Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 11:51:43 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 Hi Gerals have you ever used memmakerwich comes with Dos (or Qemm from Quarterdeck)this could solve your problem Also some old dos programs use ems memmory so you might be forced to use the option to use that too Then again Fritz3 runs best by making a start up disk otherwise it can'nt run in x mode then Gambit even asked you to change the config ems had to be locked for the videos (but you can read that in the manual I also knew how to get it optimal 640kb conventional memory but I should have to look that up again.
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