Cyberdyne wrote:aweutil /s does not consume memory!
Correct.
LSS10999 wrote:I dunno if CTCM or CTCU is needed when using alongside Windows, as they'd abort themselves if it detects WinBootDir environment variable in MSDOS.sys, although modified versions that bypasses the check existed.
This is the bug in CTCM/CTCU - they assume that if there is WINBOOTDIR, then you are in a DOS session inside Windows, thus they are not needed (and refuse to run). But in pure DOS mode on Win9x (BootGUI=0), they are needed.
Cyberdyne wrote:HEX edit CTCM and CTCU ... change winbootdir to something that nobody uses, and all problems solved.
That's exactly what I did to create those modified versions (I called them CTCME and CTCUE for differentiation). I think others did it independently as well. Apparently CTCM /T also allows this check to be skipped (maybe in certain versions of CTCM only?)
LSS10999 wrote:CTCM needs to be loaded from CONFIG.SYS,
CTCM does not need to be loaded from Config.sys. It can run from Autoexec.bat.
jesolo wrote:If you're running under a Windows 9x environment, then you only require CTCM to be loaded in your Config.sys file - it will then read the settings from a file called ctpnp.cfg in your Windows folder.
If you're under DOS 6.22 or earlier, then you also require CTCU to configure your card.
I think that if you have SET CTCM= (or is it SET SOUND= ?) in your Autoexec.bat, it will read CTPNP.CFG from whichever directory you point it to. Thus, you don't need to run CTCU on every boot (unless you want to change the PnP configuration). And once again, contrary to what is claimed here time and again, CTCM can be run from Autoexec, it is not mandatory to load it from Config.sys (although possible)
LSS10999 wrote:If your card is not PnP, then you don't need CTCM/CTCU. You only need DIAGNOSE and MIXERSET.
I believe you are correct. CTCM/CTCU is only for PnP cards. DIAGNOSE is only needed for non-PnP cards. MIXERSET may be good to run either way just to make sure the mixer is properly reset at every boot. AWE64 is always PnP, so it only needs CTCM and AWEUTIL. AWE32 can come in PnP and non-PnP flavors.
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