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Man, WINE really brings back the old experience of DOS with building different boot disks to run different programs and games.
Don't forget to enable himem.sys
you don't actually have to do that. for the most part you can just run everything in the same prefix. it's what I usually do.
Just like in DOS. Most things worked with one setup - but you always had that weird game that needed the mtmcdas.sys driver rather than mtmcdae.sys driver or something.