Re: [ProgSoc] DOS games under os/2

["Han-Dat Luc" <han-dat.luc@nospam.neis.com.au>]

>->I want to play dos games under os/2. However, when I start an os/2 dos
>->session, it doesn't have enough memory to run them. I'm not sure the
>->games will work under os/2 dos anyway, but I don't get a chance to see.
>->
>
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>->
>->As you can see, it only gives me 2mb of memory. The pc I'm using has
>->16mb.
>
>okay, create yourself a dos session (using the program template, or copy
>the existing dos full screen), then right click on it and select settings,
>then goto the page that says "DOS Settings" or "DOS memory settings", find
>virtual memory, and bump up your ems or xms or whatever you want...(those
>instructions are pretty vague, to be precise i'll have to look at my os/2
>box at work, if you can't figure it out from that, mail me tomorrow)..


it might as well be that you only have 556K conventional available to DOS.

try changing the field which says base memory or conventional memory to 640
which is not the default in OS/2.

Hd
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