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I remember getting into scripting creating a menu system that could boot with either mouse or keyboard drivers loaded, but not both, because falcon 3.0 require
by MrDarcy 3y ago
I remember getting into scripting creating a menu system that could boot with either mouse or keyboard drivers loaded, but not both, because falcon 3.0 required about 610K of conventional memory, leaving only about 30K for sound, joystick, and mouse drivers.
- sumtechguy 3y agolh and 4dos were my spirit guides for that
- discardedrefuse 3y agoYes! Learning to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat (from a book) for games was probably the catalyst that pushed me into IT.
- mark_undoio 3y agoI had a very tiring Christmas day (mostly tiring for my dad, though) putting together boot floppies for various games. Eventually I got really good at it - selecting what drivers were required and packing them efficiently into base and extended (I think that was it...) memory. Sometimes IIRC I'd swap boot disks around and discover extra features in games that only appeared with even more base memory.
- reneberlin 3y agoThat one brings back lovely memories! I totally forgot about that ...
- kderbe 3y ago602K (616,448 bytes) of free conventional memory. I looked it up in the manual ;) It's the only DOS game I played that needed >600K of conventional memory, and I too remember the struggle to free that much.