Re: Old Games

["Cosmin Halmagi" <hcosmin@go.ro>]

I use Win95 OSR 2 and I don't have any problems running old dos games.
You should always try to boot into dos (press F8, choose command prompt only
at startup) when you are trying to play an old game.

A configuration which should give much conventional dos memory:
config.sys:
dos=high,umb
device=c:\windows\himem.sys
device=c:\windows\emm386.exe ram
rem my cdrom driver, you should check yours
devicehigh=c:\sbide.sys /d:msdc001 /p:1f0,14 /v
autoexec.bat:
@echo off
path c:\;c:windows\command;c:\windows;
lh mscdex /d:mscd001 /v
lh mouse

you can usually use the microsoft mouse driver for most mouses under dos.
you might have to add some lines for sound blaster, etc...

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Quill <quills@madasafish.com>
To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com <gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 12:18 AM
Subject: Old Games


    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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