Subj : Re: Win98SE install?
To   : Tom Laermans
From : Greg Sears
Date : Mon Jun 12 2000 01:29 pm

* Echo: F-WIN32
* Date: 06-09-00 23:28
* Subj: Win98SE install?
******* TOM LAERMANS wrote IN a Message to ALAN ZISMAN *******

 TL> Hi Alan ...
   > At 07-Jun-00 19:18:06, Alan Zisman wrote to Charles Scaglione about
   > Re: Win98SE install?...

 AZ> WinME takes us a step back, by potentially requiring boot floppies
   > again. Luckily, far fewer games/applications need such kludges
   > anymore.

 TL> Unless you want to play an 'old' game... Blake Stone - Aliens of Gold
   > still requires 605K of free Conventional Memory free... *grmbl* ... I
   > had to patch about 10 files in Halloween Harry so it would run on a
   > pII 300... Now I remember why I still have some 386s here :)

 G-day  TOM LAERMANS, did you try the old fation AUTOEXEC.bat. . . . . .

@echo off
C:\PROGRA~1\NETWOR~1\MCAFEE~1\SCANPM.EXE /NOEXPIRE C:\
@IF ERRORLEVEL 1 PAUSE
SET SOUND=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\CTSND
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET DIRCMD= /o /p /l
SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\BITWARE\;D:\TOOLS\ZIP;
         D:\TOOLS\ARJ;D:\BWAVE;C:\PROGRA~1\SYMANTEC\PCANYW~1

CONFIG.sys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Buffers=30
Files=50
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM
DOS=HIGH, UMB

C:\>mem

Memory Type        Total       Used       Free
----------------  --------   --------   --------
Conventional          640K        32K       608K
Upper                  91K        91K         0K
Reserved              384K       384K         0K
Extended (XMS)     64,421K       149K    64,272K
----------------  --------   --------   --------
Total memory       65,536K       656K    64,880K

Total under 1 MB      731K       122K       608K

Total Expanded (EMS)                   63M (66,535,424 bytes)
Free Expanded (EMS)                    16M (16,777,216 bytes)

Largest executable program size       608K (622,784 bytes)
Largest free upper memory block         0K       (0 bytes)
MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area.

Computer is an IBM Clone. . . . . . . . . .
64 MEG, Pentium II 300 that plays OLD DOS base games very well. <GRin>

Try to use a *.pif. Two kinds allow to play in window98 or go-into
the dos mode if necessary. Works here. Keep computing. . . . . . .

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