First post, by cinemaholic
This question stems from a specific game, but is meant broadly as a dosbox question.
A warning pops up on one game about insufficient memory related to DPMI while in dosbox 0.70, but also references something called 'conventional memory' and 'initial environment'. The userguide for this game (Battlespire) suggests a solution for a dos box window in Windows 95, and my question is whether and how dosbox can emulate the same directions. The directions are as follows:
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This is the most common problem with running the
game. Around 99% of this can be traced back to an
improper properties setting of the Windows 95 DOS
box. In order to run the game from a Windows 95 DOS
box, you must configure it do so. Here is how:
Start up the DOS box like you normally would.
If the DOS box is full screen, make it windowed
by hitting the alt + enter key combination.
There is an icon in the toolbar of the DOS
window that looks like a hand holding up a sheet of
paper. This is the properties icon. Click on it.
Now you should be looking at the properties sheet
of the DOS box. There is a 'memory' tab near the
top of that sheet. Click on that.
Now you are looking at the memory properties of
the DOS box. Near the bottom is an area that is
labelled "MS-DOS Protected Mode (DPMI) Memory".
This value is normally set to "AUTO" when Windows
95 is installed. That won't work with Battlespire.
What you need to do here is to change this value
to '65535' by typing it in manually.
Near the top of the memory properties sheet is
an area that is labelled "Conventional Memory".
Inside that area is something called "Initial
environment". Change the value in there to 2048.
Now click on the 'OK' button, and close the DOS
box by typing 'exit' at the command prompt. The
next time you open up that DOS box, it will use
the new memory configuration. Battlespire will
now run without bombing out randomly.
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Can dosbox simulate these changes in dosbox.conf? There is no setting for 'conventional memory' or 'initial environment', so how could dosbox simulate these Windows 95 dos box changes?
