Hi all,
I've been searching & reading for hours on this one and I am starting to get bogged down...
Basically I want to set up the most efficient system with the memory I currently have in my 5160. To begin with it has:
- Sixpakplus fully populated bringing it up to 640k conventional memory
- 2Mb of EMS courtesy of a Lo-Tech EMS card.
- Dos 5 (lowest version possible for me).
- Has an 80286 expansion card so might be able to run some device drivers written for 80286's.
At the moment all I have in the config.sys is the EMS driver and DOS=UMB. Autoexec.bat just has SET BLASTER=.....
I am still running out of base memory and have about 588k or so free. To run a specific game I am interested in I need about 600k or more free. I understand the memory models (EMS vs XMS vs UMB etc) but I am unclear on what I can load into what to save some conventional RAM.
What I think I am trying to do is get dos (including the shell) into EMS or the UMB in order to free up the base memory. I've looked at a few different programs (dosmax being one of them) but I am totally lost as most require QEMM as well.
Could someone that has done this sort of thing before help me out? Even better if you could supply an example config.sys/autoexec.bat.
Thanks as always!
I've been searching & reading for hours on this one and I am starting to get bogged down...
Basically I want to set up the most efficient system with the memory I currently have in my 5160. To begin with it has:
- Sixpakplus fully populated bringing it up to 640k conventional memory
- 2Mb of EMS courtesy of a Lo-Tech EMS card.
- Dos 5 (lowest version possible for me).
- Has an 80286 expansion card so might be able to run some device drivers written for 80286's.
At the moment all I have in the config.sys is the EMS driver and DOS=UMB. Autoexec.bat just has SET BLASTER=.....
I am still running out of base memory and have about 588k or so free. To run a specific game I am interested in I need about 600k or more free. I understand the memory models (EMS vs XMS vs UMB etc) but I am unclear on what I can load into what to save some conventional RAM.
What I think I am trying to do is get dos (including the shell) into EMS or the UMB in order to free up the base memory. I've looked at a few different programs (dosmax being one of them) but I am totally lost as most require QEMM as well.
Could someone that has done this sort of thing before help me out? Even better if you could supply an example config.sys/autoexec.bat.
Thanks as always!