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ma...@cimage.com (Mark Bernstein) writes:

Check and see if your motherboard bios has internal and/or external
cache.  I had to disable the internal cache before my older 8-bit SB
would function in my 486 at all.

>This is related to more than just adventure games, but it
>*does* relate to them, and I didn't get any responses 
>over in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games (very little traffic there).
>I hope someone out there can help.

>I just upgraded my motherboard and disk.  I went from a
>386DX33 to a 486DLC40, and from an MLM disk to an IDE.
>Now whenever I try to run either Wonderland or Spot,
>both by Virgin, my system locks up so badly that I have
>to hit the reset button--Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work.
>The machine has a Turbo button, so I've tried this at
>both speeds--no help.  No other games are having this
>sort of problem, and I have a fair number of them.
>Spot ran fine on the old system.  This is the first
>time I've installed Wonderland, since I didn't have
>enough disk before.

>Another problem, which is only slightly annoying 
>instead of deadly, is with the Sierra games (KQ5,
>SQ4, LSL5).  I have a SoundBlaster Pro, but if I
>configure the game to use the SoundBlaster, running
>the game gets me a message telling me it can't
>configure my music hardware, then the machine locks
>up and I have to reboot.  If I configure the game
>to use the AdLib driver instead, it runs okay.
>They ran fine on the old system, and I'm pretty sure
>they were configured for the SoundBlaster there.

>Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

>-- 
>Mark Bernstein
>ma...@cimage.com

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Joi Ellis                      ms...@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
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