Yepp, I know that little program. But even with that, it wasn`t possible to clear enuff lower memory for some games. Especially the game "Der Clou" I never managed to get it to run, no matter what I did, there were still a few KB too much used by DOS and drivers to let the game work. I`m still wondering if anyone in the world has ever played this game and what tricks he/she used to get it to run.

How would I know.. I play video games... think I have a girlfriend / wife / kids?!? :P

Maybe nobody did? Just a bad port? Maybe there was a downloadable patch on the ancient internet?
A trick to make people buy an Amiga? ;-P

From what I remember, Dune II was one of the harder ones to get running with full sound.

Yeah, it's quite painful to overhear those sorts of conversations, as there is generally not a lot of sense being shared between the parties involved.

I agree determination is the key I almost always have been a been able to get a game to run sometimes it takes a while.

Gonna have to do better than that, I'm afraid...

P.S.: DXWnd for the win!

If you no way could free up enough RAM, and had 640k, you had to change to an older version of DOS that took less RAM. Nowadays it is so easy with DOSBox.

I have a question, which of these dip switches do I enable the 50k memory extension on this Turbo XT?

I dunno, I think I installed my Apple //e 16kB language card in the wrong slot. I know the floppy drive controller only fits in the sixth slot —— PR#6

:/

Hell, back before I got good at computers, I figured it out. I still shudder to think what would happen to people having to set IRQ addresses and proper memory limits because the equipment was not plug and play, the games were not plug and play, and the computers may have hardware that the developer never saw or heard of before. Back before things were fairly standardized, games and hardware didn't like to play nice together. Hell, normal operating procedure was to install the game, troubleshoot the installation, and after a few hours you'd know if you could even play it or not.

I remember how hard it was for me to get the first Monkey Island to run back in the day. I was a 10-year old kid who had only ever used Windows and never even heard of DOS, and I found a Monkey Island trilogy pack at a store and was super excited since I loved the fourth game in the series. Installed the first game, didn't work. Turned out I had to learn how to navigate DOS prompts to run the game. Not the hardest thing in the world, but I felt like a hacker. Don't laugh...

Anyway, we really shouldn't complain too much about modern times because games DO just run most of the time. Not to mention, we now just re-release most classic games anyway and overprice them (looking at you BG:EE), and these newer versions tend to run right away.

That was also true of the old days, for every single type of computer except DOS machines.

Well, you surely don`t know Home Computers.

I doubt you had to suffer though tape drives and having to manually wind things to the data track then.