-=> Quoting Dan Ceppa to Bruce Clark <=-

 BC> You must  also have  at least  1MB of  free memory  available on 
 BC> your system.   2MB of free memory is recommended for the fastest

 DC> I've got 496 MB.  Is that enough?  ;)  

I think when that manual was written, 4 to 8 MB was about as high 
as you got on a Win3.11 machine. 

 
 BC> system doesn't have it, DOS/4GW can use what is called a "virtual
 BC> memory swap file".  Simply put, it can create a disk file that is
 BC> treated as extra memory.

 DC> That temds me to believe that 4GW is extraneous...  

It only does that when there isn't enough real RAM to work with. 


 BC> Also read the BWAVE386.VMC for setting MINMEM, MAXMEM & VIRTUALSIZE. 
 
 BC> I have: 
 BC> 
 BC> MINMEM = 512
 
 BC> MAXMEM = 2048
 
 BC> VIRTUALSIZE = 2048

 DC> Just where are the docs for that located?  Somewhere in there seems 
 DC> to be a solution.   

BWAVE386.VMC is a text file containing instructions and configuration 
in one file. 

If you decide to modify it, I suggest you copy the original to either 
a safe place or a different name, in case something goes wrong. 

Go to the BlueWave directory and run the DOS4GW program (don't just 
click on it). This will give you an error, but will put the version 
number on screen. Mine is 1.97. 

Try an alternate way to load the combination: 

DOS4GW BWAVE386.EXE

Normally BlueWave has to load DOS4GW and then continue to load. 

It can load the other way though, I'm using it that way now. 

A lot of old large DOS games were required to be loaded that way. 


Bruce Clark 

 
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