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That's certainly one thing I don't miss about old DOS gaming, having specific boot disks around with the proper config.sys/autoexec.bat magic to make ornery gam

by mhd 9y ago

That's certainly one thing I don't miss about old DOS gaming, having specific boot disks around with the proper config.sys/autoexec.bat magic to make ornery games work -- base RAM, HMA, EMS, XMS etc.. I had to play some game without the mouse, as that cost precious kilobytes… But yeah, even when you moved drivers to the higher memory areas, there had to be the actual memory manager loaded to do that, so the full 640k wasn't really possible. And despite Origin games like Wing Commander and Ultima basically needing the next generation of PCs not released yet, they didn't really demand the impossible.

wott 9y ago
> That's certainly one thing I don't miss about old DOS gaming, having specific boot disks around with the proper config.sys/autoexec.bat magic to make ornery games work -- base RAM, HMA, EMS, XMS etc.. You could make menus items in the config.sys to chose between different options, you did not need several boot disks. I don't remember in which MS DOS version it was introduced (perhaps 5.0?), but that was the normal way to go after that.
- tigershark 9y ago
  DOS 6. In dos 5 you could only selectively load stuff in the autoexec.bat, not in the config.sys