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USS Ticonderoga and DOSBOX = memory fail?!

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First post, by blackbook

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Hey guys. I'm trying to get USS Ticonderoga to work on DOSBOX, but everytime I load the damn thing, I get a 'resource' and a 'memory' error. I've mounted the disk in both virtual and physical forms and I just get this;

http://img514.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ussticoug1.jpg

Now, what the hell is that about?

Thanks for any heads up and hopefully, I'll be banging this game out today!

(If you want to download the game and try it yourself, you can grab a copy here - [Link removed by moderator] )

Reply 1 of 4, by ih8registrations

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Try loadfix.

Reply 2 of 4, by blackbook

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did nothing 🙁

Reply 3 of 4, by MiniMax

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Not a movie download, but still...

Reply 4 of 4, by rcblanke

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The game works fine here, although I also have the memory detection failure.

While I don't understand the resource-file problem you have, I can tell you the cause of the reported memory issue.
The game's bat file (tico.bat) does a

c:\dos\mem > testmem

and then runs the game executable to check if the output of the mem command was ok (talk about a crappy implementation). DOSBox does not have a mem.exe in c:\dos, and is does not output in exactly the same format as ms-dos, so the memory detection fails.
Using the real mem.exe from ms-dos 6.22 in the game folder, and adjusting the batch file to include

set dos 6 22
mem > testmem

makes the memory detection work correctly.

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