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echo: apogee
to: GARRY MUSSELMAN JR
from: MIKE HEGARTY
date: 1997-06-07 20:36:00
subject: Re: Duke 3D in Win95

 -=> Quoting Garry Musselman Jr to Mike Hegarty <=-
 MH>   You're right about getting robbed of memory. There is a bug in
 MH> Win95's OSR2 that dumps everything back into low memory whenever it
 MH> shells out to DOS. It doesn't matter what you have in config.sys; it
 MH> just ignores it. So my only option would seem to be booting into DOS,
 MH> but Duke keeps telling me I don't have enough memory to run it. I
 MH> don't understand this, as MEM /C shows that I have 645k of free
 MH> conventional mem., & total free mem. of almost 390mb! Yet, Duke still
 MH> says I need over 2mb more free memory. I give up!!
 GMJ> hello again. how much conventional memory do you have when you do a
 GMJ> mem/c and how much extended? another thing, do you have expanded
 GMJ> memory enabled? if its saying 645k conventional, thats good, but what
 GMJ> is your extended? ok talk to ya later.... -!-
 Hi Gary,
   Got my problem solved. I found a tip in Windows mag. that allows me
 to bypass the bug in Win95 OSR2. All I have to do is make another
 shortcut icon that starts a DOS program in DOS instead of Windows.
 This allows me to use a separate config.sys & autoexec file for Duke.
 Thanks for the help.
 Mike.
... Sorry, the Dog ate my Blue Wave packet.
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