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Rise your hand if you remember how long you had to tinker around to get enough EMS to load the game plus sound card drivers loaded into memory when being in DOS

Rise your hand if you remember how long you had to tinker around to get enough EMS to load the game plus sound card drivers loaded into memory when being in DOS! :-D

sumtechguy 11mo ago
Wait play the game? I am fiddling my config.sys and autoexec.bat just right and making sure I could get to 610k. Using 4DOS to have a pick a path adventure of which configuration to load as it was starting up to run each game. Then I might play a game here and there.
dark-star 11mo ago
the game didn't run with EMS. You needed XMS
- TheAmazingRace 11mo ago
  Fun fact. Ultima 7 was one of the few commercial titles ever made that used "Unreal" mode. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_mode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_mode It wasn't particularly popular as it couldn't play nice with protected mode environments.
  - dark-star 11mo ago
    Other than Ultima 7 I only know of Zone66 as another game that used Unreal mode. Early versions also didn't like v86 mode but later versions added support for DPMI or in some other way started to play nicely with EMM386
boredhedgehog 11mo ago
Oh yeah, I had to unload the CD driver and move the mouse driver to himem just for this...
glonq 11mo ago
I recall that it was possible to squeeze a disk cache in too, which made a nice difference for performance.
NuclearPM 11mo ago
Raise
ajxs 11mo ago
I definitely remember the collection of boot disks I used to load the right autoexec.bat/config.sys settings for the Ultima and Wing Commander games, and how long I spent tuning these settings. I was just a kid then, but I remember the whole exercise being pretty complicated!
tofuziggy 11mo ago
Haha this XD... I couldn't figure it out on my own and asked my Mom for help, luckily she was able to get it running for me :D
khedoros1 11mo ago
I remember getting "The Complete Ultima VII" on CD and never figuring out how to get it running. I think I've still got the box, but I think the disc has been missing for years. I bought it on GOG some time ago, though.

Rise your hand if you remember how long you had to tinker around to get enough EMS to load the game plus sound card drivers loaded into memory when being in DOS! :-D

sumtechguy 11mo ago

Wait play the game? I am fiddling my config.sys and autoexec.bat just right and making sure I could get to 610k. Using 4DOS to have a pick a path adventure of which configuration to load as it was starting up to run each game. Then I might play a game here and there.

dark-star 11mo ago

the game didn't run with EMS. You needed XMS

TheAmazingRace 11mo ago
Fun fact. Ultima 7 was one of the few commercial titles ever made that used "Unreal" mode. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_mode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_mode It wasn't particularly popular as it couldn't play nice with protected mode environments.
- dark-star 11mo ago
  Other than Ultima 7 I only know of Zone66 as another game that used Unreal mode. Early versions also didn't like v86 mode but later versions added support for DPMI or in some other way started to play nicely with EMM386

boredhedgehog 11mo ago

Oh yeah, I had to unload the CD driver and move the mouse driver to himem just for this...

glonq 11mo ago

I recall that it was possible to squeeze a disk cache in too, which made a nice difference for performance.

NuclearPM 11mo ago

Raise

ajxs 11mo ago

I definitely remember the collection of boot disks I used to load the right autoexec.bat/config.sys settings for the Ultima and Wing Commander games, and how long I spent tuning these settings. I was just a kid then, but I remember the whole exercise being pretty complicated!

tofuziggy 11mo ago

Haha this XD... I couldn't figure it out on my own and asked my Mom for help, luckily she was able to get it running for me :D

khedoros1 11mo ago

I remember getting "The Complete Ultima VII" on CD and never figuring out how to get it running. I think I've still got the box, but I think the disc has been missing for years. I bought it on GOG some time ago, though.