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Subject: Re: Best version of MS-DOS for chess programs

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 10:20:09 10/18/00

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On October 18, 2000 at 08:38:51, Gerald Grimsley wrote:

>Hello, I am one of those guys that still has a lot of chess programs that run on
>DOS (Rebel10,MCP8, Fritz3, WCHESS, Socrates, Zarkov 3.0 and many others).  With
>a few of the programs, i.e. Rebel10, Socrates, and others, I get error messages
>regarding memory problems when I try to load them.  I am running a P200MMX with
>64MB and Dos 6.22.  Since this is a computer just dedicated to running chess
>programs and DOS is the operating system, does anyone recommend going back to
>DOS version 4 or 5. Maybe some of these memory problems will go away.  Any
>experience out there?
>Thanks in advance
>Gerald Grimsley

I suspect you just need to fix the config for your DOS 6.22. No need to use an
older version of DOS.

If you are really determined to use some other version of DOS, you might
consider the following link:

http://www.drdos.com/

Good luck!



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