Author: Albert Silver
Date: 04:36:57 12/08/01
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On December 07, 2001 at 19:29:51, Mike S. wrote:
>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.
>
Very cool! Many thanks Mike, I will try this out. So I get to slug it out with
me ol'pal Mchess, eh?.... <cackle>
Albert
>(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
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