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Re: Boot disk problem!!!

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From: Eric Ashcroft aka The Ancient On...
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 ...

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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
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