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Need for Speed SE and the MDA memory range

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For the longest time I couldn't figure out why the orignal game would work fine but Special Edition wouldn't run the installer or the game on my K6-2+ 98SE/DOS machine. After a bunch of experiementation, I narrowed it down to the game not working if I=B000-B7FF is is set as an included memory range for EMM386.

I'm curious if this is a quirk in my system or if this is more generalised, has this happened to anyone else?

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Reply 1 of 1, by Harry Potter

Posted on Yesterday, 23:13

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Well...a long time ago, I was thinking about writing some games for DOS, and my PCGPE docs indicated that the VGA card had a feature that lets the system use 128k VRAM at a time. Maybe the game uses that feature. Does the game work on other systems that use that config?

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