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navid wrote:
> 
> 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")

First off, you need to boot to the disk only.  Turn the computer
completly off then put the disk in the drive.  Reason I say this is
because vmm32 shouldn't be in memory.

Next, you Config.sys should read:
Device=emm386.exe /4096
Dos=High, Umb

Autoexec should be empty.

Try the above (rather simple) config any see if it works.  (You'll also,
of cource, have to add in Dos based soundcard drivers to Config and
Autoexec, but without knowing what card you using I can't help there.

Chris Woods who remembers trying to make Ultima 7 work.  What a waste of
time that was.