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On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:46:40 +1000, "blah" <bl...@blah.com> wrote:

> "skiddy" <markd...@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
> news:3e64a1c2$0$12817$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> > I think I got some QEMM here somewhere may have to hunt for it though,
> check
> > back with me soon.
> 
> That would be great!  I'd like to make better use of the memory in the PC.
> At the moment I've only configured 8MB of EMS.  The sad thing is the machine
> has 512MB of RAM!

There is one problem with using QEMM, at least as I recall my personal
experience with QEMM 97.  Unless I missed a feature (entirely
possible, though I did scour the help files), you can't limit the
amount of memory given to a program.

Normally this wouldn't be an issue, but with Priv/RF, if you have more
than 32MB of memory, sound effects come out all kinds of screwed-up.

Using emm386.exe, you need to include, after the RAM statement, an
amount of memory (in KB, with 1024KB=1MB) to allow the system to use.
I generally used 16384 (16MB) in my specialized boot configurations,
when I could get Privateer to run on my system, as programs from
around that time period really couldn't make use of gobs of memory
anyhow.  Considering that Priv/RF only requires 2.5MB of EMS memory in
the first place, 16MB is far more than sufficient to give Privateer
room to play.

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