Some games like Monster Bash and Dune II have higher conventinal memory requirments. Monster Bash won't work reliably with anything under 600k free at least that has been my experience with it. Dune II needs
a lot of conventional memory if you also want sound blaster
digitized sound effects...
Makes sense, I've never considered playing games in an emulator. I tried a
few in dosbox once.. Autoduel, and StoneKeep. If'n I dropped rlfossil out of load given if its playing games, and perhaps share, it'd be close to 600k
even with xfs installed still.
The last DOS games I can recall playing at all, were... Zone66 and Ravenloft, both used the DOS4GW though... so although they wanted a lot of ram, conventional wasn't such an issue. Earlier stuff like Might & Magic 3 were pretty happy without much in the way of resources.
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