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minus-squareradix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 months ago SET Blaster=A220 I7 D1 H5 P330 T6 Remember having stacks of boot floppies for each game so you could optimize memory allocation depending on the need?
minus-squareAlbbi@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoThis game requires EMS memory to be allocated, and this other game requires XMS memory to be allocated! Hold on, gotta edit my AUTOEXEC.BAT.
minus-squareSharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoSome of us automated that shit. There were times when writing batch files was more fun than playing some of the shitty games I had back then.
minus-squareetherphon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoAh yes because some things needed eXtended memory and some needed exPanded memory, and some things didn’t like drivers being loaded into high memory and some things didn’t like other things to be on certain ports or interrupts haha.
minus-squareblazeknave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoStill suffix my paradox games’ run commands in steam
minus-squareMalfeasant@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoLolol stacks of boot floppies, what a casual. I had custom config.sys and autoexec.bat with a boot menu for various configurations.
Remember having stacks of boot floppies for each game so you could optimize memory allocation depending on the need?
This game requires EMS memory to be allocated, and this other game requires XMS memory to be allocated! Hold on, gotta edit my AUTOEXEC.BAT.
Some of us automated that shit.
There were times when writing batch files was more fun than playing some of the shitty games I had back then.
Ah yes because some things needed eXtended memory and some needed exPanded memory, and some things didn’t like drivers being loaded into high memory and some things didn’t like other things to be on certain ports or interrupts haha.
Still suffix my paradox games’ run commands in steam
Lolol stacks of boot floppies, what a casual. I had custom config.sys and autoexec.bat with a boot menu for various configurations.