Re: Wing Commander II just hangs?? HELP!

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From: lac... Lachlan Cranswick
Date: Wed, 20 May 1992 00:28

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k...@solbourne.com (Ken Sullivan) writes:

>Hi,

>I am running WingCommander II from a Stacker drive. It runs just fine,
>but when I select exit to DOS, it hangs, leaving the "exiting to DOS"
>on the screen.  The only way I can recover is to ctl-alt-del :-(

>Does anybody have a clue as to why this is happening??  I have COMSPEC
>defined.  What am I leaving out??  This instructions leave a lot to be
>desired about system configuration.  BTW this is on a Gateway 2K 486/33
>w/ 16MB ram.

>KJ Sullivan
>k...@solbourne.com
>insert std disclaimers here ................


Try running with the turbo button off.  Also, did you load WCII with
the files unpacked (15meg of space) or packed (~11 meg of space)
because you may be unpacking files twice from a stacker drive 
and this is causing problems.  Also, find what version of EMM386
you are using and the specification.  WCII likes to see 
expanded memory.  Occasionally, I have had a crash with a 486 with 
the turbo button off, but it was intermittent.  
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