Expanded Memory

[Liberator]

I found my old copy of Master of Magic:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: and want to fire it up, but it complaining that it needs 2mb of Expanded Memory. Does anyone know of a program or method to make Windows 98se create an Expanded Memory partition?

[Tbird]

:elephant: oh joy, good ol config.sys & autoexec.bat editing :D

soz, removed the link; Assimilator`s is more accurate :)

[The_Assimilator]

Pfff, "Expanded Memory partition"...

Too few people know how to use DOS nowadays! Expanded Memory (aka EMS) is the memory in the region 1024KB - 32MB of your RAM. Tbird is right 'bout the Autoexec.bat/Config.sys editing, but that Knowledge Base article is the wrong one.

Try this (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;96766).

[Delphy]

You might also want to look at creating a boot disk, although that in itself runs into problems with mouse/sound drivers.

Essentially what those KB articles are saying is that you want to modify your config.sys file to allow expanded memory. You do this with the line:

device=c:\dos\emm386.exe 2048 ram

You don't need to worry about DOS=High,UMB since you aren't too worried about maximising conventional (sub 640k) memory here.

What I do at home when I want to play Mom is create a hardware profile with settings for all the dos games, including expanded and extended memory and so on.

Hope you get it working - it's a classic, very enjoyable, game :)

[Liberator]

Thanks Delphy!:D
Works better than new(mostly due to an enhanced MIDI table)

Still have the random freeze crash, but I'll patch it ASAP.

[Delphy]

One thing I can never get to work is the sound effects... midi music works great. Ah well, I pretty much know them all off by heart anyway :)

(Did you know the sound effect that plays when you change sound options in moo2 is the same effect that plays when you vanquish a wizard in mom?)

[trebmal_ca]

ahhh DOS I miss it sooo. the good old days when ya had to sit there with that 1 1/2 inch thick book screwing around with your system files. (not being sarcastic) And that glorious day you discover DOSSHELL.exe, and the whole world changed.