Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: To Ed but Also to any computer pundit.: Boot disk recipe for Century

Author: Mike S.

Date: 16:29:51 12/07/01

Go up one level in this thread


On December 07, 2001 at 08:34:29, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Dear Ed:
>(...) Nevertheless, I would
>be glad to get century 4 if you could state here in CCC the line of commands
>that an ideal bootable disk should be for Century 4.  I have some old books
>about Dos and memory handling, but I am not sure where I kept them. Probably
>they are somewhere making comapny to my old 5.75 floppy disks.

I cannot say what Century 4 will need exactly (I also wasn't aware of the NTFS
issue), but I can offer a configuration we have used and successfully tested
with M-Chess Pro 7.1 when Windows ME was released.

(It may be a problem if a DOS program need to suppress himem.sys or the new xms
driver which WinME seems to use, but AFAIK M-Chess or Rebel don't have that
problem).

The idea was to make a Startup disk in Windows ME (in system
properties/software), and edit the configuration files.

Use *at your own risk* (of course path must be customized, also those to your
individual DOS mouse and CD drivers):

CONFIG.SYS
----------

[menu]
menuitem=  CD, CD ROM-Support and SmartDrive
menuitem=NOCD, Mini-Configuration (no CD, SmartDrv)
menudefault=CD,6
menucolor=14,0

[COMMON]
files=40
buffers=10
dos=high,umb
stacks=9,256
lastdrive=z

[CD]
DEVICE=c:\cd-rom\TEAC_CDI.SYS /D:TEAC-CDI

[NOCD]

------------

AUTOEXEC.BAT
------------

@ECHO OFF
SET windir=C:\WINDOWS
SET winbootdir=C:\WINDOWS
SET COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM
SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;..
SET PROMPT=$p$g
SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
SET TMP=C:\TEMP
SET DIRCMD=/o:en /p

c:\windows\command\doskey /insert
REM (for german users) c:\windows\command\ebd\keyb
gr,,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\keyboard.sys

SET LMOUSE=C:\MOUSE
C:\MOUSE\MOUSE.EXE

goto %config%

:CD
c:\windows\smartdrv 2048
c:\cd-rom\mscdex.exe /D:TEAC-CDI /M:15

:NOCD

----------

Good luck!

Regards,
M.Scheidl



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.