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Old DOS games and memory problems

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From: A Whiteford
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 00:00
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Trying to load old, many times played but still loved "Betrayal at
Krondor".  I keep getting a message
that there's not enough memory, make a boot disk.  I've tried choosing
Krondor.exe file and
selecting properties to configure memory through Windows98.  It doesn't
matter what I set the memory
options to - I still keep getting the error message.  I've tried setting
conventional memory to 640K,
my initial environment to 2096 and various levels of extended memory
(currently 8,192) using HMA
and MS DOS protected memory of 16,384.

None of the changes seem to matter.  I keep getting the same error
message.  When I run MEM at the DOS prompt it tells me I have 64Mb
available and my conventional memory is down only 84K from the 640K.

Help desperately sought to keep son happy.

Thanks

As an aside, my son has kept all his old games bought over years and
I've tried loading a
couple of others recently and had significant problems in most eg.
Pirate's Gold
wouldn't recognise my mouse, installing the mouse driver in the PG
directory didn't work.
I had to ask for help to get old drivers to install.  While the mouse is
working fine now thanks to
drivers sent to me, the game still isn't.  It now wants VESA drivers and
while it will start it keeps
crashing with lines across the monitor.  I've got an Eagle card which
shows up either as a Banshee
or a Voodoo and doesn't have any problems running new games.  Should I
trade all his old games in - is the
current PC configuration too advanced for old DOS games????  Any views
on Windows98 and DOS games.

However, back to "Betrayal at Krondor", if anyone can suggest a memory
fix, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks
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From: A Whiteford <awhitefo@dynamite.com.au>
Subject: Old DOS games and memory problems
Date: 1999/04/05
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