Re: DOS MAME, DOS 7.x and memory (read on)...


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Posted by Dave new boy on 18, 2000 at 11:45 AM:

In Reply to: Re: DOS MAME, DOS 7.x and memory (read on)... posted by EmuMannen on 6, 2000 at 6:12 PM:

: I prefere plain vanilla DOS. The BootGUI=0 in MSDOS.SYS is a simple solution especially if you want to run Win9x from time to time.

: I really don't know what is loaded at bootup if you do have Windows installed so I made my own installation of DOS 7.1 ripped from my Windows 98 SE installation. The DOS installation is about 1 mb and additional drivers and old Norton commander for file management takes another meg. I find this compact bare bone installation of DOS really easy to maintain and debug. It boots really fast too :)

: This really should be about DOS and memory managment but first some about a useful DOS version for DOS-based arcade cabinets ;)

: DOS is slowly fading away so I thought that I really should make a backup of it (I do have my original DOS 5.0 and 6.22 backed up on CD) but DOS 7.x is enbedded in Win9x. I don't want to install Win9x to make a quick DOS installation on a cabinet or other enbedded like PC based system I own so I made a system disk with the most essential DOS 7.x files on it.

I used your batch file to rip DOS from win 98 se.
Command.com is about 92k. I own a copy of IBM's
PC-DOS 7.0, and it's only about 52k. I am just starting to set up a DOS only box and that is what
I am using. I haven't looked at my mem yet, but 40k is a big difference




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