config.sys HELP!

[Platypus]

I think General Winters has hit on the solution with the requirement for 2.7 MB of EMS memory - the comment I had seen about it using XMS was certainly wrong.

The specifications indicate the game should run quite happily on the 100MHz DOS/Win3.11 system, whether it is a 486DX4-100 or a Pentium 100. But I'd suggest the game should be run from true DOS on this system rather than a Windows DOS session.

I'm not sure if GW's suggestions about the configuration files relate to your Win98 system or not, he makes reference to features of the Win3.11 files.

Either way, if EMS is set up properly in DOS 6, I suspect you should be up and running, but doing it on the Win98 system may involve less fiddling with configuration files. How fast is the Celeron in that machine? At least it has plenty of memory.

The specifications say the system will need at least 575K of conventional memory available and 2.7M of EMS (Expanded Memory) for which EMM386.EXE has to be set up. I'm a little puzzled by the MEM report, was it done from a Windows DOS prompt or true DOS? It looks a bit like maybe a Windows DOS prompt report, if so, close Windows back to the C: prompt and type MEM from there, post if the figures are different. It also seems MEMMAKER has been run on the system, which may account for the odd HIMEM/EMM386 line.

If you'd like to go for setting up the 100MHz system with EMS memory and trying it that way, let us know.