Nostalgia time: MS-DOS memory management!
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Why were you loading a mouse driver to play doom with anyway?
Lol you are so right! I remember needing to load it in high memory for something, but you're right, doom was cursor keys only because there was no up or down!
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The joy of going from 4mb to 8 in order to run Doom 2
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220, 1, 5
Coulda sworn it was the other way around, the irq being 5 and the i/o port being 220
The main ones I remember are:
Doublemem and LH (Load High) for the drivers. I remember having a CD drive which caused me nothing but pain when it came to games requiring >600Kb saying that though I learned a lot about DOS and it's helped me out many times now.
M.
Doublemem and LH (Load High) for the drivers. I remember having a CD drive which caused me nothing but pain when it came to games requiring >600Kb saying that though I learned a lot about DOS and it's helped me out many times now.
M.
Unfortunately I was a little too young to experience it properly but I do remember my dad bringing home a 486 DX2 66 and messing around with config.sys and autoexec.bat. I'm sure the CPU was made by Cryix.
Not long after he bought home a floppy disk containing a shareware version of "something called Duke Nukem", god did that blow me away at the time.
As a software engineer it pains me to hear 'architects' shouting "oh just give the JVM a 2GB heap, that will be enough". They should learn proper memory management, like they would have had to back in the day!
Not long after he bought home a floppy disk containing a shareware version of "something called Duke Nukem", god did that blow me away at the time.
As a software engineer it pains me to hear 'architects' shouting "oh just give the JVM a 2GB heap, that will be enough". They should learn proper memory management, like they would have had to back in the day!
Now that is something I remember messing about with to get Aces of the Pacific working on my parents first PC, Gateway 386 DX66 with I think 4Mb
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Yeah, those were the days when people wanted to work in IT for the money.
Oh how things change
Oh how things change
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I remember a game called MAX, Mechanized assault and exploration.
Was a fantastic game!! But the system I was running on required a crap load of memory management inorder to get it running.
Not to mention IRQ stuff, and the fact I had to sort out soundblaster emulation due to not having a soundblaster card.
I remember when I was a massive noob, I'm talking a child, 10\11. I didnt know much about bat files, etc. And I spent ages editing autoexec.bak not understanding why I couldnt get windows 3.1 to run automatically!!
BUT I HAVE PUT WIN AT THE END OF AUTOEXEC.BAK!! WHY WONT YOU RUN AUTOMATICALLY!!!
Was a fantastic game!! But the system I was running on required a crap load of memory management inorder to get it running.
Not to mention IRQ stuff, and the fact I had to sort out soundblaster emulation due to not having a soundblaster card.
I remember when I was a massive noob, I'm talking a child, 10\11. I didnt know much about bat files, etc. And I spent ages editing autoexec.bak not understanding why I couldnt get windows 3.1 to run automatically!!
BUT I HAVE PUT WIN AT THE END OF AUTOEXEC.BAK!! WHY WONT YOU RUN AUTOMATICALLY!!!
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So true!!!
Geoff Crammonds F1 GP was a bit of a ball ache to get enough memory. I think I had to resort to special floppy boot disks to be able to start that.
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Jesus, it's a thread full of granddads
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i spent many a afternoon making bootdisks for dos games when I was single digit age, I remmber the glee of getting Grandprix 1 CDrom version to work finaly
Jesus, it's a thread full of granddads
It's full of DOS veterans who don't need to be told where the start button is.
Novell Netware.
I got banned for 1 week from my college course because one of the kid son my course was a hacker, and he found my log-in details to my user area then proceeded to put a file called "how to hack Novell Netware networks" there.
Lol.
The network guys didn't believe it wsn't me.
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Ah the good ol days, my special Doom boot disk was my first, good times, I also remember using special characters to obscure my files as the admins management software couldn't deal with them.
486 sx2 50mhz was my first other than the 386 sx25 laptop with a monochrome liquid matrix screen. I still have my qemm disks X-WING, Tie Fighter cd's and the original boot disk that came with the X-wing cd. Along with many other original games of the time, Simon the saucerer, full throttle, san n max, Dott, pirates, just to name a few 
happy days!
happy days!