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From: adam@tucson.princeton.edu (Adam Justin Thornton)
Subject: Re: Trying to install Lost Treasures under Dos 6.22
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In article <3hm38a$shl@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>,
Cindy <gourmet@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
>We had this same problem.  Unfortunately, the Setver command doesn't work.
>What you need to do is add a "device=c:\dos\ansi.sys" (or something like
>that) to your config.sys file.  Now we can play without a problem.
>As a side suggestion, at about the same time we figured this out, we found
>the command in DOS 6.22 that allows menu-type config.sys/autoexec.bat 
>files.  This has come in very handy, and now we've got most of our games 
>set up that way, and each had required a separate boot disk.  It makes 
>life lots easier.

Or you could buy OS/2, and play as many Infocom sessions as you want, all
at the same time, and not have to diddle with different config.sys blocks
in that horrid excuse for a memory management menu (which should be
completely superfluous) that DOS supplies.  Just tweak the settings in the
DOS Settings notebook (well, you don't need to: even the big games fit in
512K, but you could specify text-only and get 724K or so free) and you're
off.

Or you could get Linux and ZIP.  Same effect.  And you'd have a real OS.

And a development environment (as soon as Dave puts up the new TADS 2.2.0.5
for Linux) that doesn't have those awful DOS crocks.

Adam
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