DDrawCompat appears to do the trick for both Jinni Zeala and Monster Fair. Thanks very much!

I hadn't tried that. Just did and it doesn't appear to make any difference... Appreciate the suggestion, though.

I've been trying the LittleWing pinball games on some newer Windows systems. Surprisingly, most of them run just fine. There are two, however, that run but have too much lag to be very playable. Interestingly, the two with problems are neither the oldest or the newest releases. In chronological …

Thanks, that did the trick. And just to clarify for any future readers of this thread, you only need to copy the contents of the game directory on the CD. You don't need any of the files at the top level of the CD. Once you've copied the files from the game directory to a directory on your hard …

Turns out the problem was I had forgotten the "RAM" parameter to EMM386.EXE. I had: DEVICE=EMM386.EXE 4096 which gave me 4mb of expanded memory but no upper memory (UMBs). Changing that line to: DEVICE=EMM386.EXE 4096 RAM enabled upper memory which allowed drivers to be loaded high and freed up …

Could someone point me to a guide on how to get Master of Magic to run on a MSDOS 6 PC (i.e. not in DOSBox)? With a stripped down config, and mem reporting 583K of free conventional memory, I'm still getting the dreaded "Insufficient memory. You need at least 581K free. Try removing all TSR's." ( …

My kids loved these Busytown games when they were that age. In fact, my now almost 15 year-old son saw "How Things Work in Busytown" on one of my DOS machines recently and sat down and played it for a long time... and so the nostalgia gaming begins.