This is a guide on using ems in dos.

With modern computers packed with packed with bios devices in rom.
It's getting harder to find space for the EMS Page frame.

I have been doing some research on the web and this is what I have come
up with so far.

It's is possible to adjust you ems manager to get ems to work a lot of the
time.

If your dos application uses LIM EMS version 4.0 then you could reduce the
ems page frame size to 16 K instead of 64k.

Meaning emm386 might be able to find a page frame in upper memory.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/78433

http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/artic … s9396/dos93.asp

I have been checking out command line switches for emm386.exe
and jemm.

If worst comes to worst; it looks like it might be possible to manually tell
these emm386 or jemm to set the ems page frame to conventional memory.

More info on getting emm386 to work:

MicroSoft Site:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/96759

On the WPDOS page they mention disabling devices in bios setup.

http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/emsxp.html

Such as disable USB Legacy Support, ethernet ect.

And if worst comes to worst I guess you could always use "ems magic".
It purposed to use quite a bit of memory to use thro.

http://www.phatcode.net/projects.php?id=102

If anyone else has any info to this please reply to this topic.