First post, by velvetmilk
hey guys, i'm new on here and have done multiple searches to find what i'm looking for but i really have a limited clue as to how DOSbox work and even the dos32a extended application.
my problem's unique in that a group of friends and i created a DOS based game back in 1999 just because we wanted to build something from the ground up. unfortunately today i cannot view the hard work i put into it at the time because the smacktards over at microsoft got rid of a wonderful thing.
i managed to get the game working using dosbox but it ran at maybe 1 frame a second at BEST. i know my computer's not that new - a 900 MHZ with 800 MB RAM and a 128 NVIDIA card, but wasn't sure of these results were atypical. it's hard to believe games like battlefield 1942 run okay while some crappy pixel art game (but it's my creation!) cannot run at more than 1 fps.
i have been seeing posts about this dos32a and i dloaded and installed the files. i was looking at their help but didn't come up with anything. i placed the dos32a.exe file in my root folder with my executable for the game (mmm.exe) and went to command prompt and typed:
c:\mmm>dos32a.exe mmm.exe (which i saw on a post on this forum) and it gave me amessage which said "file mmm.exe does not contain any vaid exec format"
other than shooting back to windows 9x, is there anyway to get this game to opperate again?