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Ishar III ...memory problem ?

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First post, by escarioth

Posted on 2017-07-10, 15:13

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here's the game 😀

it looks very good and i wanted to play it.
ive got an old 486 here so i wanted to play on for fun.

here's my memory (sorry french but i guess you can figure out)

i thought that i might have enough memory but i run into this problem.
Anyone know how much memory it takes to run the game ? 612k is quite good i guess...
so why is it not working 😮

anyone can help ? 🙁 thanks

even if they're old....those old dos games are still the best!!!

Reply 1 of 11, by collector

Posted on 2017-07-11, 00:21

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Reply 2 of 11, by Stiletto

Posted on 2017-07-11, 00:59

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Moved.

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Reply 3 of 11, by Jorpho

Posted on 2017-07-11, 03:10

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https://archive.org/stream/ISHAR_3/ISHAR_3_djvu.txt suggests you should use EMM386 NOEMS in your config.sys.

Reply 4 of 11, by derSammler

Posted on 2017-07-11, 08:57

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Don't use EMM386 at all.

Reply 5 of 11, by Jorpho

Posted on 2017-07-11, 11:29

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derSammler wrote:
Don't use EMM386 at all.

It says EMM386 in your screenshot!

Reply 6 of 11, by escarioth

Posted on 2017-07-11, 17:02

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ooh sorry , posted at the wrong place it would seem, thx for moving my topic Stilleto 😀
(and sorry for the mistake)

ah so Noems could help ? ill give it a try

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Reply 7 of 11, by derSammler

Posted on 2017-07-11, 18:25

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Jorpho wrote:
It says EMM386 in your screenshot!

What? This is either not addressed to me or you completely misunderstood my post. 😕

ah so Noems could help ? ill give it a try

Try without EMM386 at all first...

Reply 8 of 11, by escarioth

Posted on 2017-07-11, 19:11

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derSammler wrote:

ah so Noems could help ? ill give it a try

Try without EMM386 at all first...

nope, it says the exact same thing.
i remover the EMM386 line completely.
game crashes right after the logo.

even if they're old....those old dos games are still the best!!!

Reply 9 of 11, by Jorpho

Posted on 2017-07-12, 02:02

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derSammler wrote:
Jorpho wrote:
It says EMM386 in your screenshot!

What? This is either not addressed to me or you completely misunderstood my post. 😕

Oops. I thought you were the OP for some reason. 😅

Reply 10 of 11, by escarioth

Posted on 2017-07-12, 04:55

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Well, well, WELL.

it would SEEM that my floppy disc version
1- have broken files ? (weird, didnt get any errors while installing)
2- got something incompatible

because i decided to get a .iso for a test.
the iso was a mess. it would'nt even install.. but i could copy the files wich is perfect.
Put back my EMS on....its freaking works.

anyway, now ive got the coktel games problem to get rid of.
ill make a post about it tomorrow.
says i got like -1688k/100k so it cant play animations/sound properly (what kind of nonsense is that)

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Reply 11 of 11, by keropi

Posted on 2017-07-12, 08:27

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I am late to the party but maybe the game is one of those that have issues with more than 16mbytes of RAM?

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