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Help! Please having trouble running Pacific War in Windows and Dos provided by windows.
Pentium 2 266 64meg ram. Installs fine when loading exits out after viewing credits. Comes up with error message re illegal function.

No problems whatsoever with War in Russia.

Alas I have exactly the same problem.

Originally posted by Steve Embelton:
Help! Please having trouble running Pacific War in Windows and Dos provided by windows.
Pentium 2 266 64meg ram. Installs fine when loading exits out after viewing credits. Comes up with error message re illegal function.

No problems whatsoever with War in Russia.

Look back a month or two for threads about memory issues - you need to free up memory in the first 640k, as this is an old DOS game that cannot run outside this limit and it requires around 600-610 of the 640 free. If you can't find the threads, ask again, but a quick solution should be to comment out the entries (using rem on each line) of the autoexec and config files. Many of us can give more details if needed.


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Rick Bancroft
Semper Fi

To Steve Embelton:

I fixed my problem with the out of memory problems: I edited the config.sys (Win 98)now it looks like this,

DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE AUTO RAM MIN=0
DOS=HIGH,UMB
STACKS=0,0
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /E:1024 /P

Memory went from 597,something to 626,432

Originally posted by Don H:
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE AUTO RAM MIN=0

Try using the "highscan" option for emm386. It may get you some more high memory, allowing more stuff to get loaded high, freeing up low memory. It might also crash depending on your hardware, so be warned.

Have you tried running just the Pac.exe?
On my system the program goes weird if I try running it from the Matrix frontend but will run no problem in windows if I just run the Pac.exe file.
I have a pentium 2 800 and win 98SE.