This is dredging up some long-unused memories but you should be able to get a bit more memory by supplying the RAM parameter to emm386. Get yourself some upper

This is dredging up some long-unused memories but you should be able to get a bit more memory by supplying the RAM parameter to emm386. Get yourself some upper memory blocks (UMBs) - usable memory above the 640 K mark. DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS RAM HIGHSCAN (HIGHSCAN directs EMM386 to try harder to find upper memory blocks.) Then use FILESHIGH to set the file count. FILESHIGH=30 MEM should show you now have some upper memory (some of it now used by the files area), and slightly more conventional memory free.