RE: Old Games

["Paul Robson" <probson@powerup.com.au>]

Hi Rob,

Unfortunately, the dos 7 (or whatever it is when win95 came out) is quite a
bit bigger that DOS6.2 for example.  I have found it impossible to any dos
games with the "new" version of MSDos becoz it just takes up too much base
memory.  The only way around this problem is to make a boot disk that has
dos6.2 or whatever.. and run memmaker on it to get all your tsr proggies and
drivers into high memory.  If you're running win98 or better, you're most
likely using FAT32, and this makes a bit of a problem, as dos6.2 and lower
have no support for fat32.  So in effect, you wont be able to use your hard
disk.  makes things a tad hard doesn't it?  The only good solution is to get
one of your old 486s and install plain dos on it to play all the old games.

sucks, I know.


Paul


>Hi,
>
>This as a question nor really on the subject of lprogramming but more holw
to get old games to work. To any of you have any >tips/ideas for running old
DOS games. Specifcally the game I am trying to run is The 7th Guest, which I
have had for years >but have never been able to get to work. Do any of you
know how to make a decent DOS boot disk which enables the CD drivers >to
work and have a decent amount of base memory (640k) left. Also can there be
problem trying to play old games on a >relativly new machine??
>
>Thanks,
>Rob.
>
>P.S. Having just looked in the troubleshooting guide it says I need 512k
base memory in conjunction with EMM386 or some >such memory manager and CD +
mouse must work..

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