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- echo LINKS-The Challenge of Golf
- echo INFORMATION ON HOW TO INCREASE FREE AVAILABLE MEMORY
- echo Last update 10-26-90
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- echo Dear LINKS owner,
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- echo We believe LINKS is the most realistic and most technically advanced golf
- echo simulator ever developed. In creating such a sophisticated program, however,
- echo we have had to push your computer to its limits. LINKS requires a large
- echo amount of memory to manipulate terrain data and to reproduce accurately
- echo all of the intricate details of the game. At least 520K bytes are needed to
- echo run the program. Player comments require another 8K bytes and wildlife
- echo sounds require an additional 17K bytes. Thus, 545K bytes are needed to see
- echo and hear all that LINKS has to offer.
- echo .
- echo To verify the amount of free memory on your computer, run the DOS utility
- echo called CHKDSK. The last number displayed is the amount of free memory. If
- echo the number is less than 545000, then some of LINKS' digitized sounds will
- echo not be heard. If the number is less than 520000, you will not be able to
- echo run LINKS.
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- echo Your 640K machine actually has 655360 bytes available. When your computer
- echo boots, it loads DOS (which takes about 55,000 bytes) and then uses a file
- echo called CONFIG.SYS to automatically set aside memory for file buffers and
- echo other things. It also uses a file called AUTOEXEC.BAT to AUTOmatically
- echo EXECute user defined instructions. Both CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT can (and
- echo usually do) contain programs known as TSR's. TSR stands for Terminate and
- echo Stay Resident. These programs install themselves and then stay in memory
- echo to be used when needed. A mouse driver, print spooler, keyboard enhancer,
- echo disk cacher, memory manager and DOS shell are all examples of such programs.
- echo THESE PROGRAMS USE MEMORY. If there are too many of them resident at one
- echo time, there won't be room for LINKS or other large programs. TO INCREASE
- echo FREE AVAILABLE MEMORY, YOU MUST REMOVE OR DISABLE SOME OF YOUR TSR'S.
- echo .
- echo If you have more than 640K (1Meg, 2Meg, or more) this can be used as extra
- echo memory for preloading sound and graphics, but not for DOS. LINKS still
- echo requires at least 520K free of your first 640K.
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- echo LINKS AND WINDOWS
- echo You must exit completely from Windows to run LINKS. Do not exit Windows by
- echo way of the DOS PROMPT icon.
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