appiah4 wrote:

tayyare wrote:

Just a nitpick that I just realized: MODE is not resident so no need for LH as far as I can remember (and LH is enough, no need for loadhigh 😊 )

It's a matter of taste of course, but I also suggest ncache and ndos (from Norton Utilities 8.0) instead of command.com and smartdrv, their conventional memory footprints are considerably less than their MS-DOS counterparts.

I didn't know that about MODE, I will change that. LOADHIGH is just a habbit, I think it looks cleaner this way.

Is NDOS 100% compatible with software, for example protected mode games etc?

As far as I can remember, and considering my own sample size(*) of games, yes. But I do remember always using ndos (from 6, 7 and 8 versions of NU) during the times, and has no memories of problems. We were not lazy then, and using many different versions of config.sys/autoexec.bat pairs for many different purposes, so I'm not really sure about that past time.

(*) I still play only a few pure dos games anymore, but I don't have any problems with:

X-Wing
TIE Fighter
Dark Forces
Doom
Duke Nukem 3D
Quake