RE: Old Games

["Brown, Peter J" <p.j.brown@ic.ac.uk>]

Another option (and I should confess I've not actually tried this yet, but
see no reason why it shouldn't work in theory) . . .  Partition Magic / Boot
Magic - set up a small FAT 16 DOS partition on your disk and boot into it
when you want to do DOS things.

Pete

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Paul Robson [SMTP:probson@powerup.com.au]
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 13, 2001 1:21 PM
> To:	gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com
> Subject:	RE: Old Games
> 
> 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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