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mfldtoday at 6:38 PM1 replyview on HN

Does anyone remember the art of optimising MSDOS startup to have enough free memory for games? And inspecting gorillas.bas? For me, this probably contributed to an interest to learn more and experiment. In fact, I'd like to encourage my son to a similar creative exploration, but don't how this is going to happen when pulled into the current generation of games and videos.


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nosioptartoday at 6:47 PM

It's been a long time, but I remember it a bit.

I also remember running over to the neighbor's to make a copy of a working config file after effing up my config file. (Himem.sys?)