| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 67.1 | Maybe not what you want to hear | KAOA00::KAOP97::SOWREY | Son of Worf | Tue Jul 12 1994 09:07 | 10 |
| Rumour has it that it is possible -- but it'll hardly ever work
nicely (ie. it'll be unplayably choppy, if it even loads)
Alas my friend, you're probably looking at a memory upgrade. If
you want my humble suggestion: go for 16 Mb. That way you can
make a nice 12 Mb RAM disk to throw DOOM into and you don't get
that disk swap slow down!!!
Geoff
(Who would *LOVE* to get 32 Mb on his system for the same reason)
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| 67.2 | interesting | BRUMMY::WILLIAMSM | Born to grep | Tue Jul 12 1994 10:51 | 9 |
| Actually, that's kind of a neat idea. I have "access" to a 386DX40-16
which I run doom on from time to time. How would I set this RAM disk
up with the problem that I have to F5 past the config.sys and stuff in
order to get doom to run at all. Doom is running on drive H: which is
stacked.
Any ideas?
regards, Michael.
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| 67.3 | No can do | KAOA00::KAOP97::SOWREY | Son of Worf | Tue Jul 12 1994 12:08 | 10 |
| RE: -.1
You can't. RAMDRIVE.SYS is needed, and take a wild guess
how you load it... (you need CONFIG.SYS).
I wouldn't recommend playing Doom with a stacked drive
anyway -- I've heard of numerous problems, not to mention
a slowdown in game speed (anyone confirm this?)
Geoff
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| 67.4 | | BAHTAT::HILTON | Beer...now there's a temporary solution | Tue Jul 12 1994 13:03 | 6 |
| I run Doom off a stacked drive on my laptop. No worries. Only slowdown
is when the laptop has spun down the hard drive!!
Cheers,
Greg
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| 67.5 | | CSOA1::BACH | They who know nothing, doubt nothing... | Tue Jul 12 1994 16:19 | 8 |
| Yeah, no noticable diference on a 420SX with 8MB RAM.
How much does 16Meg go? Or the RAM drive? Could that work with
a 420SX?
Thanks
Chip
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| 67.6 | RAM still ain't a buck a meg | KAOA09::KAOP97::SOWREY | Son of Worf | Wed Jul 13 1994 08:04 | 9 |
| RE: -.1
16 megs eh? Hmm... Internally I have no idea, externally about $CDN1600
(not counting the flippin' 15% sales taxes...)
The Ram disk is free! All you need is RAMDRIVE.SYS (which I believe still
ships with Windows) and a little patience -- and you're off and running!
Geoff
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| 67.7 | | KDX200::ROBR | Dust fills my eyes... | Sun Jul 24 1994 14:10 | 3 |
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16 meg is about $640 (US) or so via mail order.
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