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Don't forget one of the most important new utilities in DOS 6: Memmaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DOS_commands#MEMMAKER https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
by jbandela1 3y ago
Don't forget one of the most important new utilities in DOS 6: Memmaker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DOS_commands#MEMMAKER https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DOS_commands#MEMMAKER
It would help you change your configuration so that you maximized the amount of conventional memory. This was useful in getting games to run.
- alkonaut 3y agoI remember being the only kid who knew how to hand-craft your config.sys/autoexec.bat to play some games, and random people would call me saying they got my name of some friend of a friend.
- pjmlp 3y agoAnd DriveSpace, turning my 20 MB disk into a 40 MB, greatly appreciated as I couldn't afford buying a new disk at the time.
- ggambetta 3y agoThere was Stacker years before that :)
- stonogo 3y agoMicrosoft tried to license it, failed, and wound up licensing DoubleSpace instead. As usual, the utility being built into MS-DOS 6 pretty much destroyed competition in that space. Stacker's ace in the hole was their coprocessor card, which I coveted pretty hard..
- ralphc 3y agoWindows 95, 98 and ME can read DoubleSpace drives. If you get USB drives set up, which you can do with 95 and 98, and format the drive FAT, not FAT32, put the drive file on it, those versions of Windows will mount it.
- pjmlp 3y agoWhich I used in DR-DOS before moving into MS-DOS.
- Narishma 3y agoThat's discussed in the article.