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Article #606Re: Ultima Underworld demo from ftp.ulowell.edu: help!
From: ger... Jerry Gerace
Date: Mon, 18 May 1992 02:41
Date: Mon, 18 May 1992 02:41
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In article <1992May17.2...@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> bta...@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Brad Taplin) writes: >Hello. I just downlaoded uw_demo.exe from ftp.ulowell.edu and ran >it with apparently no problem. The subdirectories all appear to >have been correctly created, and the uwconfig.exe programs runs >fine as best I can tell, but after I configure it for slow and >PC speaker and then run uwdemo.exe I get the following message: > > Cannot run Underworld. > Out of EMS memory. Error code C001 > >My GateWay 386sx-16 includes four meg of on-board XMS and >on-board Paradise chipset SVGA with 512k. I know the game >requires serious power, but a 386sx was on the list given >by the uwconfig.exe program. Does uw_demo.exe require more >than four meg, and if so can I use virtual memory somehow? >Maybe the demo is dumber even than me and can't find XMS? > One can only assume that you're EMS driver is not installed or working right. It worked on my 386sx-16 with 3 megs of memory (using QEMM 386) so as long as your memory is set up to be used as EMS, you should be groovin. Ultima 7 uses it's own whizbang memory driver, as I suspect most Origin releases will start doing... Poo
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