Re: legacy: EMM = RAM, bug?

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"Mister Scary" <daniel_newhouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:etNEyYdXFHA.160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|I am currently finishing up a computer I just put together. I have edited
| config.NT in Windows XP several times before, with other computers. Only
| this time when I add EMM = RAM to config.NT I get the following error
| message when I start the DOS prompt:
|
| "Unrecognized command in CONFIG.SYS
| Error in CONFIG.SYS line 56"
|
| I have never had this happen before. If you want to get the more advanced
| DOS games working in the NTVDM, the EMM = RAM line is imperative.
|
| I figure this is probably some bug introduced by Microsoft's updates. I
| have had a similar situation before, when I complained on these boards that
| a Toshiba SD-M1502 DVD ROM wasn't working with either cmd.exe or command.com
| I discovered after the next critical update to Windows that it was working
| in the command prompts.
|
|

Hi Mister,

When a game is a DOS game, it could work using the Multiboot
bootdisk from: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~lpcd/downloads.html
and always check at fileplanet.com to see if there's a patch available.

With DOSBOX you can emulate a DOS computer on your XP desktop:
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/information.php Or try MS Virtual PC:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/virtualpc/downloads/trial.asp
which allows you to install DOS or to run any operating system inside XP.

If you prefer to explore other advanced methods, here are two excellent
tutorials I've found on the subject: http://www.dosgames.com/faq.php and
http://home.earthlink.net/~angeldancer27/XpGameList.htm For sound
issues use: http://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~vromas/vdmsound Good Luck! :-)

--
Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com


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