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First post, by carlosn

Posted on 2005-01-11, 03:43

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I have a non-game app that I need help with. It is an off-line tool for theater lighting consoles (but that shouldn't matter) THose curious can find it at:
http://www.etcconnect.com/docs_downloads/soft … e/ObsOff510.EXE

I have gotten the application to work fine if I use a Win98 boot disk.

However, when I run it in DOSBox, I cannot get passed the initial welcome screen. It just seems to hang there using up 100% CPU.

I have already tried using a dynamic CPU core and turning off scaling. I"m at a loss of what else I could try, so any help is appreciated.

I'm running a P3 1GHZ with 640 MB memory (yes, I realize the irony)

Thanks!
Carlos

Reply 1 of 3, by MiniMax

Posted on 2005-01-11, 23:04

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Same result here 🙁

Some ideas for you to try, Carlos:

Try some of the earlies releases of Obsessions Off-line. Earlier versions may be more "DOS-like" than 5.1.
See if you can use boot DOSBox into real MS-DOS (or FreeDOS). You need to read up on the imgmount. More info on here and at the DOSBox Wiki.
Ask the people behind Obsession if they know about DOSBox, and how it might be worth their effort to get their DOS-only software to work on WinNT/XP/2K via DOSBox.

Reply 2 of 3, by carlosn

Posted on 2005-01-13, 04:03

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Thanks for taking the time to try this out, I appreciate the effort.

I tried using a true MS boot disk in DOSBox, and I get the error "program too large for memory" I think there may be some limitation to the DOS shell that the Windows based shell didn't have (or I did something wrong with my boot disks)

The vendor suggested I use VMWare, which currently has a free beta, so I guess that's the path I'll take.

Carlos

Reply 3 of 3, by MiniMax

Posted on 2005-01-13, 18:11

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carlosn wrote:
I tried using a true MS boot disk in DOSBox, and I get the error "program too large for memory"

I got that error too (with standard DOSBox). I fixed it by changing memsize in dosbox.conf to 32 (default is 16 MB).

That MS-DOS diskette - did you have things like HIMEM.SYS EMM386.EXE installed in your CONFIG.SYS file? How much memory do the real MEM command report?

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