Windows is one way to cure the psycho
mouse problem with PS/2 mice.

For a full description on this, get doomhelp.zip and doomhelp.txt from
ocf.unt.edu in /pub/doom/text (see the files notes1_2.hlp and windoom.hlp
that are contained within the doomhelp.zip archive).

Ian.