🚀 go-pugleaf

Search the net for a program called QEMM.  This is an old dos memory 
manager, and it will easily get you 600k+ free to play anything with all 
drivers loaded (cdrom, sb16, mscdex, smartdrv, etc...).  QEMM 97 (version 
9) works extrememly well.


 



"blah" <bl...@blah.com> wrote in news:b3vmd7$qdm$1...@gnamma.connect.com.au:

> I've finally got hold of the old PC and I am trying to get it to run
> privateer.  I've determined that nothing seems to be using the memory
> block from D000-DFFF and with the current boot disk there is 582K free
> base RAM. 
> 
> 1. If I boot into a DOS Win98 environment can it work?  Or do I have
> to try to get it working using a DOS 6.22 boot disk?  I've sysed the
> hard drive using a Win98 startup disk, and copied the tools and
> utilities from the startup disk.  So the drive doesn't have a full
> install of Win98. 
> 
> 2. Is 582K enough base RAM?  I am getting an error message from
> privateer when it tries to start which seems to indicate that it wants
> more base memory.
> 
> Here's the Autoexec and config files I am using.
> 
> Rob
> 
> CONFIG.SYS:
> =================
> DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS
> DEVICE=C:\EMM386.EXE 8192 RAM I=D000-DFFF
> FILES=30
> BUFFERS=20
> DOS=High,UMB
> DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana
> LASTDRIVE=Z
> 
> =================
> AUTOEXEC.BAT:
> =================
> MSCDEX.EXE  /D:banana /L:D
> path=c:\;c:\dos
> cd privater
> =================
> 
> 
> 
>