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Zone 66 Shareware works, Registered doesn't

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First post, by Tachikoma

Posted on 2004-02-25, 04:44

Tachikoma Offline

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Hello all

Here we go

Motherboard: Gigabyt 8IEX (i845)
Processor type and speed: Pentium 4 2.66Ghz 533Mhz buss
Amount and type of RAM: 512MB Corsair XMS2400 DDR
Video board w/ RAM amount and type: ATI Radeo 9800 Pro 128MB DDR RAM
Sound board: M-Audio Revolution 7.1
Operating system: Windows XP Home
Game name (and version, if applicable): Zone 66 Registered

Description of problem: Zone 66 Shareware runs fine in Dos box 0.61, occasionaly crashes, but is other wise fantastic. The registered version (all 8 missions) dumps on execution with the followin message
"This program cannot run with an XMS driver!!!

Please remedy this condition, or run HELPME for help."

xms and ems are set to false in dosbox.conf

Reproducibility of problem: Always
Sound mode used: tried adlib/soundblaster/GUS (zone66 /a and /s and /u)
Video mode: OpenGL and Software and overlay tried
Version of emulator: Dosbox 0.61
Steps already attempted to solve the problem: Tried swapping the exe files about as a desperate attempt to make it work. No go still. Tried reinstalling dosbox, changing cycles, changing xms and ems settings.

dosbox.conf is as follows

1[sdl]
2# fullscreen -- Start dosbox directly in fullscreen.
3# fulldouble -- Use double buffering in fullscreen.
4# fullfixed -- Don't resize the screen when in fullscreen.
5# fullwidth/height -- What resolution to use for fullscreen, use together with fullfixed.
6# output -- What to use for output: surface,overlay,opengl,openglnb.
7# hwscale -- Extra scaling of window if the output device supports hardware scaling.
8# autolock -- Mouse will automatically lock, if you click on the screen.
9# sensitiviy -- Mouse sensitivity.
10# waitonerror -- Wait before closing the console if dosbox has an error.
11
12fullscreen=false
13fulldouble=false
14fullfixed=false
15fullwidth=0
16fullheight=0
17output=opengl
18hwscale=1.00
19autolock=true
20sensitivity=100
21waitonerror=true
22
23[dosbox]
24# language -- Select another language file.
25# memsize -- Amount of memory dosbox has in megabytes.
26# machine -- The type of machine tries to emulate:auto,hercules,cga,tandy,vga.
27#            Try a specific type if your game has problems with auto.
28
29language=
30machine=auto
31memsize=16
32
33[render]
34# frameskip -- How many frames dosbox skips before drawing one.
35# snapdir -- Directory where screenshots get saved.
36# aspect -- Do aspect correction.
37# scaler -- Scaler used to enlarge/enhance low resolution modes.
38#           Supported are none,normal2x,advmame2x
39
40frameskip=0
41snapdir=snaps
42aspect=false
43scaler=normal2x
44
45[cpu]
46# core -- CPU Core used in emulation: normal,full,dynamic.
47# cycles -- Amount of instructions dosbox tries to emulate each millisecond.
48#           Setting this higher than your machine can handle is bad!
49# cycleup   -- Amount of cycles to increase/decrease with keycombo.
50# cycledown    Setting it lower than 100 will be a percentage.
51
52core=normal
53cycles=2500
54cycleup=500
55cycledown=20
56
57[mixer]
58# nosound -- Enable silent mode, sound is still emulated though.
59# rate -- Mixer sample rate, setting any devices higher than this will
60#         probably lower their sound quality.

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61# blocksize -- Mixer block size, larger blocks might help sound stuttering
62#              but sound will also be more lagged.
63# wavedir -- Directory where saved sound output goes when you use the
64#            sound record key-combination, check README file.
65
66nosound=false
67rate=22050
68blocksize=2048
69wavedir=waves
70
71[midi]
72# mpu401 -- Enable MPU-401 Emulation.
73# device -- Device that will receive the MIDI data from MPU-401.
74#           This can be default,alsa,oss,win32,coreaudio,none.
75# config -- Special configuration options for the device.
76
77mpu401=true
78device=default
79config=
80
81[sblaster]
82# sblaster -- Enable the soundblaster emulation.
83# base,irq,dma -- The IO/IRQ/DMA address of the soundblaster.
84# sbrate -- Sample rate of soundblaster emulation.
85# adlib -- Enable the adlib emulation.
86# adlibrate -- Sample rate of adlib emulation.
87# cms -- Enable the Creative Music System/Gameblaster emulation.
88#        Enabling both the adlib and cms might give conflicts!
89# cmsrate -- Sample rate of cms emulation.
90
91sblaster=true
92base=220
93irq=7
94dma=1
95sbrate=22050
96adlib=true
97adlibrate=22050
98adlibmode=adlib
99cms=false
100cmsrate=22050
101
102[gus]
103# gus -- Enable the Gravis Ultrasound emulation.
104# base,irq1,irq2,dma1,dma2 -- The IO/IRQ/DMA addresses of the 
105#            Gravis Ultrasound. (Same IRQ's and DMA's are OK.)
106# rate -- Sample rate of Ultrasound emulation.
107# ultradir -- Path to Ultrasound directory.  In this directory
108#             there should be a MIDI directory that contains
109#             the patch files for GUS playback.  Patch sets used
110#             with Timidity should work fine.
111
112gus=true
113rate=22050
114base=240
115irq1=5
116irq2=5
117dma1=3
118dma2=3
119ultradir=C:\ULTRASND
120
121[speaker]
122# pcspeaker -- Enable PC-Speaker emulation.
123# pcrate -- Sample rate of the PC-Speaker sound generation.
124# tandy -- Enable Tandy 3-Voice emulation.
125# tandyrate -- Sample rate of the Tandy 3-Voice generation.
126# disney -- Enable Disney Sound Source emulation.
127
128pcspeaker=true
129pcrate=22050
130tandy=true
131tandyrate=22050
132disney=true
133
134[bios]
135# Nothing to setup yet!
136
137
138[dos]
139# xms -- Enable XMS support.
140# ems -- Enable EMS support.
141
142xms=false
143ems=false
144
145[modem]
146# modem -- Enable virtual modem emulation.
147# comport -- COM Port modem is connected to.
148# listenport -- TCP Port the momdem listens on for incoming connections.
149
150modem=true
151comport=2
152listenport=23
153
154[autoexec]
155# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
156

It's great to be able to play the shareware, but the registered is so much better. Any ideas?

Cheers

Reply 1 of 1, by robertmo

Posted on 2004-04-01, 16:11

robertmo Offline

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it's strange cause i have pasted your config to my dosbox 0.61 and the game works properly

i only get your error message when xms=true

but with false it works perfectly, and i have 8 missions to choose from so i guess my wersion of game is not a shareware

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