Gregy wrote:
>Gee..Bernie.....that looks neat.....please post your config.sys and
> autoexec.bat....I wanna get my box to look like that.....<g>,(but
>serious, so send them)...
Since I'm uncertain if this mailinglist will accept attachments I'll add
them inside the mail (at the bottom).
>YES..!! let us start a thread...you call it anything you want....I've
>just temporarily called it "system optimization".....first topic
>is optimize conventional memory.....then we can collect the thread and
>post it as an archive, and keep adding topics to it....then we don't
>have to be asking ( and answering) the same questions again and again.
But isn't this a little OT?
>But, some or us don't run mouseys....I run alpsey and need my
>amouse.com.
I don't sugegst that it's automatically run just that it's added and that
the user is notified if he/she doesn't have a mouse driver present.
>ADDED thought....there has gotta be a way to load EPPD..high...I
>mean, way up....above 1M....it's a driver, right?...so, there
>must be some way to get it running up there...
Now we are going outside the normal 16-bit DOS operation. I doubt there's
an easy way to do it.
Anyway my files (and a few things I would like everyone to read)...
c:\autoexec.bat:
@c:\dos\faster.bat s
c:\dos\faster.bat:
@copy c:\command.com %1:\command.com>nul
@set comspec=%1:\command.com>nul
@copy c:\dos\normal.bat %1:\normal.bat>nul
@%1:\normal.bat
c:\dos\normal.bat:
@echo off
prompt $e[0;59;"dir";13p$p$g
rem I added this the other day... hitting F2 does a "dir"
lh c:\dos\smartdrv.exe /U /N 32768 16384 /B:57344 >nul
lh c:\dos\dosmax\envimax /R- /P- >nul
PATH C:\DOS;C:\DOSUTIL;>nul
SET TEMP=c:\temp>nul
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 P330 T6>nul
SET SOUND=C:\SB16>nul
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E>nul
C:\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S>nul
C:\SB16\MIXERSET /P /Q>nul
c:\dos\ctmouse.com/1/M>nul
lh c:\dos\KEYB.com SV>nul
set config=>nul
c:\config.sys:
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE noems highscan
devicehigh=c:\dos\dosmax\dosmax.exe /C+ /R- /P- /M1
devicehigh=c:\dos\ansi.sys
rem shell=c:\shellmax.com /R- /P- c:\command.com /P
shell=C:\command.com/E:2048 /P
devicehigh=c:\dos\ramdrive.sys 56 128 2 /e
DOS=HIGH,UMB
Buffers=30
FILES=60
FCBS=4,4
STACKS=9,256
LASTDRIVE=Z
And I load my CD with this BATch file:
@lh c:\dos\devload c:\dos\atapi_cd.sys /MSCD001
@LH C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /S /D:MSCD001
I did notice that devload and/or my atapi driver doesn't load if there
isn't enough free high memmory. (I've changed the settings for SmartDrv
after my original message and now have very little high memmory available -
but on the other hand most things seem to have speed up a bit)
Also the two lines:
C:\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S>nul
C:\SB16\MIXERSET /P /Q>nul
might see a little useless but without these not all games will have sound :(
And ctmouse loads high if it can so there's no need in telling it to do so.
Hope this was usefull... (and if someone sees anything here that might
interfere with Arachnes on-line connection please inform me ASAP).
Oh, does anyone have a ATAPI driver that uses less than the 9 936 bytes
mine does?
