On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 5:20 AM Michał Dec via Freedos-user <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I have a couple games that don't work out of the box on my setup. It's > intentionally not using JemmEx and Jemm386, because these can cause > instability in some games. > > After loading SHSUCDX and UDVD2 and setting up my sound card with CTCM, > I'm left with 555KiB of free memory. For most games this is fine because > they either require less or run in an extender which gives them access > to way more memory. But this is not enough to run these games: > [..] > > These games require anywhere between 564 and 600 KiB of free memory.
You can write a custom FDAUTO.BAT to not load certain things. For example, I have a custom FDAUTO.BAT that doesn't load CDROM.BAT and a few other things. It literally only sets some variables and loads FDAPM. Here's my FDAUTO.BAT: (I'm using the default FDCONFIG.SYS because that works well for me) :: @ECHO OFF :: :: PATH C:\freedos\bin :: set NLSPATH=C:\freedos\nls :: set HELPPATH=C:\freedos\help :: set TEMP=C:\freedos\temp :: set TMP=%TEMP% :: set LANG=en :: set TZ=utc :: :: set DIRCMD=/o:gne /y :: :: if %CONFIG% == 5 goto END :: :: FDAPM /apmdos :: :: alias ls=DIR /w /b /l :: alias shutdown=FDAPM /poweroff :: alias reboot=FDAPM /warmboot :: :: :END And here's my memory usage when I boot: :: C:\>mem :: :: Memory Type Total Used Free :: ---------------- -------- -------- -------- :: Conventional 639K 22K 617K :: Upper 0K 0K 0K :: Reserved 385K 385K 0K :: Extended (XMS) 31,616K 307K 31,309K :: ---------------- -------- -------- -------- :: Total memory 32,640K 714K 31,926K :: :: Total under 1 MB 639K 22K 617K :: :: Total Expanded (EMS) 8,800K (9,011,200 bytes) :: Free Expanded (EMS) 8,192K (8,388,608 bytes) :: :: Largest executable program size 617K (631,360 bytes) :: FreeDOS is resident in the high memory area. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
