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Very Unusual...
Dosbox usually tricks the program into using normal RAM.
Try Booting up your computer with a Dos bootup floppy and running it.
If that won't work,I don't know what will.
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Unfortunately, all my hard drives are SATA drives, and I have no idea whether (real) DOS has drivers for the mobo SATA drive controller. I suspect not. I've tried to boot that machine into DOS for other unrelated puposes and found I couldn't access the hard drives.
However, the machine is a dual boot, and I can try booting into Linux and using DosBox and see if that gives me any different results. I'll try that right now.
OK. Here's what I got:
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DOS version 5.0
Available Base memory: 652016 bytes
Base Memory OK.
Available expanded memory...... 15296 KB
LIM/EMS Version * * *.............. * *4.0
Total expanded memory pages .... 1024
Available expanded memory pages ... 956
Total handles .... 100
Active handles .... 0
Mouse driver found.
No CD-ROM drives found.
C:\>
So it seems like I got farther in Linux, but I'm still not all the way there. Is there a way of configuring a CD-ROM to be present?
It's funny seeing these terms. Most of my assembly experience was with the 6502 where we didn't have issues like "expanded" and "extended" memory. LOL.