Wow, reading this has reminded me about the hours spent trying to get Frontier: Elite 2 running on my Amstrad 386 SX20 notebook (feel the power!).

Getting the (2 whole megs) of extended RAM configured right was a right game in itself. Actually, IIRC, it was getting enough of the 640 released that was the difficult bit. Curse my failing memory, but it was 10 or 11 years ago

Dunno why I bothered either, when I did get it going, it ran like a slideshow