The early days of PC gaming were a wonderful, frustrating and mysterious time. Minimum requirements were to be respected and feared, manual configuration was serious business and every last byte of memory counted. I challenge anyone who grew up playing DOS games not to go all misty-eyed at this love-letter from last century…
config.sys ---------- DOS=HIGH,UMB,NOAUTO FILESHIGH=40 DEVICE=C:\Windows\HIMEM.SYS /V DEVICE=C:\Windows\EMM386.EXE NOEMS DEVICEHIGH /L:2 =C:\CDROM\CDROM.SYS /D:MSCD000
autoexec.bat ------------ @ECHO OFF LH C:\Windows\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:123 LH /L:0;2 /S C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\SMARTDRV 2048 16 /V SET SOUND=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\CTSND SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6 SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:G PROMPT $p$g PATH C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND