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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (9 children)

If you've had to mess around with EMM386 and HIMEM settings to play Wing Commander 2, you win.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Autoexec.bat's and boot disks for everything ftw.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I learnt how to use a custom autoexec.bat that had a menu to select the different memory configs. That was a godsend!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Yup eventually did this with DOS 6. Suffered from DOS 1 until then.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

That knowledge is completely useless now.

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