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Article #71115Re: Boot disk problem!!!
From: Eric Ashcroft aka The Ancient On...
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 00:00
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don�t think 590 conventional is enough. i needed at least 600 as far as i remember ... -- Eric Ashcroft aka The Ancient One ancie...@cyberdude.com ---- If Christ had died in the 20th century, Catholics would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks. - Lenny Bruce ---- The Ancient One�s Realm http://rover.wiesbaden.netsurf.de/~ancient/index.html navid schrieb in Nachricht ... >I am having problems running Betrayal at Krondor on my computer. Pentium >II 300, 64 MB RAM, and STB Velocity 128. OS is Win 95. I have tried the >"make boot disk" option in install.exe but all I get is a stupid error >message stating "This game requires 1482 K of extended memory and your >machine does not have enough." I would also like to free up as much >conventional and expanded memory as possible as I get a message stating >"You do not have enough memory to run Betrayal at Krondor. Try using the >Make Boot Disk option from INSTALL."--YEAH RIGHT!!! I ran mem and here >are the results: >589,392 bytes free of conventional memory >0 free of upper >0 free for reserved >65,826,816 free Extended (XMS)--Why the hell does it say I don't have >enough extended memory?! >I also have a bunch of modules using up memory below 1 MB: >MSDOS is taking up 33K >vmm32 is taking up 11K >emm386 is taking 10K >These are by far the 3 greatest offenders. My free expanded (EMS) is 16M >out of a total 63M. >I will provide my config.sys and autoexec.bat once I get an e-mail. >Please e-mail me and help a fellow novice gamer out. I hate DOS games >and try to avoid them like the plague, but this game is a classic and >must be played no matter what. >Thank you very much. >-- >Navid >nav...@nospamrocketmail.com >(kindly remove the "nospam")
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From: "Eric Ashcroft aka The Ancient One" <ancie...@cyberdude.com> Subject: Re: Boot disk problem!!! Date: 1998/07/14 Message-ID: <35acd072.0@juno.wiesbaden.netsurf.de> X-Deja-AN: 371713247 References: <MPG.1014c81e15f2e63698968b@news.okeechobee.com> Newsgroups: alt.games.classic-crpgs,alt.games.rpg,alt.games.sierra,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,de.rec.games.computer,rec.games.computer X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit