First post, by ed_davis
1. Motherboard: don't know
2. Processor type and speed: AMD Athlon 64 1.99 GHz (from control panel, system)
3. Amount and type of RAM: 512MB
4. Video board w/ RAM amount and type: don't know
5. Sound board: don't know
6. Operating system: Windows XP Home, SP2
7. Game name (and version, if applicable): FoxPro for DOS, v2.0
8. Description of problem: Foxpro starts loading, but quits with a "not enough memory" error.
9. Reproducibility of problem: always
10. Sound mode used: default
11. Video mode (Software, OpenGL, Direct3D, or Glide, and resolution): default
12. Version of emulator: 0.72
13. Steps already attempted to solve the problem:
I have read the readme. I have searched the forums. I have searched on the wiki.
Here is what I have:
This is a runtime version of Foxpro that runs under DOS, and needs at least 4 megs of ram (according to the read.me - I'm not sure if this is extended or expanded).
The configuration under DOS, to get this to run seems to be pretty picky: Here are two versions that I know that work:
dos=umb,high
devicehigh=himem.sys
devicehigh=emm386.exe
and:
dos=umb,high
devicehigh=himem.sys /int15=4800
Again, this is under plain DOS - the one that you get if you just boot DOS instead of Win 98.
I've tried running it under a Windows 98 DOS prompt, with various settings for XMS/EMS memory (via the properties of the DOS prompt), but never got it to work.
I've tried running it under a Windows XP DOS prompt, with various settings for XMS/EMS memory (via the properties of the DOS prompt), but never got it to work.
So, I found out about DosBox, and decided to give it a try.
I have tried various settings of mem (4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 megs), and various settings of XMS/EMS (both true, both false, one false, the other true, and vice a versa), but so far no joy.
Based on what I've read on the forums, I thought of going the "boot a DOS image" route. So, I found a DOS 6.22 boot image on the internet and downloaded it.
I started DosBox. Then I typed boot c:\foo\dos622.img
And sure enough, it booted. To an a: drive. But I don't have access to any other drives.
1) How do I see the directory where I have FoxPro? I tried mounting c:\foxpro as c (where foxpro is) before booting the image, but after booting, all I have is an a: drive.
2) How do I get this image to use a different autoexec.bat and config.sys? Where do I place them, so that it will use them?
Thanks!