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Re: QUARTERDECK QEMM products ... Good? or Garbage?

I understand. My prized DOS box is actually an AMD 486DX4-120 (love that 40MHz bus) with an SB16 and Diamond Stealth VLB - an exact replica of my very best 486 I had built back in the day. The machine I'm playing with right now is the AOpen system in my signature, however. I took out the SB16 and …

Re: QUARTERDECK QEMM products ... Good? or Garbage?

In my experience, there wasn't a single DOS configuration that QEMM produced that proved to be stable. QEMM is the most crash-happy memory manager of all time, and though it's always so tempting to use it, once you start gaming with it, you'll be crashing repeatedly. DOS gaming crashes QEMM (or …

Re: QUARTERDECK QEMM products ... Good? or Garbage?

...Even though (MemMaker) works ok and stable, it does not give you a big plus. QEMM frees up much more conventional memory, but some games do have a problem with it. The latest version released for DOS is v8.x, with the basic release disks v8.00 and update release disks to v8.03. You can install …

Re: QUARTERDECK QEMM products ... Good? or Garbage?

As far as I recall QEMM was way better than MS EMM386 What does Qemm did beter, what EMM386 cant? Yeah I know, huge bump. But seriously, I have no idea why that pisses so many people off for no reason whatsoever. In my experience, QEMM is miraculously fantastic at being able to load pretty much …

Re: Anyone using Direct Access?

Joined just to respond to this. :-) I don't think I've heard this product even mentioned since Windows 95 was released. Used Direct Access 5.1 for DOS for many years, great menu system. I even customized all the colors, etc. Used it for everything, greatest product ever for DOS, secondary only to …

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