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Anyone know if it's possible to get Pirates! Gold running in DOSbox? It just keeps crashing on start up for me.
Anyone know if it's possible to get Pirates! Gold running in DOSbox? It just keeps crashing on start up for me.
runs fine.
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Hi Qbix. Would you mind posting the config file you use to run Pirates! Gold? Thanks
EDIT: Nevermind. It wasnt running because I had the memory settings too high. It was on 64megs but works fine when dropped down to 16mb. Cheers
try 63 mb
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Hey, look at that... It works on 63mb.. 🤣 curious.
if you put 64 mb in dosbox it actually is 65 mb 😀
as dosbox has always 1 mb low mem and you specify the amount of highmem
in the configfile. I think I will change this in the next version as there are more games failing with 64 mb.
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I guess these old dos games just dont know what to do with themselves for all that extra memory 🤑
wrote:I guess these old dos games just dont know what to do with themselves for all that extra memory 🤑
It's a typical bug, found in many old programs: when checking the amount of memory, the programs store the # of free KB's in a 16-bit integer, which can hold numbers up to 65535. When having > 64 MB (i.e. 65535 KB) of memory, this overflows, resulting in the error.
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Interesting. Didn't know about that. 😎
My Pirates! Gold keeps on crashing after i start a new career and choose a nationality. Error message is Exit to error: Pagefault didn't correct page. I'm using 0.63 on linux. Tried with nosound / noems etc. Does this game work anymore?
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wrote:if you put 64 mb in dosbox it actually is 65 mb 😀
as dosbox has always 1 mb low mem and you specify the amount of highmem
in the configfile. I think I will change this in the next version as there are more games failing with 64 mb.
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I don't think what Qbix said is right:
64*1024kB=65536kB
You have to substract 1024kB of conventional memory (and also 64kB of HMB) and the result will be 64448kB. And that was what dosbox showed after typing mem when you had set mem=64 in dosbox.conf in dosbox 0.61 for example.
uhm yes the amount of ems memory that is.
but there is still that lowmem
Any way the limit is now 63 mb.
1 mb lowmem
63 mb highmem (memsize=63)
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I tested Pirates! Gold on my xp laptop, and it works fine, but in linux (fc2) it still crashes on the beginning. Both are using version 0.63 and same game files. Conf files are same in both versions.
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Hi guys, tried the settings above under macosx. Getting my mem=16 set up correctly and everything, but still have installer quiting on me. The x32mem utility on the installer disk also quits when 'checking my memory setup'
Has anyone gotten this running under MacOSX 10.3?
Any tricks?
Thanks,
Ryan