Author: Mike S.
Date: 10:35:21 10/18/00
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On October 18, 2000 at 13:20:09, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>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 (...)
>I suspect you just need to fix the config for your DOS 6.22. No need to use an
>older version of DOS.
Yes, usually these problems are about using or not using *himem.sys*, or
himem.sys with or without *emm386.exe*. The latter may be necessary to allow you
to lh ("loadhigh") drivers and keep enough base memory free. Or, on the other
hand, you must NOT load it (or not even himem.sys), to allow a chess program to
allocate maximum hash tables.
I've managed to handle all of this with the DOS of Windows 98 (SE), but M-Chess
is a nightmare in this respect, when it wants to refresh the CD copy protection.
It's tricky to load CD driver and mscdex.exe and still have enough memory to
get M-Chess to start. Should this work in a MS-DOS task under Winodow btw. (I
have not checked this for a while)?
Regards,
M.Scheidl
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