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Message   Badman    King-Marshall   DOS startup files   April 4, 1997
 1:14 AM  

Re: More RAM....

> >      That was my original attitude towards the thing.  But then Win95 used
> > a fake refresh-rate flaw to electronically lobotomize me.  Here's something
> > that I did.  If you have an autoexec.bat or config.sys, KILL 'EM.  Win95
> > makes its own, and the DOS startup files conflict with it.
> Kill them? I tried that once, and I couldn't get the CD and Sound Card to
> work, when I re-installed the autoexec.bat and config.sys, everything started
> working again. Same with the ZIP Drive.

This will happen if your hardware is NOT natively supported in Win95.  Let's
sum up:

If 100% of your computer's hardware is recognized by Win95, you can kill your
DOS startup files (and probably see a performance boost, especially for
CD-ROMs).

If you have unsupported hardware, it probably "mimics" something that Win95
is familiar with.  Load the DOS driver in the DOS startup files, then let
Win95 try to detect it.  Perfect example:  Magic S20 sound cards.  Windows 95
will not recognize a Magic S20 - based sound card (and there are a lot of
them out there).  Load the DOS drivers and just set it up in Win95 as a Sound
Blaster Pro (which is what the Magic S20 mimics).  Works like a champ.

Badman
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