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Az is offline Az
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MACEDONIA - It's the name of the sovereign country to the north of Greece
Apr 2000
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Computer Gurus! Help me get an oldie DOS-only game on track. Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

Thanks for tuning in.

I've recently put my dirty claws on a game I saw a very long time ago at a friend's house. The game is called "Crusader: No Regret". Some of you may be familiar with the game, an action game, with lots and lots of fun.

Of course, things cannot go that smoothly. The game doesn't launch in Win9x. It actually fails to compile or something, 'because I get some sort of compiler error on a *.c file. So, I say, OK, you're one classy game, you deserve the respect. I am going to actually honour you, and launch the PC through the command prompt for you.

Now of course, this raises a shitload myriad of problems.

As I remember, in MS-DOS noone can hear you scream. You need all sorts of gismos like expanded memory managers, Extended memory managers, and god knows what else. The fun part is that I never understood what those two memories meant, but that's not everything. In that sense, I need a healthy MS-DOS enviroment. What I also need, is a working sound card. This is another black hole for me, because it seems that for some reason, the oldie-card emulator doesn't work well in windows, meaning, it works for some games, and, ahem, doesn't exist for others. DOS drivers for my card are out of the question, since it's "only" 3 years old. I know there is that whole "set blaster=Axxx Ix Dx and crap. you also need a similar "set midi" line or something. Maybe I am completely wrong, and it won't help. In either case, please instruct me.


I want to thank in advance all of you, and to say that I really appreciate the effort.

raghar is offline raghar
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Oct 2002
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It might help to first run setup.

Or set sound or something in this game directory.
device=EMM386.EXE AUTO in your config.sys could help.

BTW better is NOREMORSE

Az is offline Az
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MACEDONIA - It's the name of the sovereign country to the north of Greece
Apr 2000
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Suffering from ads?

maybe DEVICEHIGH, to load it into the upper memory?

raghar is offline raghar
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Oct 2002
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Sure, but dont forget to load Himem.sys first.
And you could look in ini files of this game.

Az is offline Az
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MACEDONIA - It's the name of the sovereign country to the north of Greece
Apr 2000
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ok, I've placed the HIMEM.SYS, and EMM386.exe AUTO.

Also, I've placed:

code:
SET BLASTER= A220 I5 D1 H7 P330 T6 SET SBPCI= C:\SBPCI\


I've slightly altered the first line so it would have IRQ=5, instead of 5. I have no Idea why. attempting to launch.

Solver is offline Solver
Apolyton Duke Of Something
Latvia, Riga
Sep 2000
time: 07:29
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Good luck, and mention who got you the software .

Az is offline Az
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MACEDONIA - It's the name of the sovereign country to the north of Greece
Apr 2000
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You know who you are.


In any way, this still doesn't work!!

Hueij is offline Hueij
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Kokonino Kounty
May 1999
time: 06:29
  Old Post 02-07-2003 02:27
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Got spare money?

Can't you make a DOS boot floppy?

Az is offline Az
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MACEDONIA - It's the name of the sovereign country to the north of Greece
Apr 2000
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Put an end to popups!

And what it would run at startup? ( That's the whole damn question! )

raghar is offline raghar
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Oct 2002
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What is the error message exactly?

Az is offline Az
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MACEDONIA - It's the name of the sovereign country to the north of Greece
Apr 2000
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Inflate your Upload Space

No error message now. It just hangs.

blackice is offline blackice
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Canada where else...
Sep 2000
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Inflate your Upload Space

right click the *.exe file in win98 that starts the dos program. Then follow the bouncing ball so to speak.
Not sure what to do go to help and type in "running dos games in windows"

Az is offline Az
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MACEDONIA - It's the name of the sovereign country to the north of Greece
Apr 2000
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When I run it in Win 98, it gives me a compilation error.

Atahualpa is offline Atahualpa
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Mar 1999
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maybe it works with freedos or something like that

Az is offline Az
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MACEDONIA - It's the name of the sovereign country to the north of Greece
Apr 2000
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I have the strangest feeling that the SB is to blame.

raghar is offline raghar
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Oct 2002
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Remove this text

Old games are often in needs of setup of sound. Autoexec isn't enough. Try to run other exe in directory.
What is the text of the compilation error?

Az is offline Az
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MACEDONIA - It's the name of the sovereign country to the north of Greece
Apr 2000
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Put an end to popups!

The game doesn't run on win9x, period. Noone has been able to make it run on win 9x. I've tried sound setup, but it crashes.

Skanky Burns is offline Skanky Burns
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Aug 2001
time: 14:29
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Set it to run with no sound. Then try running it in DOS.
Success will mean it is your soundcard settings causing problems and you can then focus on fixing that.

Az is offline Az
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MACEDONIA - It's the name of the sovereign country to the north of Greece
Apr 2000
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Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

a Solid Plan . I'll report back tomorrow.

Urban Ranger is offline Urban Ranger
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May 1999
time: 13:29
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Get a bigger avatar today!

Get a copy of MS-DOS 6.22. Then start messing with config.sys and autoexec.bat

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