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It's amusing in a dark and cynical way that this was the second time they'd managed to screw up in regards to EMS/XMS. JEMM, integrated into Ultima 7, made tha
by Firehawke 6y ago
It's amusing in a dark and cynical way that this was the second time they'd managed to screw up in regards to EMS/XMS.
JEMM, integrated into Ultima 7, made that particular title hellish to get working. You needed to find a mouse driver that was small enough to fit in conventional memory because JEMM wouldn't work with EMM386.SYS or QEMM386.SYS loaded and would not let you play if either were loaded or you didn't have enough conventional memory.
Their best efforts to make the game friendly to people who didn't have the technical knowledge to deal with EMS/XMS actually made it significantly harder for non-technical users AND technical users alike!
- aidenn0 6y agoJEMM was used by Origin in pretty much all the games of that era, including Strike Commander, Privateer and WC Armada. However, as it goes with anything game related, there wasn't a single version of JEMM (just like there wasn't a single version of e.g. Sierra's SCI runtime), so they all had different features and quirks. I believe they mostly shared the same VCPI interface though, as MyJEMM[1] was reported to work with most of those games despite being developed specifically for Privateer. 1: https://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/MyJEMM https://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/MyJEMM
- SV_BubbleTime 6y agoWing Commander Armada was such good times. Buddy and I got half the keyboard and it was intense. Loved that game. Sad to only see one mention of it here, but at least I know it wasn’t a fever dream I had.
- aidenn0 6y agoI got a game-port Y adapter so we could play with 2 joysticks. It was a blast.