Hello all. I'm new here and I came here primarily to get help with MS Space Sim. I have the version downloaded from Underdogs at present (merely to test it out to see whether I should go buy a real copy off ebay or somewhere) and have been unable to get it to run under XP SP2. So I'm trying it under DOSBox and am getting a little farther than I had been with the DOS prompt in XP. I get this nice little "Error loading 2D driver" message. Don't get me wrong, I've read in a few different places that I have to replace a line in the msspace.ini file to read svga8.drv instead of svga.drv (used to read svgs.drv...damn typos....) to get it to work...small problem, and probably something to do with it coming from Underdogs...there is no msspace.ini file. The only ini file I find is spacesim.ini and there is no line that reads svga.drv in that.

Here's some technical details (some may be edited later to be more precise):

Motherboard: Shuttle AN-35. BIOS revision AN35S00J. nForce 2 400 + MCP.

Processor: AMD Duron 1600 MHz.

RAM: 1x Kingston PC2100 DDR SDRAM.

OS: WinXP Home, 2002 Edition recently upgraded with SP2.

Hard Drives:
---Primary: 1x Maxtor 60 GB HD (forget exact specs).
------Partitions:
1) 1.0 GB ext3.
2) 24 MB FAT16, formerly of a larger Linux SWAP partition. MSSpace Sim is currently located here, so I can use an old win95/98 boot disk to reach it (not that that has helped much...🙁 ). Also have a copy on partition 4 of this drive.
3) 1.51 GB Unpartitioned, formerly a part of a larger Linux SWAP partition.
4) 54.73 GB NTFS, currently has my OS and most of my core programs installed, has about 7.43 GB free.

---Secondary: 1x Seagate Barracudda 40 GB HD (or something along that, also forget exact specs).
------Partitions:
1) 27.27 GB NTFS, this is where I have some other programs installed as well as some other stuff.
2) 6.0 GB ext3. Forget whether this was/usr or /home...
3) 3.0 GB ext3. This would have been what 2 above was not...
4) 1.0 GB Linux SWAP as an extended partition for some reason...*blames Mandrake 10 installer*

Optical Drives:
---Primary: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8525B (according to Windows anyway, otherwise I have no model number). Speeds are: 52x32x52.
---Secondary: IDE DVD-ROM 16X (also according to Windows, as I have no model number).

Gfx: nVIDIA GeForce 4 MX 440 SE w/128MB DDR (not sure what type of DDR...🙁 )

Sound: Did I not mention the Mobo's chipset was that of the nFORCE 2? I am, however, using the Realtek AC '97 audio driver...so I can properly use my 5.1 surround sound speakers...speaking of which...*starts up a round of Master of Puppets*

Joystick: Don't see how this'd be important, but...MS Sidewinder Precision 2. Though I wasn't planning on using it for the game.

Keyboard: Logitech Internet Navigator Keyboard, USB. With failing TAB key and spacebar.

Mouse: a Kensington optical mouse, USB.

And done with system specs...I think...Probably more than anyone might need (once I get the mobo filled in correctly...*likes edit post feature*).
All partitions are primary unless otherwise stated. I have two (possibly three) installs of MS Space Simony the machine currently, and none of them work in windows, with win95/98 boot disks, or DOSBox (thoughI get farther with DOSBox).

I once had Mandrake 10 installed (as part of a multiboot system), but haven't been able to get back into it since a windows reinstall overwrote the boot sector and haven't had the time or inclination to reinstall the Mandrake.
I can provide a list of the files in the directory I have MS Space Sim currently installed...perhaps tommorrow after some sleep...and a reboot...

Any help would be apreciated.

Edit: Mobo info updated.
Edit: Some spelling corrected.