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Article #295Re: I've got Frontier, but it won't work!
From: dJ... Vandersmissen Wim
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 00:00
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On Sat, 9 May 1998 18:42:49 +0100, "Adam Newton" <pa...@littleangel.demon.co.uk> wrote: >Hi kids, > >I need help making Frontier run on my peecee, it worked fine on my Amiga, so >when I got a peecee, the first game I bought was Friontier on CDROM. > >BUT, in six months, the closest to making it work I've got is three lines of >error codes. > >I need a DOS mouse driver, and I don't know where to get one. > >also, it seems I have to set up my memory differently, something I've never >needed to do. > >"Unable to run Frontier - not enough free base memory available. Requires >580k free base memory to run." > >blah blah blah... > >But I've tried booting into an absolutely minimal configuration of DOS, but >it's still no joy, so I'm here to beg for you help. > >I use a P133 with 32meg memory, running the usual win95 gear. >A matrox mystique and an AWE64. > >Please giv me some pointers? Just check out the alt.fan.elite newsgroup FAQ, which is currently located at : http://www.randomword.demon.co.uk/rob/elite/afefaq.htm You should also subscribe to alt.fan.elite, which is where all die-hard Elite fans can be found ;p Wim (aka dJeez) --- "May the source be with you!" Wim Vandersmissen - dJ...@ping.be The Elite Project Programmers - http://tepprog.home.ml.org ---
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