#Overtaxing the system?
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I have a 486/33 pc. I put in a Mitshumi CD-ROM drive. Now its a fight for basic
memory. I either use the CD-ROM program like the 7th Guest, or recalculate the
memory to use it on the Window games. Any solution to this? Someone made the
suggestion to install another 486/33 pc with the same monitor and keybord. An
expensive proposition. Better way to do it?
John
There are significant memory overheads for CDROM, as you've discovered. The
good news is that they are easily surmounted as long as you're comfy editing
your config & autoexec files. A good memory manager will make it easier, but
it's a little more expensive. Besides, we all bought these things to labor
over install routines and conflicts, not to do work or have fun, didn't we?
Download file Laser3.txt from Lib #4; it has almost all the answers you'll need
to load the CD drivers high and clean up your memory issues. I'm running a
486-66 with 8MB and have 18 drivers, TSRs, etc. loaded, mostly into upper
memory blocks, and have about 600K of free RAM, which is plenty for any program
you're likely to run.
Good luck. Write back if you need some additional help.
John, If the suggestions you have already received fail you should get
Quaterdeck's QEMM 7.0 as that can provide more high memory than the memory
manager that comes with DOS 6.0 can provide.