Conventional Memory/Expanded Memory fun: Dreamweb

MBison · Post by **MBison** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 5:07 am

I'm trying to play the CD version of Dreamweb.

I'm using a Win 95 machine with a Dos 6.22 boot disk.

Dreamweb requires EXPANDED memory as well as a mind-boggling 590K of free conventional memory.

Here are my autoexec.bat and config.sys files.

AUTOEXEC.BAT

SET CTCM=C:\CTCM
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6
SET SOUND=C:\SB16
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0
C:\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S
C:\SB16\MIXERSET /P /Q
C:\SB16\AWEUTIL /S
C:\CTCM\CTCU /S
LOADHIGH MSCDEX.EXE /D:banana /L:R
LOADHIGH C:\MOUSE\MOUSE.COM

CONFIG.SYS

DEVICEHIGH=C:\CTCM\CTCM.EXE
DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS /testmem:off
DEVICE=EMM386.EXE RAM
DOS=HIGH,UMB
FILES=40
BUFFERS=20
DEVICE=CD1.SYS /D:banana
LASTDRIVE=Z

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using this configuration I get 582,926 of conventional memory (569K) and plenty of EMS.

I can use the "NOEMS" option and get over 600K of conventional memory but then Dreamweb won't run because it wants Expanded memory.

On this configuration, only MSCDEX fits in the upper memory so all those loadhighs are doing nothing.

How can I squeak out some more conventional memory?

I tried HIGHSCAN and that just froze my machine.

HELP.

Karthik · Post by **Karthik** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 9:23 am

I gave trying to run it in real Dos. Use DosBox instead

Interon · Post by **Interon** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 10:52 am

Instead of FILES=40 use FILES=20
Instead of BUFFERS=20 use BUFFERS=10
Instead of LASTDRIVE=Z use LASTDRIVE=F
Use CuteMouse instead of your normal mouse driver http://cutemouse.sourceforge.net (it only takes up about 4 KB whereas normal mouse drivers tend to use about 17 KB)

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/cdrom.zip

As well you could try that CD-ROM driver instead of the one you're using now (it only takes about 5 KB) as well use SHSUCDX instead of MSCDEX (more memory savings). http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stu ... cdx21a.zip