After playing around inside ALL the settings possible in PocketDOS, I couldn't get Dark Forces to play any faster at ALL. So, I think I'm going to have to stop trying with that one... I know it may seem I gave up kinda quickly but I did try every setting and the entire readme. Even if I could somehow double it's speed it still wouldn't be playable with any degree of fun.
Which has brought me back to DOSBox... I'd really like to sort out what the game itself means by "module not created"!!! The latest version of DOSBox DOES start the install, meaning it MUST understand "protected mode" games, but as soon as it gets to the place where the graphics would actually start, the game itself comes up with that error... if I could find out just what the game is looking for, and provide it, I'm sure it would run better than PocketDOS. How MUCH better, I can't say of course...
In my limited understanding, (VERY limited), I think it could be several possibilities of what DOSBox is looking for;
Specific sound card?
Memory (of some type) location, ie hard disk?
Looking for VGA compatibility?
Hmmm... limited indeed.
Sound card is easy to eliminate, I'll just check requirements for the game and switch to that, or turn off sound emulation entirely and try it...
Other than that I'm stuck. Unless n0p ever decides to port 0.72, which doesn't sound too likely so far.
Actually, just one more thing. In PocketDOS, under "help -> system information" it only lists my CPU as a 400 MHz, no matter how I hack my PDA's CPU. That could be why it's sooooo slow. Can't imagine it'll help much though to even sort that out - I'm using their plugin to make it a 486 already anyway.
I'll just have to wait patiently and keep coming back here for news.
Cool site guys, and thanks for all your help!
MadM@