First post, by khill0
Regarding the information in this thread:
I'm in the same boat. I had 1830 and Master of Magic working pretty well - 1830 esp. just rocked with VDMSound. Then, I upgraded my MB to an nforce board. Now, like the poster in the referenced thread above, I can't seem to get any EMS.
1830 returns the message:
"You must have at least 2700K of expanded memory."
System details:
MB = Asus A7N8X Deluxe
Chip = AMD 2500+ (not overclocked)
RAM = 512MB
Video = PNY Nvdia Ge4 Ti4200 w/128MB
Sound = Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
OS = Windows XP SP1
Output of MEM from VDMSound:
Conventional Memory :
Name Size in Decimal Size in Hex
------------- --------------------- -------------
MSDOS 12256 ( 12.0K) 2FE0
KBD 3296 ( 3.2K) CE0
HIMEM 1248 ( 1.2K) 4E0
COMMAND 3888 ( 3.8K) F30
DOSX 34720 ( 33.9K) 87A0
KB16 6096 ( 6.0K) 17D0
FREE 112 ( 0.1K) 70
FREE 720 ( 0.7K) 2D0
FREE 592768 (578.9K) 90B80
Total FREE : 593600 (579.7K)
Upper Memory :
Name Size in Decimal Size in Hex
------------- --------------------- -------------
SYSTEM 221168 (216.0K) 35FF0
MOUSE 12528 ( 12.2K) 30F0
FREE 28384 ( 27.7K) 6EE0
Total FREE : 28384 ( 27.7K)
Total bytes available to programs (Conventional+Upper) : 621984 (607.4K)
Largest executable program size : 591840 (578.0K)
Largest available upper memory block : 28384 ( 27.7K)
8388608 bytes total contiguous extended memory
0 bytes available contiguous extended memory
4045824 bytes available XMS memory
MS-DOS resident in High Memory Area
So, what can I do to my MB to get it to make EMS available?
Yes, I've tried dosbox and it works OK. The problem with dosbox is that it doesn't seem to use the software MIDI emulation not the very nice Santa Cruz MIDI (and daughterboard.) Maybe I'm not using dosbox correctly but the docs on dosbox aren't exactly explicit on how it uses MIDI.
Thanks, Ken