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Re: How do you know if a 16-bit DOS application uses EMS?

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On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 04:16 +0000, Marcus Houlden wrote:
> 
> You can install DOS quite nicely on Virtual PC under XP with whatever
> XMS or EMS config you want:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/support/virtual-pc-2007.aspx
> 
> From a DOS point of view it is a completely self-contained machine and
> when I played with it I had to boot it from a physical floppy disk
> (once I found one that still works) and run FDISK to install a file
> system on the virtual hard disk image.
> 
> DOSBox (http://www.dosbox.com/) works pretty well with some of my old
> games. (makes a mental note to try Doom on an HTPC connected to a 40"
> TV)

<waves>

I've still got DOS 6.22 w/ WFWG 3.11 running on an old P166 OC to
233 :-)
-- 
Tactical Nuclear Kittens

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How do you know if a 16-bit DOS application uses EMS? DOS Guy <DOS@Guy.com> - 2012-11-22 09:06 -0500
  Re: How do you know if a 16-bit DOS application uses EMS? Jim Leonard <mobygamer@gmail.com> - 2012-11-23 15:11 -0800
    Re: How do you know if a 16-bit DOS application uses EMS? Robert AH Prins <spamtrap@prino.org> - 2012-11-24 02:52 +0000
    Re: How do you know if a 16-bit DOS application uses EMS? Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2012-11-24 15:30 -0500
    Re: How do you know if a 16-bit DOS application uses EMS? gof@somewhere.invalid (Adam Wysocki) - 2012-11-26 09:10 +0000
      Re: How do you know if a 16-bit DOS application uses EMS? Jim Leonard <mobygamer@gmail.com> - 2012-11-29 12:04 -0800
  Re: How do you know if a 16-bit DOS application uses EMS? Marcus Houlden <spam@nukesoft.co.uk> - 2012-11-24 04:16 +0000
    Re: How do you know if a 16-bit DOS application uses EMS? Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell@munted.eu> - 2012-11-24 18:22 +0000
    [OT] Doom Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2012-11-27 11:06 +0700
  Re: How do you know if a 16-bit DOS application uses EMS? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> - 2012-11-24 04:07 -0500
    Re: How do you know if a 16-bit DOS application uses EMS? ak621@chebucto.ns.ca (Richard Bonner) - 2012-12-19 12:37 +0000

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