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First post, by bjwil1991

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I copied the games I have that I purchased from either Steam.com or GOG.com, and most of them work without issues. However, upon further investigation, Aladdin, Jungle Book, and Lion King games I got from GOG.com don't work with the following:

1) No sound (Lion King)
2) XMS allocation error (Aladdin, and possibly Jungle Book)

In DOSBox, they work without issues, but, they lag on my laptop, making it impossible to play those games.

Does anyone have the appropriate files for Aladdin, Lion King, and Jungle Book, as well as fix an issue with the XMS error message? I'm attempting to run the games in pure MS-DOS mode, not Windows 95C.

Specs:

Manufacturer: Packard Bell
Model: Pack-Mate 28 Plus
Motherboard: PB450
RAM: 32MB SIMM-72* (2x 16MB SIMM-72)
CPU: Intel i486 DX4-100 OverDrive 5V
GPU: Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428 1MB vRAM
Sound0: IBM PC Speaker
Sound1: Lo-tech Tandy 3-voice compatible Sound card
Sound2: Sound Blaster 16 CT2740 w/ Yamaha DB50XG Daughterboard GM/XG
Sound3: Music Quest MPU401 clone card (Roland MT-32 is disconnected at the moment)
NIC: 3Com EtherLink III 3C509-TP
FDD: Epson SD-800 Dual floppy drive (A: 3.5" 1.44MB, B: 5.25" 1.2MB)
HDD: SanDisk 2GB CF Card
ODD: Apple 32x CD-ROM (IDE)
OS: Windows 95C + MS-DOS 6.22

* Disabled the on-board memory

Edit: The games now work without issues. Thanks for all of your help.

Last edited by bjwil1991 on 2018-09-15, 04:34. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 1 of 7, by dr_st

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I know that Aladdin does not run if there are more than 32MB of free XMS memory. Use EATXMS or a RAM Drive. Jungle Book should have no such problems (just tested in DOSBox). Does it display an error message? Not sure about the Lion King - maybe all the sound devices confuse it? Did you run its sound setup via INSTALL.EXE and configure the correct base address / IRQ / DMA for the Sound Blaster?

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Reply 2 of 7, by bjwil1991

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I tried running the install file and it wouldn't let me set the sound card since it gives me an error. I think the issue is the games were meant for DOSBox.

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Reply 3 of 7, by dr_st

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You're not going to get a lot of useful help without providing more information about what errors you're actually getting...

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Reply 5 of 7, by bjwil1991

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In Aladdin, I get "XMS Initialization Error." Got the message when I set the DOSBox memory to 36MB (this is the issue) and setting it to 32MB or less works.

Also, editing the .CFG files for the two games made it possible for me to access the sound blaster parameters and change the IRQ from 7 to 5. I will copy those config files onto a diskette and copy them to the appropriate folder on my Packard Bell and disable the other 4MB on-board RAM as well.

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Reply 6 of 7, by bjwil1991

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Solved the issue. I disabled the on-board RAM and it went from 36MB to 32MB, and all 3 games play sound and are launching without issues. I also took the liberty of changing the cfg file for the Lion King for the sound card beforehand. Thank you all.

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Reply 7 of 7, by Azarien

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You don't need to physically remove RAM, use something (like EATXMS as suggested above, or SMARTDRV with buffers big enough) that will allocate some so that Aladdin doesn't choke with more than 32 MB free.