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First post, by Aymes

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I know you guys dont want people saying "Can you get X game working please?" and such but Ive been reading dosbox posts and downloading the latest version for well over a year now...and I just wanted to know:

Is it possible Impulse tracker will ever work on Dosbox?

Or is it somthing that just uses specialist cpu op codes or whatever? (obviously I dunno what im talking about here)

am I gonna have to break the bank and buy an additional PC? (urk)

Oh, and the first person to mention "Win32 Tracker" will receive a visit from the bother boys 😜

Great proggy tho guys! Was able to play BI2 again 😁

Reply 1 of 6, by Qbix

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I Though that runs for quite a while now. Not sure though. I think Harekiet knows more about it as he tests sometimes Trackers

Water flows down the stream
How to ask questions the smart way!

Reply 2 of 6, by HunterZ

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But Impulse Tracker runs fine in a Win2K/XP command prompt if you set up VDMSound properly... It's the XM tracker (crap, can't remember the name at the moment) that won't work.

Reply 3 of 6, by Aymes

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/me cries

I suffer from the big EMS problem lots of people are suffering from these days. I even installed win98 on my machine and that didnt let me use EMS either.

At the moment I can load chip tunes and anything under 50k in impulse tracker usualy, but apart from that... 🙁

Fast tracker works tho! But If you know anything about tracker's and their tracker's (um) then dont even suggest it 😜

thats why I was hoping dosbox will run it sometime, but I need to know if i can go on hoping 😀

Reply 4 of 6, by Kain

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Get a 486 and dos 5.22

Athlon Xp 1700+ @ 1.833ghz
ASUS A7N8X v1.4
Crucial 256mb Pc 2100 @ 166 mhz
Chaintech GeForce 4 Ti4200 128mb
Western Digital 40gb WD - 400
Windows 2000 Professional
Creative SB Live! 5.1 Dolby
Maxtop Case w/ 350w PSU

Reply 6 of 6, by Nicht Sehr Gut

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Originally posted by Aymes I suffer from the big EMS problem lots of people are suffering from these days.

Try this, create a file named GO.BAT and edit it to contain the single command MEM /C, the run it with VDMSound (right-click and choose Run with VDMS), it should report something like the following:
Conventional Memory :

Name Size in Decimal Size in Hex
------------- --------------------- -------------
MSDOS 13184 ( 12.9K) 3380
KBD 3296 ( 3.2K) CE0
EMM 176 ( 0.2K) B0
HIMEM 1248 ( 1.2K) 4E0
COMMAND 3152 ( 3.1K) C50
FREE 112 ( 0.1K) 70
FREE 633984 (619.1K) 9AC80

Total FREE : 634096 (619.2K)

Upper Memory :

Name Size in Decimal Size in Hex
------------- --------------------- -------------
SYSTEM 180208 (176.0K) 2BFF0
MOUSE 12528 ( 12.2K) 30F0
DOSX 34720 ( 33.9K) 87A0
FREE 256 ( 0.3K) 100
FREE 34336 ( 33.5K) 8620

Total FREE : 34592 ( 33.8K)

Total bytes available to programs (Conventional+Upper) : 668688 (653.0K)
Largest executable program size : 633712 (618.9K)
Largest available upper memory block : 34336 ( 33.5K)

4194304 bytes total EMS memory
4194304 bytes free EMS memory

20971520 bytes total contiguous extended memory
0 bytes available contiguous extended memory
16628736 bytes available XMS memory
MS-DOS resident in High Memory Area

Also, take a look at disabling features like BIOS-level USB support, as these often eat up memory locations.

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