Christian Groessler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/15/21 10:47 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Lu, 15 mar 21, 20:24:56, Sven Hartge wrote:
>>> (I still vividly remember using memmaker and manual ordering the drivers >>> in config.sys and autoexec.bat to shave another 2KB from the lower >>> memory so the IPX driver would fit so Doom would run.) >> For me it was Warcraft :) >> And for some game (possibly also Warcraft) I had to pretend having a >> sound card by listing the driver in config.sys, otherwise it wouldn't >> even start. > For me it was "Worms". > And I was using QEMM and Quarterdeck Manifest to get maximal memory in > the lower 640k. Ooooh, look at Mr Fancy here, cheating with 3rd party products to get ahead :) I'll throw in the special "maximise XMS memory boot disk" I had for Comanche because that game just *hated* emm386.exe but without EMM, stuff like "LOADHIGH" to push drivers into the UMB was not available and I was too lazy to add another branch to my already convoluted config.sys boot menu. S° -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
