Author: Tim Mirabile
Date: 11:45:34 04/15/99
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On April 14, 1999 at 05:47:37, Laurence Chen wrote: >If you create a shortcut in Win98, there's no way you will be able to use the >flag -x, that's because windows manages all the upper memory. Hence, the only >way to use the -x is booting up in DOS before Windows, [...] This is not true. Go into the shortcut properties, choose the "Program" tab, then click the "Advanced..." button. Check off "MS-DOS Mode", and "Specify a new MS-DOS configuration". Then you will be able to create a Config.sys and Autoexec.bat which will be used only for that shortcut. The key for running HIARCS in -x mode is to include the line DOS=NOAUTO in the "Config.sys for MS-DOS mode" box. This prevents the memory managers from loading. If you add a DOS mouse driver to the "Autoexec.bat for MS-DOS mode" box, you will be able to use the mouse. You can probably copy the mouse driver command directly from c:\windows\dosstart.bat - if your computer was properly set up to run DOS mode programs. Unless you add CD-ROM drivers, you will get an error 780 every month as HIARCS tries to check for the original CD. A workaround is to refresh by running HIARCS under windows, then go back to using the DOS mode shortcut until the error 780 appears again. Again, if your computer was set up correctly, the correct CD-ROM device driver line should be in your Config.sys file, and the MS CD-Rom extension (MSCDEX) should be in the c:\windows\dosstart.bat file, and will need to be copied over to the "Autoexec.bat for MS-DOS mode" box. I will put screenshots of this at http://www.icdchess.com/software/tech.html
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