That game (and x-com) helped me learn autoexe.bat and config.sys. I had to do all manner of memory, DMA, & IRQ fiddling to load a mouse and soundcard. Probably why I'm in tech today.
A trick I learned is that if you started it with wizards.exe instead of mom (don't remember if it was .com or .exe) it would skip the intro video which used about 60k more RAM than the rest of the game. Also, nwcdex (the novell CD-ROM driver) could load into either EMS or XMS while the microsoft version could not.