03-16-2007
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 Existing   | Need help with old game So, I found an old game of mine (X-Wing, and decided to install it. However, it says that I do not have enough memory. Keep in mind that this game is from 1992. I found this in the readme: Quote:
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03-16-2007
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 Wedding Planner    Sponsor   | Re: Need help with old game You might try Dosbox to emulate DOS, but I'm not sure if it will work. Essential Utilities: Programs you may need to play the games! ---------------- Hypography Science Forums Moderator --- "There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." - Marshall McLuhan "We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it." - Marie Curie | |
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03-16-2007
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| Wedding Planner Sponsor | Dosgames This thread might help, but browsing through, it seems hit or miss. XMS / EMS allocation problem An interesting comment from "Guest" on page 5 which holds some validity in my experience: Quote:
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03-21-2007
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 Resident USSRian    | Re: Dosgames you could make a custom freedos cd and put the game on there and then reboot your or any computer into the cd and play your game  ---------------- And remember that great question that Pierre-Simon Laplace and Sir Isaac Newton, Andrei Markov and David Hilbert, Richard Feynman and Enrico Fermi, Albert Einstein and Edmund Halley did not come to ask throughout all of their dedication and work: "Who the hell is IMing me?"  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.  | |
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03-21-2007
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| Resident USSRian | Re: Dosgames its not that hard either, you will need iso edditing tools tho, but its all described on the freedos website, and there are tonns of tutorials out there for it ---------------- And remember that great question that Pierre-Simon Laplace and Sir Isaac Newton, Andrei Markov and David Hilbert, Richard Feynman and Enrico Fermi, Albert Einstein and Edmund Halley did not come to ask throughout all of their dedication and work: "Who the hell is IMing me?" This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. | |
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03-21-2007
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 Creating | Re: Dosgames Awww, the problem's solved? and here I was getting all hot at the idea of booting into DOS prompt and setting up emm386... Glad you're up and running man. ---------------- Sometimes a Hypography Forum Administrator "With a big enough engine, even a brick will fly." -Law of Aerospace | |
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