Wait play the game? I am fiddling my config.sys and autoexec.bat just right and making sure I could get to 610k. Using 4DOS to have a pick a path adventure of which configuration to load as it was starting up to run each game. Then I might play a game here and there.

I definitely remember the collection of boot disks I used to load the right autoexec.bat/config.sys settings for the Ultima and Wing Commander games, and how long I spent tuning these settings. I was just a kid then, but I remember the whole exercise being pretty complicated!

I remember getting "The Complete Ultima VII" on CD and never figuring out how to get it running. I think I've still got the box, but I think the disc has been missing for years. I bought it on GOG some time ago, though.

Haha this XD... I couldn't figure it out on my own and asked my Mom for help, luckily she was able to get it running for me :D

I recall that it was possible to squeeze a disk cache in too, which made a nice difference for performance.

Oh yeah, I had to unload the CD driver and move the mouse driver to himem just for this...

the game didn't run with EMS. You needed XMS

Fun fact. Ultima 7 was one of the few commercial titles ever made that used "Unreal" mode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_mode

It wasn't particularly popular as it couldn't play nice with protected mode environments.

Other than Ultima 7 I only know of Zone66 as another game that used Unreal mode. Early versions also didn't like v86 mode but later versions added support for DPMI or in some other way started to play nicely with EMM386

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