tomexplodes wrote on 2020-10-27, 21:12:

EDIT: Tried to make a boot disk, it complained it couldn't find dblspace.

That doesn't make any sense; in 6.22 dblspace was replaced by drvspace. How exactly did you try to make the boot disk?

Jorpho wrote on 2020-10-27, 21:28:

tomexplodes wrote on 2020-10-27, 21:12:

EDIT: Tried to make a boot disk, it complained it couldn't find dblspace.

That doesn't make any sense; in 6.22 dblspace was replaced by drvspace. How exactly did you try to make the boot disk?

Through the Betrayal at Krondor installer.

EDIT According to this, http://www.sierrahelp.com/Documents/TechDocum … stall_Guide.pdf

BaK needs 604,160 bytes conventional AND 1,048,576 bytes of EMS. SO I guess the question now is, how do I get that much EMS without losing too much conventional memory?

tomexplodes wrote on 2020-10-27, 21:38:

Through the Betrayal at Krondor installer.

I can't imagine why it would produce something that would produce an error message about missing dblspace. There are many other ways of creating a boot disk if you want to go that route.

BaK needs 604,160 bytes conventional AND 1,048,576 bytes of EMS. SO I guess the question now is, how do I get that much EMS without losing too much conventional memory?

It seem to me that removing the word NOEMS from your config.sys would be a good idea for starters.

You should also have a single line that says DOS=HIGH,UMB instead of two lines. (It should be after HIMEM but before EMM386, as in https://www.computerhope.com/ac.htm .) You also probably don't need CTMMSYS for Betrayal at Krondor, or SETVER.

Start with that and see if that fixes the problem. If not, please post screenshots of "mem /c /p". That is more helpful than just the output of "mem".

I actually sorted it out. I had to play around with memmaker manually for a bit, there was a bunch of crap it wasn't actually loading HIGH for no apparent reason. Now I have enough of both. Thanks for the help!

EDIT: ALSO! Krondor was designed with MSDOS 5 in mind, might be why it's looking for an outdated compression utility. Just in case that was gonna drive you nuts.