Re: Hymem & DLL
The way your bois does thing (or the way i understand the way it does
them) is weird...It sounded like the A: drive is (except when its the
HD) what ever drive you boot from...That is the first souce of my
confusion....the next was the programs that i didnt know what were... I
use configs like yours when i play privateer 1..it needs 630k base and
in pure dos that is a hard thing to get with sound & video drivers...
=)...i would make a diff boot batch file for each config...then just
call a new batch file so that each one has only the commands for the
load you want...as for the config.sys i dont think you can have differnt
ones and a call the one you want(i might be wrong..i never tried so i
dont know)...there is a program that comes with real sound blasters that
let you load drivers from a promt..dont need to boot to get them...this
would be perfect for you(or so i think)...if i find it ill post it....
Grape
>Thanks Grape,
>
>I tidied up a much more complex config.sys and bunged some "high" bits
into
>the [common] section without thinking. It's remedied.
>
>stacks/high - Windoze/DOS steals some unnecessary default allocation of
>memory here if you omit this setting, so this is me telling it to sod
off.
>
>fcbs - Pretty much obsolete and covered by the files setting now. MS
sets a
>default of 4 if you don't specify. 1 is the minimum allowed so 1 is
what I
>set.
>
>noauto - (Extract from the W95 CD-ROM ResKit HelpFile - Windows 95
>automatically reserves memory in the UMA unless CONFIG.SYS contains the
>entry dos=noauto or if HIMEM.SYS and EMM386 are not loaded). Dunno if
this
>applies to W98, it doesn't seem to contain the amount of DOS info that
W95
>provided. I don't want Windoze EVER to take my configuration for
granted,
>and this worked in W95, so on the principal that if it ain't bust don't
fix
>it....
>
>The /p options in VIDE_CDD.SYS do God knows what, but they were
defaults
>loaded by the installation so I didn't tamper. The CD-ROM stuff is only
>loaded in pure DOS anyway as it's there in a DOSBox by default.
>
>SHSUCDX is a better than MSCDEX utility. It's on Simtel, uses less
memory,
>can be unloaded at the command line, other stuff.
>
>DOS32A is a programming utility, not anything to do with the OS.
>
>The shell bit is because 4DOS is hugely better than command.com (which
you
>will get lumbered with in DOS if you don't specify otherwise) and well
worth
>a few more bytes. It loads into XMS so minimal use of basemem, and has
a
>global history/alias/environment accessible from any DOS shell (Windows
>DOSBpx too). Saves using any number of other separate utilities (No
need for
>DOSKEY, extremely complex aliasing techniques, huge range of internal
>commands, environment and other variables built in that allow amazing
>scripting/batch capabilities - you can tell I quite LIKE it...)
>
>.98 extensions allow me to keep track of which OS utility I'm using.
>Sometimes I use some OPENDOS stuff, and MS doesn't seem to care about
>extensions in device drivers, so in DOSMode I could be using
>DEVICE=Whatever.702 or etc. It works.
>
>Normally I just boot into Windoze98 by default, but if I', in the
Doo-Doos I
>boot DOS. I have to bugger about with A: DriveLetters because normally
my
>BIOS is set to read ZipDrive as DriveA and Floppy as DriveB. It can
also
>boot from CD-ROM, which then becomes DriveA, but that's a rarely needed
>facility so I've not complicated things more than they already are.
>
>UKKEYB is a UK-Specific Keyboard driver that only uses about 400 bytes
>memory, rather than the 7k needed by MS-DOS equivalent. Us foreigners
need
>something in there or we get lumbered with US keyboards in DOS/DOSBox
>
>I don't need the POV stuff all the time, but rather than further
complicate
>stuff I leave the variables in. 4DOS leaves me about 620k free basemem,
so I
>figure I can be a leedle bit extravagant.
>
>All the %D0$ Drive letters basically allow me path access to my Tools
>directory whether I've booted from Zip or HD. It's duped on the Zip
ready
>for the bad times that sometimes come to us all. The Boots folder is
also of
>course duped.
>
>Anyway, thanks again for the CONFIG.SYS stuff. Silly me with the
[common]
>section. I'm not sure I'll drop the NOEMS in favour of RAM switches in
>EMM386, but I'll suck it and see.
>
>Always open to tweaks that do something useful. Climb in with more as
you
>see fit. What works with one person don't always work elsewhere, but we
can
>all use PLENTY of knowledge. Not a little of course, as that's a
dangerous
>thing someone said. Probably Billy Gates. (Alexander Pope? I forget)
>
>Warmest regards.
>
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