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First post, by bbatman

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Hi,

i have found 2 other threads for the clou but there was no answer so the same question or problem i have at the moment.

The Memory Configuration is not workink he is telling i have tired a lot with the settings in the dosbox conf but it did not work since now,

the other threads where older so i hoped that anybody has found a soltions to share with me, i am running ver 0.6 on an unix box.

so if anybody could help me

Reply 1 of 7, by robertmo

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from "the cule!" install.inf:

Problem: The system crashes or the program aborts or doesn't start.

Solution:You don't have enough free memory. Don't start the game
from utilities like Norton Commander or PC TOOLS. Exit that
programs and start the game directly from the DOS.
Maybe you don't have installed XMS memory. If you use the EMM386
or QEMM386 it is possible that the memory is declared as EMS
memory. Please change the line in your CONFIG.SYS to

DEVICE = C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
or
DEVICE = C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS D=64

If you are not quite sure about this changes in your CONFIG.SYS
please use your PC instruction manual.
Change into the directory where you have installed THE CLUE! and
type SETUP >ENTER<.

Maybe you are using utilities which are installed resident in
memory. For example DOSKEY or anything similar. Please remove
such programs from your AUTOEXEC.BAT.

If you have any memory-problems please check the following lines
in your CONFIG.SYS:

RIGHT
=====
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS

DOS=HIGH

WRONG
=====
REM DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\EMM...
or
...EMM386.EXE 1024

DOS=UMB
or
DOS=HIGH,UMB

If you get the errormessage NOT ENOUGH MEMORY FREE, although you
have enough conventional and XMS memory free, you will need more UMB
memory. Please delete all programs which use UMB memory!

Reply 2 of 7, by robertmo

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Harekiet said:

dosbox doesn't have any umb's most of the UMB areas are used by dosbox's dos emulation and other emulation related things. But i seriously doubt the game would need UMB's especially with dosbox having 630 kb free low memory.

Harekiet please read the above post 😀

in dos 6.2 i get 617k with settings:
himem.sys
emm386.exe noems
dos=high
ctmouse
sound blaster takes no memmory

dosbox gives 637k

I think you can get much more from umb than 20k.

Last edited by robertmo on 2004-01-29, 13:21. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 3 of 7, by robertmo

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There is a patch for english version of the game that makes it run without UMB.

By the way:
Someone said that he hears no sound in the game. From the game's readme it seems that it requires ct-voice.drv to run. So search the forum for Innocent Until Caught (same problem with this game).

Reply 5 of 7, by robertmo

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The game doesn't run in:
-DOSBox,
-WinXP (at least I cannot force it to run 😉 )
The game runs in:
-Dos 6.2,
-Win98SE (even with 546k of conventional mem free. It seems that the game is really obsessed with UMB 😀 )

Reply 6 of 7, by bbatman

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i hope that in a future version of dosbox it will run, i will wait, or i will try to install dos 6.22 in an vmware system,

but i have a furhter question, i have had a lot of old games but when i changed to unix i lost them.

can anybody tell me where to get old games?

i have tried to find black gold, the coal game not the oil game at ebay and so on but cant find do you know if there is an copyrigth on so old games?

or can anybody tell me a store where to buy some or where to download some?