I plan to extend this page with methods for using EMS memory with QBASIC. For now, it's mostly just a stub.

Introduction

Quick BASIC programs are limited in the amount of RAM they can use to something typically in the area of 350k byte, or so. This is the amount of RAM available, after everything else gets loaded. But EMS provides a method for extending this and it can be used by Quick BASIC programs, too.

Rather than duplicating a lot of information, let me first refer you to a web page Microsoft maintains on the general subject of DOS memory manager technologies:

Last updated: Friday, June 18, 2004 12:42