Re: WC II Deluxe, Win 95, and Base Memory

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From: Thomas Russell Hong
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 00:00

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On 31 Dec 1995, David Trenda wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I have been attempting to install the CD-ROM version of Wing Commander II 
> Deluxe Edition that came with my Gravis Joystick.  I keep getting stuck 
> with the "insufficient conventional memory" warning that the installation 
[etc.etc.etc.]
>      The WC II manual says I need at least 583K conventional available, 
> so if I can't even turn on the computer without losing 87K of 
> conventional, how the heck am I supposed to be able to run this darn 
> thing?

	One word:  Memmaker.  =)

>      I'm running a Packard Bell 75mHz Pentium with 16MB RAM and Win 95, 
> and I have checked to be sure my expanded memory manager is operating and 
> all device drivers are loading into high memory.  I have tried setting 
> the memory preferences for this program in Win 95 to 640K conventional, 
> but it still won't let me run the program, and then it sets this item 
> back to the default "auto" memory setting.

	Get rid of some of the unnecessary drivers that Packard Bell
surely have preinstalled by editing your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT.  You
don't need fancy-shmancy antivirus TSRs for running WC2, for example.

TRH Sends
________________________________________________________________
Thomas Russell Hong
Columbia University in the City of New York
Department of Biological Sciences
email: th...@columbia.edu

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