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- From: chubbard@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Charles William Hubbard)
- Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 req. for Falcon 3.0
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.010256.27903@serval.net.wsu.edu>
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- Organization: Washington State University Tri-Cities, Richland
- References: <1993Jan2.033128.15794@news.unomaha.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 01:02:56 GMT
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- >Does anyone know the reason DOS 5.0 is required for Falcon 3.0? I am currently
- >running DR DOS 5.0 (released parallel to MS DOS 4.0) and am curious if the
- >program would run on my OS. I am assuming that there are minimum memory
- >requirements that MS DOS 5.0 provides. DR DOS 5.0 provided greater memory
- >availability than MS DOS 4.0 if I am recalling correctly. Has anyone been
- >successful in running Falcon 3.0 on a previous DOS version (excluding DR DOS
- >6.0)?
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- I know the reason they "require" DOS 5.0 is for memory reasons. As I
- recall Falcon 3.0 needs 513k of free mem or something like that. I've
- never tried Falcon under any other OS than DOS 5.0 so I can't say if it
- would work ok under DRDOS or not. I do know that even under DOS 5.0 I've
- got to dump most of my drivers to free up enough space for the sim to go!
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- C.
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