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Sideline (shooter) - hangs after Intro

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First post, by powerzx

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Hi!
This is my first post here, so i hope that i post in proper section 😀

I have a problem with game Sideline (from 1997 i think).
It is a very rare shooter game. I did not find any information about it on the Internet, so I will put links in case, if you do not have this game to test.
http://www.mediafire.com/?nz1b8125iug9l60
http://www.mediafire.com/?j8spc6s1csk78g9
http://www.mediafire.com/?um713a5amhykyjd

1. GA i945GCM-s2l
2. C2D E2160
3. 2GB DDR2
4. GF 9600GT 512MB
5. Audigy
6. WIN XP
7. Sideline
8. Black screen after "Stage 1 screen", only music works
9. Always
10. All options, sound on or off doesn't matter.
11. Software 320x200, 320x240
12. version 0.74
13. I tried changing memory size, vram size, editing ini files from game and nothing helped.

PS.If you got error that file c:\api4gw.swp can not be created
then change path for VirtualMemorySwapFileName in file Api4GW.ini

Reply 1 of 2, by ripsaw8080

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The game halts during loading with a message in polish about installing a memory manager (I think). The sound setup crashes with illegal memory accesses reported in the console. Both problems are solved by loading either the EMM386 or JEMM memory manager. I suspect the game wants V86 mode or VCPI services.

You can get JEMM here. Change the DOSBox memory settings to xms=false ems=false umb=false and then load JEMM in DOSBox with the command "JEMMEX NOEMS LOAD". After that the game and its sound setup appear to work fine in DOSBox 0.74 and SVN.

The game has a clear 1996 copyright on its title screen. Unless you are certain the game has been released as freeware by the rights holder, you should not be providing it for download anywhere, much less here on vogons.

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