because Interplay decided EMS was needed for their games.
Im a dummy but can UMB and ems not work together? I'm under the impression I need the UMB line and not disable EMS
This is only EMM386 from DOS5, i think the only switches I have are On|off|auto and something about a weitek coprocessor. I think the DOS6 emm386 gives you more options like youre suggesting
Yes it is, still fun to play for a quickie
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And just to keep things updated here is where the setting stand now, config.sys and autoexec if it even matters to the memory
LH your SB16 programs.
Will do.
Also general dummy question, Dos will NOT load without a boot disk inserted, even with Windows Installed. The disk has config and autoexec on it, but there's also a copy at C:\
The autoexec on A: points to the file on C: but does Dos even load the config.sys at C? I keep editing both just in case.
just use memmaker if you’re too retarded to figure it out yourself
> The autoexec on A: points to the file on C:
if it says C:\whatever then it will load it from C:
if it says A:\whatever then it loads it from A
if it doesn't specify a path, it runs it from the drive it's booting from by default, then will search in the PATH variable, in the order of the directories listed
>but does Dos even load the config.sys at C?
it loads config.sys from the drive it's booting from
>Dos will NOT load without a boot disk inserted
you mean C drive's dos? did you sys the C drive properly? or did you insert a line in autoexec.bat that automatically starts windows so you never see the DOS prompt?
Try an EMM386.EXE /? from the command line to get the switches.
ok lets see if I can figure this out:
If I boot without the disk it gives me a non-system disk error
if I load into win31 remove the disk and exit to dos it will give me errors.
I did a clean install of DOS5 first followed by Win31 after letting it edit the config and autoexec as needed
The autoexec on the disk simply says echo off $p$g then points to C:\autoexec
The config.sys on the disk doesnt point to C:\config.sys though
like i said here this is early emm386 with only on/off/auto as switches.
and according to MEM I have 32MB of available XMS memory that isnt being used, but I dont know how to activate it or how it could help me