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First post, by AndrewP

Posted on 2005-01-28, 13:29

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First off my hardware:
AMD Athlon XP 2500+
Abit Nforce 2 motherboard (NF7-S v2)
1Gb PC3200 DDR RAM (2*512Mb)
Radeon 9500NP running as a 9700 (128Mb memory)
Onboard AC97 Sound
Windows XP Pro w/SP1

In Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic (GNB1) the CD version, using DOSBox 0.63 I get the same error everytime after running gnbna386.exe:

1initCOUNT=0 
2LESS THAN 1MB FREE DISK SPACE

Happens everytime, same thing when on my spare PC. The CD is mounted correctly as d in the emulator, sound in the game is turned off. Thought it might have been a memory issue, tried using loadfix and disabling xms/ems - no dice. Mounted my C drive with differing amounts of free space - same error.

I have read that people have got it working using DOSBox and once of this error being reported but have never seen a solution so any help is much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Andrew

Reply 1 of 3, by mirekluza

Posted on 2005-01-28, 14:08

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As usually: write *PRECISELY* what you did (I mean commands to mount etc).
I hope you did not forget to mount a harddisc (?!)...

Mirek

Reply 2 of 3, by AndrewP

Posted on 2005-01-28, 14:15

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mount c c:\ (with assorted -freespace/-space parameters)
mount d c:\gnb1\cd -t cdrom (CD files copied to HDD) or mount d d:\ -t cdrom (CD in drive)
c:\gnb1\gnbna386.exe -fullscreen

Reply 3 of 3, by dvwjr

Posted on 2005-02-01, 17:02

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Here is the D-Fend v2 front-end 'profile' for DOSBOX v0.63 that I have succesfully used to run GNBNA v1.2 (patched).

[Extra]
CloseOnExit=1
Loadhigh=0
Exe=C:\DosGames\GNBNA\GNBNA386.EXE
Setup=C:\DosGames\GNBNA\SOUND.EXE
CustomSettings=
SyncUpDown=0
autoexec=
GameParameters=EMS
SetupParameters=
LoadFixVal=0

[cpu]
cycles=4500
core=normal
cycleup=500
cycledown=20

[dosbox]
machine=vga
memsize=4
language=

[sdl]
output=surface
fullscreen=false
fulldouble=true
fullfixed=true
fullresolution=640x480
hwscale=1.00
autolock=true
sensitivity=90
waitonerror=true
priority=higher,normal
mapperfile=mapper.txt

[render]
scaler=interp2x
frameskip=0
aspect=true

[sblaster]
type=sbpro2
base=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
mixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplrate=44100

[gus]
gus=false
rate=22050
base=240
irq1=5
irq2=5
dma1=1
dma2=1
ultradir=C:\ULTRASND

[midi]
mpu401=false
intelligent=true
device=default
config=

[speaker]
pcspeaker=false
pcrate=22050
tandyrate=22050
disney=false

[dos]
xms=false
ems=true

[mixer]
nosound=false
rate=44100
blocksize=2048
prebuffer=10

[modem]
modem=false
listenport=23
comport=COM2

[directserial]
directserial=false
Comport=COM1
realport=1
defaultbps=1200
parity=N
bytesize=8
stopbit=1

[ipx]
ipx=false

[ExtraInfo]
Genre=Naval Battles
Developer=10 Group
Publisher=SSI
Year=1992
Notes=Neal's game he wishes to use...[13][10][13][10]Vint[13][10]

[Export]
notes=This works with the originally floppy-disk version which was updated to 1.2 of GNBNA along with the extra floppies which made it the same as the CD version. The GNBNA386.EXE file was patched to remove the need to look up 'activation' codes in the original manual. (Copy protection).[13][10][13][10][13][10]dvwjr[13][10]
profilename=Great Naval Battles of the Atlantic

Works fine on a 2.8gHz Pentium IV...

Good luck,

dvwjr

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