Last week or so I lost an ebay auction that included an 8 bit EMS board and no less than 3 8-bit scsi cards, with 2 hard-card's. I was going for the scsi cards, but I can't help but wonder, Just how useful is EMS, in 808X computer?
I understand the mechanics of EMS,XMS ram. My goal with my model 25 will be pre-vga gaming with a smattering of screwing around in IRC and the occasional network file transfer. (i'm planning on using a parallel<> Ethernet adapter) I was wondering just how much you can use EMS for. Can I put dos/drivers/etc into EMS? Basically freeing up as much of that 640k as possible. While on the subject, are there any pre-vga games that can utilize EMS? If I recall, Wolfenstein could, but it maybe a bad brain cell pulling tricks on me.
I understand the mechanics of EMS,XMS ram. My goal with my model 25 will be pre-vga gaming with a smattering of screwing around in IRC and the occasional network file transfer. (i'm planning on using a parallel<> Ethernet adapter) I was wondering just how much you can use EMS for. Can I put dos/drivers/etc into EMS? Basically freeing up as much of that 640k as possible. While on the subject, are there any pre-vga games that can utilize EMS? If I recall, Wolfenstein could, but it maybe a bad brain cell pulling tricks on me.