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Article #42Old DOS games and memory problems
From: A Whiteford
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 00:00
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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