This procedure worked for me, using the boot manager MasterBooter (www.masterbooter.com). I had a dual-booting Win2K / Win98 setup, with both O/S' seeing their root drive as C:\. 1. Install NT/2K/XP on the primary master drive; format to NTFS. THis will guarantee that the Win98 drive cannot see it. …

Of course, you could also use a third-party boot manager which would allow you to boot from the second hard drive (i.e. Win98) without having to reinstall XP. I did this a while back to make a dual-booting Win2K / Win98 system, with each O/S on a separare hard disk. The utility I used was called " …

can visual basic or similar read a dynamic link library? If what you're asking is can VB call the functions in a DLL - yes, depending on how the DLL is written. Visual Basic requires DLLs to handle their own stack clean-ups (also known as the 'stdcall' method'). A DLL written with the 'cdecl' …

It works! Apart from some occasional screen glitching, the game installed and plays perfectly in a Win98 DOS box, with sound and VESA! Thanks to all of you for your assistance! "I live ... again!"

Nothing like contradictory advice - way to go Infrogrames! :) I know that under Win98 'emulation' (i.e. Virtual PC 5 Trial) the game works fine, and under Win2000 in low-res/no-sound mode it works as well. Once I get Win98 installed, (hopefully) I won't have to drop to DOS mode to make it work - I …

http://www.ina-support.com/faq/blood_pc.asp Error Messages The following are some of the error messages that Blood reports when it encounters a problem with your system, and the recommended solutions to each. "Blood.ini not found" during installation of "One Unit Whole Blood" One Unit Whole Blood …

I found a posting on [url]http://www.planetblood.com,[/url] one user claims that One Unit: Whole Blood will *not* work under pure DOS, end of story. D'OH! I don't think it's possible to install Win9x on my new partition ... I might try it just for kicks, though. If I start Windows after booting from …

The game works fine in 320x200, with no sound, under Windows 2000, playing from the DOS partition installation. The demos load, no errors on startup, the game is 100% playable. In DOS mode, when I do a DIR, the file listing appears oddly: the first half of it looks fine, the second half of it …

Update: DOS SB16 emulation is now working. I found a more recent set of DOS-level drivers from an Australian website. Digital audio is good, and General MIDI works well with my default.ecw soundbank. It seems that the problem lies in the fact that the CD cannot be read in DOS mode! Only a handful of …

Here we go again! I'm now trying (desparately!) to get BLOOD working using 'real' DOS - DOS 7, anyway (Windows 98 direct-to-command-prompt). I'm using my One Unit : Whole Blood cd, v1.21. Problem 1: Win2000 system, with an NTFS system partition. No dual-boot for you! Workaround: Install second hard …

Oh well ... some you win, some you lose. Hopefully I can find *working* DOS drivers for my SBLive! that can act like an SB16 (have my doubts)... How to get natural DOS is another question. Can't really dual-boot, both of my current partitions are NTFS all the way. Thanks for the insight.

Thanks, that seemed to do the trick. Restarting the virtual Windows 98 machine and booting to a DOS prompt only (with the Virtual PC file sharing utility REMmed out) works, although the performance is sketchy at best. I did try to make a virtual DOS 6.22 machine, but I wasn't able to install the …

I'm trying to get BLOOD working under Virtual PC 5 build 350 trial. The parent system is Windows 2000 Professional, under which I've learned (in no small part thanks to this site!) BUILD games are horribly unusable. I've found that whenever I try to enable digital audio, the 'hardware' initializes …