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Re: I've got Frontier, but it won't work!

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From: dJ... Vandersmissen Wim
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)

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