VOGONS


First post, by beepfish

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Bit of an odd error. I have a system based around a Chaintech 6VIA5T motherboard. I have a vortex2 SuperQuad soundcard with a MIDI daughterboard. Windows 98SE. The vortex2 is emulating an sb pro and has its midi port at 330.

I can select DOS midi as "wavetable" for the daughterboard or "mpu401" for an external device, but I think either way it resides at 330.

When I run this old DOS warcraft game, I can set the sound and music cards. I set it to use GM and set the MIDI address to 330.

If I set the DOS midi device to the mpu401, the game seems to play OK but of course I don't get music.

If I set the DOS midi device to wavetable, the game calls up OK but when the first is loading it crashes. Sometimes it's a BSOD that clears, but on exiting the game Windows has crashed [it locks]. Sometimes the game itself actually crashes to what looks like 20x20 text mode with a lot of error messages, the first part of which reads:

DOS/4GW transfer stack overflow

The only other old game I've tried is Heretic but that runs OK - ie. I get music played via the daughterboard.

Any ideas?

Reply 1 of 4, by Gamecollector

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1) I hope you OWN the game, because abadonware not supported here.
2) What are memory sizes in the .pif file for war.exe?
3) Try another DOS extender, like dos32a.

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Reply 2 of 4, by beepfish

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Yes I have a real CD, bought from a retailer years ago.

I've got all the memory sizes set to auto in the pif.

The program runs ok if I exit to dos, but not from within 98se either by clicking the pif icon or by running the .exe from a dos prompt.

I'll look for this dos32a you mention.

Reply 3 of 4, by h-a-l-9000

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Use fixed cycles.

1+1=10

Reply 4 of 4, by beepfish

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dos32a did the trick...many thanks!