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Opponent required
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 8:37 am
by AshTray
I never player with human opponent so if somebody want to teach me a lesson I'm ready to play
Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2003 5:38 pm
by afenelon
AshTray wrote:I never player with human opponent so if somebody want to teach me a lesson I'm ready to play
-I´m anxious to fight a human opponent in PW, but I have difficulties in runing the game due to the need of 640K of free memory. If you could help me then we could play.
Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2003 6:40 pm
by LargeSlowTarget
afenelon wrote:-I´m anxious to fight a human opponent in PW, but I have difficulties in runing the game due to the need of 640K of free memory. If you could help me then we could play.
afenelon - have a look at the Sticky 'Win XP, Win2000...Pacific War works!!! Read how!!'-thread at the top of this forum.
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 5:24 am
by afenelon
LargeSlowTarget wrote:afenelon - have a look at the Sticky 'Win XP, Win2000...Pacific War works!!! Read how!!'-thread at the top of this forum.
-I use Windows 98....
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 11:24 pm
by Capt. Harlock
In Windows 98, the keys to getting free DOS memory are the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. Open them with a text editor ("notepad" and "wordpad" both work), and see what TSR programs are being loaded. I personally get good results by deleting everything from both files and then putting
STACKS=0,0
into CONFIG.SYS.
If this doesn't work, open a DOS command window and use the command "MEM /C |MORE" to find out what's using your DOS memory.
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 3:58 am
by afenelon
Capt. Harlock wrote:In Windows 98, the keys to getting free DOS memory are the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. Open them with a text editor ("notepad" and "wordpad" both work), and see what TSR programs are being loaded. I personally get good results by deleting everything from both files and then putting
STACKS=0,0
into CONFIG.SYS.
If this doesn't work, open a DOS command window and use the command "MEM /C |MORE" to find out what's using your DOS memory.
-I tried it....didn´t work...only 580k of free memory
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:35 am
by Capt. Harlock
Do you know if Drivespace or DoubleSpace are being loaded? If you want to know all the details, enter the command:
MEM /D >FINDTSR.TXT
This will save the details of your DOS memory into a text file called "FINDTSR.TXT", which you can then read over. Or even cut and paste into a posted reply.
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 11:41 pm
by LargeSlowTarget
I have found copies of the autoexec and config files of my Win98-days in my 'ancient PacWar-versions save files' - and I also had deleted (or REMed out) everything in the config and autoexec files and it worked - had over 600k of conventional mem free then.
There is another thread on running older games that need EMS under Win98 at the Tech Support Forum. I'll try to locate the url. There, someone suggests that the config.sys should look like:
device=C:\Windows\Himem.sys
device=C:\Windows\EMM386.exe 4096 RAM
DOS=HIGH,UMB
Devicehigh=(your cd rom)
Maybe this helps...
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 11:52 pm
by LargeSlowTarget
Can find the thread, but strangely enough my browser does not show the correct url when using the forum search function?!? Anyway, search the Tech Support Forum for the user name 'RayM' and you should find the thread I'm talking about.
About EMS memory
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:22 am
by Capt. Harlock
To the best of my knowledge, Pacific War does not require Expanded or EMS memory. (All self-respecting programmers use XMS memory instead.) I would recommend using the NOEMS command instead of RAM on the "device=C:\Windows\EMM386.exe 4096 RAM" line. Better yet, unless you have real-mode drivers that need to be loaded into upper memory, delete the line altogether.