DOOM on a 386-25?

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4 total messages Started by med... Mike Deal Fri, 14 Jan 1994 22:57

#1812

Author: med... Mike Deal
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 22:57

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Is anyone running DOOM on a 386DX25?  I cannot get it to work on mine.  With
OS/2, it told me that there was some kind of access error involving the 386
chip, but i don't really know exactly what all it said.  When I try to run
it, I get some kind of register dump that I can't make any sense of.

Any ideas?

mike
MED...@ZEUS.TAMU.EDU

Now that I am back at school, I can keep up with this group, so either post
or email.


Thanks!

Re: DOOM on a 386-25?

#1813

Author: tbra... Trevor Bradley
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 22:22

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med...@zeus.tamu.edu (Mike Deal) writes:

>Is anyone running DOOM on a 386DX25?  I cannot get it to work on mine.  With
>OS/2, it told me that there was some kind of access error involving the 386
>chip, but i don't really know exactly what all it said.  When I try to run
>it, I get some kind of register dump that I can't make any sense of.

I managed to get it to work with 8 megs of memeory, but with tiny
screen and low detail.  I onbly have 2 megs at home with same
processor, boo hoo.....
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Re: DOOM on a 386-25?

#1814

Author: nat... Nathan Christopher Pritch...
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 04:01

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In article <14JAN199...@zeus.tamu.edu> med...@zeus.tamu.edu (Mike Deal) writes:
>Is anyone running DOOM on a 386DX25?  I cannot get it to work on mine.  With
>OS/2, it told me that there was some kind of access error involving the 386
>chip, but i don't really know exactly what all it said.  When I try to run
>it, I get some kind of register dump that I can't make any sense of.
>
>Any ideas?
H
i have a 386dx25 with 5 meg of ram and doom works just fine, although it
is almost painfully slow unless i shrink the screen way down.  i prefer
to play it on my friend's 486dx266.  :)  it is much cooler.
anyway, does your error occur like halfway through the startup screen?
does it say:
<something about initializing something>.....
and then it suddenly stops and says something about an unexpected interrupt?
this used to happen to me.  all i could do was try running it again until it
worked.  even booting without loading anything into memory wouldn't work.
v. 1.1 has not given my this error, though.  i think it has something to
do with memory, though.  try just running it over and over a few times.  
maybe it'll work.  or so a completely clean boot.  no autoexec or config
or anything.  it needs like exactly 4 meg or something.  i've got a friend
with a 486dx33 with exactly 4 meg and he has to load from a boot disk.
mine works without a boot disk.  hope this gives you some leads.

Re: DOOM on a 386-25?

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Author: pho... Mike Huber
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 00:36

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> >Is anyone running DOOM on a 386DX25?  I cannot get it to work on mine.  With

> i have a 386dx25 with 5 meg of ram and doom works just fine, although it

I have it on a 386sx25 and it runs great.  I don't have to shrink the

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