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The Old New Thing: MS-DOS games in Win95

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First post, by SaxxonPike

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I love reading Raymond Chen's blog (also got his book) and I thought his posts about getting MS-DOS games and applications working on Windows 95 were really insightful:

[2015-12-04] Why Did Disabling Interrupts Cause Windows 95 to Hang?:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ … 204-00/?p=92281

[2016-03-28] Virtual Memory:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ … 328-00/?p=93204

[2016-04-04] Working Around the IRETD Problem:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ … 404-00/?p=93261

[2016-04-11] The Interrupt Flag:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ … 411-00/?p=93281

[2016-04-18] Too Much Memory!:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ … 418-00/?p=93307

[2016-04-25] Too Much EMM Memory:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ … 425-00/?p=93345

[2016-05-03] Not Enough XMS Handles:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ … 503-00/?p=93397
Follow-up: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ … 808-00/?p=94036

Sound device guides:
Sound Blaster
Aztech
OPL3-SA

Reply 2 of 2, by SaxxonPike

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Jorpho wrote:

Don't forget the Bonus Chapters from his book, available at http://www.informit.com/store/old-new-thing-p … e-9780321440303 : the classics "How To Ensure That Your Program Does Not Run Under Windows 95" and "Tales of Application Compatibility".

I was just about to list these! Totally worth reading. There's so much hilarious material in there.

Sound device guides:
Sound Blaster
Aztech
OPL3-SA

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