On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 15:35, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Thursday 01 April 2004 10:52 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > I agree completely, Jose. I'm in the process of doing the same thing as > > you are; formatting the drive for FAT32 and installing 98 again. After > > all, there's alot of nostalgia involved with Windows. > > Nostalgia. Try going back to DOS.
I've got a dos box here, my friend; I still do memory management with the config.sys and autoexec.bat to keep in practice. I enjoy it. One reason I do keep it is so that I can try to find the latest sound hardware that's also backwardly compatible. The challenge is to try to keep everything as up to date as possible while at the same time not breaking any of the old dos games I used to play. Case in point is Elder Scrolls Arena, the first edition (Daggerfall was next, and then Morrowind). Here is a game that requires a contiguous 620k dos conventional memory area because of a memory leak that crashes it after about 5 hours or so. Daggerfall, another dos game, has a similar problem. Both games need contiguous areas of conventional memory in order to work at maximum. This requires that all dos drivers be loaded high, if possible. I found out the hard way that in recent years, the behavior of the upper memory area on new mobos has changed. With some mobos it is difficult to make efficient use of the upper memory area for loading dos device drivers. Some sound cards cannot be used unless they are at particular interrupts and use specific DMA channels. This is not a functional problem with the sound cards, it is a problem with the flexibility and adaptability of old dos games. LX
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