Bill: On my Win98 system, the best thing that I can do is to configure the Fractint Dos box switches the following settings: Protected memory is on & memory allocation set to 640Kb, XMS is on & memory set to 4096KB, HMA on, DPMI is on & set to memory 4096, Several E-Group members have suggested to leave EMS set to off. BTW, I have noticed that Video Disk Mode accesses "Extended Memory Services". Is "Extended Memory Services" EMS or XMS? I am doing the same thing for the "command.com" DOS BOX from which I've been running my "Zooming" and "Animation" BAT files. I no longer have any reason to be runner Win2000 on my hottest machine. I need the clock speed for rendereing Fractint files. So I am taking Win2000 off of the machines and re-installing Win98. Luckily I kept FAT32 as the file system so all I have to do is install Win98SE over the top of Win2000. Anyone have any suggestions how I can "downgrade" my system to Win98 without having to reinstall all my proggies? All the best, TG ----- Original Message ----- From: "JackOTradez" <JackOTradez@email.msn.com> To: <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 11:24 AM Subject: [Fractint] Re: clean boot and bat files
Do a "sys a:" command from the Win98SE command prompt (DOS window ok for this) this will create a clean DOS-7 boot floppy with the system files. Then add config.sys and autoexec.bat like these:
CONFIG.SYS file: (1 line)
break=on
AUTOEXEC.BAT file: (4 lines)
@echo off path A:\;C:\;C:\windows;C:\windows\command;C:\windows\system;c:\fractint prompt $P$G cls
NO TSR's, himem.sys, emm386.exe, etc. I have found thru extensive work that fractint likes clean memory space. Keep it clean. Keep it cool.
As for nesting bat files within bat files, use the "call" command; don't just put the name of the bat file in another bat file. You just need to keep track of the logic flow in all the files being called or referenced.
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