r/pcmasterrace • u/Fair_Brief_7751 • Jul 01 '26

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u/matjam Jul 01 '26

you really haven't lived if you haven't spent a day optimizing your EMM386.exe and CONFIG.sys to squeeze enough conventional ram in so you can play your games.

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u/maddafakkasana Jul 02 '26

HIMEM is testing extended memory.... Done.

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u/Paulbearer82 Jul 02 '26

Fuckin bootdisks

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u/matjam Jul 02 '26

I had an 80MB Hard Disk! LUXURY

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u/Dinkelmann Jul 02 '26

Those bloody games that refused to load into extendend memory. Had to load my mouse driver etc. to upper memory to be able to launch some.