EMM386 help

Factual Questions
1

I’m currently trying to set up a boot disc to run some of my old DOS games with. It works fine, but the problem is that each time it tries to run EMM386, the computer freezes up.

The OS I’m normally running is Windows ME, with a Fat32 file system. I’ve tried both running the file from the disc and the hard drive, but both alternatives create the same result.

Alternatively, the program I’m trying to get running (the SoundBlaster Live! DOS emulation for SB 16, to be exact) says it requires “EMM386 or something similiar”. Any suggestions on which alternative program I could try + where I could find it if nothing gets EMM working?

2

You stand a better chance running your old DOS games by grabbing a copy of old DOS and putting that on your boot disk.

Emm386 provided access to the upper memory area and used extended memory to simulate expanded memory, .i.e., before Windows.

A seach of EMM386 on Google should help you understand it.

3

WIN ME and DOS drivers will cooperate (kinda/sorta) on the most basic levels but often do not play nice. Boot the system with a boot disk made on a WIN98 machine.

4

I put EMM386 in the search box of my ME computer & found it located in the windows directory.

5

BTW, if I remember right, its the Extended Memory Manager, so its probably trying to allocate memory.

Im sure astro or Sailor can give a better answer.

6

I know where it is, but that doesn’t make it work any better. :frowning:

Thanks for the advice, guys. (And I thought I could do this easy somehow…)

7

Do you have a copy of memmaker.exe? It came as part of the later versions of DOS, and does a good job of setting up autoexec.bat and config.sys for extended memory use, including confirguring emm386.exe to avoid memory conflicts.