Zup wrote:Penthouse hot numbers. I had a pirate versión that I was never able to make work. I remember that it needed some specific vídeo […]
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Penthouse hot numbers. I had a pirate versión that I was never able to make work. I remember that it needed some specific vídeo card, but...
Star Rangers (Interactive Magic). I still have the CD ROM somewhere. it always complained about memory. It didn't matter how much memory was installed (from 8 Mb onwards), nor how much was free. It never worked.
Both games were tested in a 486 DX2/66 (8Mb, Trident 9400CXi), another 486DX2/66 (16Mb, integrated ET4000) and a Pentium II 333Mhz (128Mb, ATI Rage and later a Voodoo Banshee).
Apart this games, I don't remember having DOS games that didn't work in DOS.
Update: Both games seems to work fine in DOSBox.
I've downloaded Penthouse Hot Numbers from an abandonware site. Installation don't work, but the game can be played without installing it.
Star Rangers works without trouble (installation and game), but it needs to be mounted with -t cdrom option.
It was tested with stock DOSBox 0.74. The VGA card is configured as S3, memory is configured as 16 Mb extended and 16 Mb expanded.
Update 2: Tested again with PCem v14, and they worked. The test machine is a 486DX/33 with 8Mb RAM, a Trident 8900D (first I've tested it with a ET4000) and MS-DOS 6.22. I wonder why they didn't work back in time...
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