Base memory

[phil87]

Does amyone know how to increase your base memory? Im on windows 98

 

[FireBall]

Hm.. what do you mean by 'base' memory?

If RAM, then you can probably buy a new chip or two and put them in, depending on your MotherBoard, you'll need diffrent types of RAM...

If its hard drive memory, then you can put in a new hard drave as slave, or change the one you have currently.

 

[phil87]

Im trying to run this old dos game but it says insufficient base memory I was wondering if there was any settings you could change to make it run

 

[marioh]

This may help with your particular problem :
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/Q253/9/12.ASP&NoWebContent=1

 

[bobgote]

if you're running through command prompt (MS DOS window) i believe you can right click and change properties. however, i can't in XP, so can't check this.

can you just shutdown - restart in MS Dos mode?

 

[Turner]

Do a google of DosBox, it's a Dos emulator that works well with Windows.

 

[Rheinmetall]

MS-DOS Startup disk. Not very realistic possibility.

 

[raen]

I have MS-DOS Boot disk, and I have no problems I have 624KB of Base memory with that

one of the "magic" instructions in config.sys:

devicehigh=a:\dostools\emm386.exe RAM D=48

What you have to do is create a boot disk in control panel-> system.

then you change your autoexec.bat e config.sys, I give my examples, not equal to yours for sure but its similar:

Autoexec.bat:

@echo off
SET DOS_SBE=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;a:\DOSTOOLS\SBDOS;a:\DOSTOOLS
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET CTSYN=c:\windows
lh a:\DOSTOOLS\SBDOS\SBEINIT.COM > c:\sblive.txt
rem lh a:\dostools\MSCDEX.EXE /D:warlock /V /M:1
lh a:\mouse\ctm-pt.exe > c:\mouse.txt
rem keyb po,,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\keyboard.sys
lh keyb po

Config.sys:

files=60
DOS=HIGH,UMB
Device=a:\dostools\Himem.Sys
devicehigh=a:\dostools\emm386.exe RAM D=48
rem devicehigh=a:\dostools\ibmidecd.sys /D:warlock
rem device=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\display.sys con=(ega,,1)
rem Country=351,850,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\country.sys


But one thing that help its to have mouse and CDrom drivers that dont spend much memory, I use ctm for mouse driver and it spends only 3 KB!!

Running:

Creative SB16 Emulation Driver, Version 4.05
Copyright(c) 1996-2000, Creative Technology Ltd., All Rights Reserved.

Creative Audio @ Port a000, IRQ 10
Initialization Complete.


CuteMouse v1.9 [FreeDOS]
Instalado em porta PS/2


MEM:


Nome Total / Convencional / Superior Memory
-------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------------
SYSTEM 21,072 (21K) / 10,896 (11K) / 10,176 (10K)
HIMEM 1,168 (1K) / 1,168 (1K) / 0 (0K)
EMM386 4,320 (4K) / 4,320 (4K) / 0 (0K)
COMMAND 7,168 (7K) / 0 (0K) / 7,168 (7K)
SBEINIT 4,736 (5K) / 0 (0K) / 4,736 (5K)
CTM-PT 3,328 (3K) / 0 (0K) / 3,328 (3K)
KEYB 6,944 (7K) / 0 (0K) / 6,944 (7K)

Free 678,640 (663K) 638,736 (624K) 39,904 (39K)

MEM Resume

Tipo de memória Total Used Free
---------------- ----------- ----------- -----------
Convencional 655,360 16,624 638,736
Superior 72,256 32,352 39,904
---------------- ----------- ----------- -----------
Total de memória 536,395,776 4,028,688 532,367,088

Tamanho do maior programa executável 638,720 (624K)
Maior bloco de memória superior livre 39,552 (39K)

 

[raen]

ooops, to delete by moderators.