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Lotus 123 version 3.1+ under DOSBox

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First post, by Steve Adler

Posted on 2005-03-21, 17:09

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I have searched through various forums in DOSBox and can't find an answer I can understand. (I'm not a computer whiz like most of you who use this forum.)

I am trying to run a DOS program that requires 1MB of RAM consisting of 640KB of conventional memory and 384 KB of extended memory. The program is Lotus 123 version 3.1+.

My computer runs on xp home and has a an AMD Athlon 4 1.1 processor. It has 528MG of RAM and a 40 gig hard drive.

When I try to load the program with DOSBox, I see the program's logo, but then the screen goes to a c prompt with the message "vm error [38] internal error.

When I try to load the program from the command line in XP Home, the program loads, but the text on the screen is very distorted.

I had been able to load the program from the command line in XP Pro on a different computer, and it also worked in Windows 98 from a DOS prompt.

If things have been posted about how to change the configuration of DOSBox, I either didn't understand them or they did not seem pertinent.

Any help for an old guy would be much appreciated.

Thank you,

Steve Adler

Reply 1 of 7, by Qbix

Posted on 2005-03-21, 17:13

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well I recently fixed a lotus program but that was in the 2.x serie.

if you want extended memory then you must disable both xms and ems in dosbox.

Good luck.

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Reply 2 of 7, by Guest

Posted on 2005-03-21, 17:31

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I guess I don't need to know what XMS and EMS are, but could you tell me how I disable them in DOSBox?

Thank you,

Steve Adler

Reply 3 of 7, by Qbix

Posted on 2005-03-21, 17:38

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we have a nice configfile called dosbox.conf
there you will find

[dos]
xms=true
ems=true

change those true things to false.

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Reply 4 of 7, by lwc

Posted on 2005-03-21, 23:29

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Strange topic title you picked up...

Anyway, don't forget that you'll need to have that custom DOSBox.conf in the folder in which you launch DOSBox (e.g. if you prepared a special shortcut for Lotus that starts in Lotus' folder).

That is, unless you've defined DOSBox in your OS' path, of course.

Reply 5 of 7, by ASM

Posted on 2005-03-22, 07:16

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if you want extended memory then you must disable both xms and ems in dosbox.

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Isn't XMS=Extended Memory? So why do we have to disable it to get extended memory?

Reply 6 of 7, by Guest

Posted on 2005-03-22, 07:28

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Isn't XMS=Extended Memory?

No, it's not. Extended memory is everything above 640k. XMS is just a matter to organize and access it in a common way.

Reply 7 of 7, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2005-03-22, 08:21

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lwc wrote:
Strange topic title you picked up...

Right. Your wish is my command. Moving to appropiate section too.

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