Have you tried running it in DOSBox to see what happens? DOSBox reports more conventional memory free than normal DOS I think.

uhm disable ems in the configfile
the rest should be okay
ems=false in dosbox.conf (look for ems=true)
but I think it doesn't really matter. it should just work. if it doesn;t then you are out of luck

Did you actually try it ?

HunterZ wrote:

Have you tried running it in DOSBox to see what happens? DOSBox reports more conventional memory free than normal DOS I think.

yes. more than possibly free in real dos actually.

Heh, they wanted to have as much memory as possible and used smartdrive disk cache. Morons. 😁

My config would be as follows..

DEVICE = c:\dos\himem.sys
DEVICE = c:\dos\emm386.exe RAM {never liked including/excluding. EMM386 is a poor excuse for a 386 EMS mem. manager}
DOS = high, umb
FILES = 30
BUFFERS = 20,0
FCBS = 1 {not usually needed except for some very old programs}
BREAK = off
rem DEVICE = c:\dos\smartdrv.sys 4000
SHELL = c:\command.com /p {who needs more environment space than default?}

God. How I miss the good ole' ms-dos crappy memory management days. What a nightmare... 😁

eL_PuSHeR, it looks like bubba is including those ranges for use as UMBs, as he has NOEMS set for emm386. Also, how many bytes was the default environment for command.com?

I think the default environment space for command.com was 256 but I am not sure right now.