Posted by Dr D on 6, 2000 at 12:49 PM:
I'm trying to run some old DOS games in my arcade cabinet. I'm using ArcadeOS as my frontend. I'm also using Mon-Arc (or now Mon-Arc Plus).
If I go to a DOS shell from ArcadeOS, I get about 473k. Which isn't quite enough to run a couple of older games.
I've been to Axcel216's site but part of my problem is that Mon-Arc is now 59k, and ArcadeOS leaves about 57k and I get 3 copies of COMMAND.COM loaded. If I run MEM /C /P, it shows me that ArcadeOS takes away about 130k (before, and shelled). This is Win98 booting directly to DOS.
I load HIMEM, EMM386 (I have a SB card that requires it), and my CDROM driver. I can probably get rid of SMARTDRV but that's about it. I've tried loading as much high as I can.
I need 550k to run a couple DOS games. Has anyone done better in a DOS shell from ArcadeOS?