yeah, that one. it also loads the ctsyn driver, which appears to be needed with sb32 cards... what a mess. wish that piece of junk was recent enough to run dosbox... or had a regular joe's sb16. it was fun messing with dos again tho', it gave me this nostalgic feeling, you know? groovy. i think i …

whoa... guys, you rock. it's gonna be two weeks until i can test this stuff out, but i'm sure i'll be able to get the most out of that rig now. with that i should reach around 615-520k of free conv - maybe i'll even crack an attempt at ems memory - AND get the sound up and working with some thinking …

well lookie that, it worked without messing with alternate emm386 and himem versions: i infact managed to uncork about 585k or so of conventional memory. looks like i just needed to get my memory refreshed about the ol' tricks, thanks. but now there's another problem: the sound card is pulling …

got that one covered. well... i guess i'll try with that memory manager, but if i can get himem to load into high memory i'm good to go without extra stuff. i'll let you know how it went, thanks you guys.

well, they do have an alternate memory manager, but are we sure it's safe to use on standard dos? i mean, it's not gonna kwak anything up, is it? as i specified it's not my system, if it was i'd try it right away... but i gotta take precautions here. memory managers can be quite catty, you know 😜

hunh? i thought dos was unable to load stuff into the upper and high memory blocks unless a memory manager was loaded, never knew they removed that quirk from 7. the relocation of the monochrome segment was a nice touch anyway, good work ;) i'll try some of that stuff when i put my hands on his pc …

hmm... well, i figured, since emm386 DOES emulate ems memory. mmm, would be fun to see if that could be done for conv too... why nobody ever thought of that, i wonder? but anyway. as i said it's first version's himem, maybe it was just THAT shoddy... i'll have to look into these hijinks a little …

yo. you know, i was wondering: i'm in the process of game-enabling a friend's old rig, and i ran into the usual conventional memory problem, with an odd addition: himem.sys is cloggin' around 45k of that gilded portion of memory, i'm not exactly sure why... so i have a few questions: what might be …

know what might have been, the tweaks omega did. prolly he implemented the fast z-clear, which is by default disabled, nothing a good tweaker can't circumvent. yay, now i can play privateer 2 without screwing up my windows :D there's still the movie aspect ratio problem with that one, circumvented …

yo, i ran te snap diagnostic program, and something funny happened... it did his vesa stuff and when i came back to windows the garbling came back. this leads me to believe it might be a driver issue (omega's modified catalyst 3.7). hmmm, come to think about it, it used to happen also when fiddling …

hi, i'm having some probs with vesa on my comp... video card's an ati radeon 9000, and i tested it with three games so far. i ran wing commander 3 and privateer 2, they both work fine, but when i return to windows (98) screen areas get garbled when i do stuff, the other game's tetripz, a weird …

hmm. i had a botched version alright, the one from the underdogs works... somewhat. it's booting up, but rather than the intro tune i get a short noise and the game goes on with no sound at all (this under dosbox). meh, i'll try later under win98. thanks for all the help you guys!

hmm, fresh news eh? so fresh not all mirrors have it:D anyway, i got it but still no luck... guess i have a botched version. i'll nose around the web to see if i can find an alternate, thanks anyway 😀

okie, since noone posted anything about this i might as well do it... earlier i tried running an old dos game, nyet 3... kinda like a fancier version of tetris, and all i got was this funny runtime error 002 at blah blah. i tried running ctbppat but it didn't fix it, report says it's written in …