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Re: Ultima 7.5 memory problems!

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From: 2007... Khanh
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1993 19:42
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In article <1993Jun1.0...@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, awi...@nyx.cs.du.edu (Andy Wilson) writes...
>   Greetings! I had the sheer unmitigated temerity to ask Serpent Isle
>to run on a mere AT with 2 megs of memory -- it complained. I'm
>running Dos 6, clean, no doublespace or anything; no matter what I try
>to do, I can't seem to get all the bytes it wants. (I'm on a vanilla
>SB, so have to get 586000 bytes or so...) If I bypass autoexec and
>config and load the mouse driver from the command line, I wind up with
>enough extended memory but 4500 bytes short on normal; if I load
>HIMEM.SYS (and nothing else) in config I get all the ordinary <640K
>memory in the world but not enough extended. My question to the world:
>how can I free up any more? Is there a mouse driver for a
>Microsoft-compatible rodent that'll load in 8K or less? Is there a way
>to get HIMEM to provide less than 64K of memory so to kick the
>available extended up over 1000K? Am I doomed to spend my head banging
>against a wall? Thanks!

	Hi.
     No, there is no mouse that can get as little as 8K or less.   The
one I am using now asks for 11K. Which is good compare to the new 17K
mouse. ( Yes my mouse is MS mouse )
    Bye bye
P.S. If you need my mouse, I'll send it to you in uudecode, but drop
me a mail first
	KHANH

> 
>ObNonTechnical: My record for beating Ultima VII was 5 minutes or so
>                -- boot up, teleport to the under-the-mountain armory,
>                grab the wand and the three gadgets, teleport to the
>                Isle of the Avatar, plug, zap, and awaaaaay we go!
> 
> 
>--
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                  Andy Wilson -- awi...@nyx.cs.du.edu
>      "From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step." --Napoleon
>                "Ying tong iddle i po!" --Spike Milligan
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From: 2007...@vill.edu (Khanh)
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Subject: Re: Ultima 7.5 memory problems!
Summary: Trying to get it to run.
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