Re: Trying to get Zug's Dinosaur Discovery Kit 2.0 for DOS working in actual DOS. Works in DOSBox just fine.

Posted on 2020-11-02, 04:44

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config.bat Echo off Echo - - - - if .%1==. goto NOARG IF %1==Y goto in1 IF %1==y goto in1 if exist JOYSTICK rename JOYSTICK NOJOYSTICK goto in2 :in1 if exist NOJOYSTICK rename NOJOYSTICK JOYSTICK :in2 goto abort :noarg Echo Type CONFIG Y if you have a joystick, Echo CONFIG N if you are not using one …

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Trying to get Zug's Dinosaur Discovery Kit 2.0 for DOS working in actual DOS. Works in DOSBox just fine.

Posted on 2020-11-02, 04:33

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I found a place to download a zip file of the game already installed. I've searched for this game for nearly 20 years and this is the only downloadable copy I've ever found. I've NEVER found a physical copy and it isn't for sale ANYWHERE. So just prefacing with that, yes, I found and downloaded this …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-10-29, 04:56

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clueless1 wrote on 2020-10-28, 23:21: tomexplodes wrote on 2020-10-28, 17:49: Currently, I'm playing Betrayal at Krondor on my newly EMS'd DOS machine. Such a great game. Nice. Me too. How far along are you? I'm still in chapter 1 but getting close to finishing it. Just took care of the Brak Nurr

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-10-28, 17:49

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jmarsh wrote on 2020-10-28, 16:12: Fire at Will? What did Will do to deserve that? My brother's name is Will, so "Fire at Will" and "through sheer force of Will" have always been jokes between us. Currently, I'm playing Betrayal at Krondor on my newly EMS'd DOS machine. Such a great game.

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Re: Betrayal at Krondor: Not enough memory

Posted on 2020-10-27, 22:08

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I actually sorted it out. I had to play around with memmaker manually for a bit, there was a bunch of crap it wasn't actually loading HIGH for no apparent reason. Now I have enough of both. Thanks for the help! EDIT: ALSO! Krondor was designed with MSDOS 5 in mind, might be why it's looking for an …

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Re: Betrayal at Krondor: Not enough memory

Posted on 2020-10-27, 21:38

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EDIT: Tried to make a boot disk, it complained it couldn't find dblspace. That doesn't make any sense; in 6.22 dblspace was replaced by drvspace. How exactly did you try to make the boot disk? Through the Betrayal at Krondor installer. EDIT According to this, http://www.sierrahelp.com/Documents/ …

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Betrayal at Krondor: Not enough memory

Posted on 2020-10-27, 21:12

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Running MS-DOS 6.22 on a Pentium-S 120mhz with 32mb RAM, off a 2gb compact flash card. Vibra 16 SB16 compatible card installed, yadda yadda. Here are pictures of my autoexec.bat, config.sys and mem report. Not sure what the problem is, would love help. Thanks! EDIT: Tried to make a boot disk, it …

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Re: So I bought a CPU for my 98 machine without realizing that my mobo only supports up to 1.3ghz

Posted on 2020-10-27, 01:17

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I would recommend an Abit motherboard because they come with the 4 pin power connector and you can use the PSU that you already have - specifically Abit KV7 with VIA KT600 chipset. It supports all socket 462 CPUs and every 1.5V AGP video card ever made up to geforce 7800gs! It also fully supports …

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Re: So I bought a CPU for my 98 machine without realizing that my mobo only supports up to 1.3ghz

Posted on 2020-10-26, 01:46

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by tomexplodes

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debs3759 wrote on 2020-10-25, 22:51: Both those boards support the Athlon XP, so both are suitable for your CPU. Not sure that they will be suitable for the later XP CPUs though as they are an early chipset. Okay, thank you!

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Re: So I bought a CPU for my 98 machine without realizing that my mobo only supports up to 1.3ghz

Posted on 2020-10-25, 22:26

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Sadly, I can't find an Asus A7V600-X motherboard for less than 80-100 dollars, and that's a lot more than I want to put into this particular build, especially since I may also need a new power supply. Not sure if the RAM I have is compatible either, I'd have to check. EDIT: Would either of these be …

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Re: So I bought a CPU for my 98 machine without realizing that my mobo only supports up to 1.3ghz

Posted on 2020-10-25, 18:15

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I will parse all this information in my head for a bit. Thank you very much for all your help, it is very much appreciated. I'm obviously still learning about old hardware all the time, but that's half the fun! Thanks again.

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Re: So I bought a CPU for my 98 machine without realizing that my mobo only supports up to 1.3ghz

Posted on 2020-10-25, 17:25

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Well, since I just want to go with mostly what I already have, is there another motherboard option that would work? EDIT: I do also have a couple 200w PSUs hanging about. I'll check out the specs on them and get back to you here (at some point.) EDIT AGAIN: Alternatively, a PSU recommendation …

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Re: So I bought a CPU for my 98 machine without realizing that my mobo only supports up to 1.3ghz

Posted on 2020-10-25, 05:36

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That all sounds lovely. If I can find one for a reasonable price, I'll probably grab one. Assuming my 750w power supply has the necessary rails.

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Re: Trouble getting Alter Ego (male) to run on my DOS machine.

Posted on 2020-10-25, 04:57

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I figured out how to get around it. I copied over zip files and pkunzip and unzipped them into the folders I wanted. It didn't mess up the filenames. I'm all set. Thanks!

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Re: Trouble getting Alter Ego (male) to run on my DOS machine.

Posted on 2020-10-25, 04:37

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I guess the real question is, what is DOS's problem with dashes?

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Re: So I bought a CPU for my 98 machine without realizing that my mobo only supports up to 1.3ghz

Posted on 2020-10-25, 04:36

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So in the event that I may need DOS sound for something at some point, what's a better choice?

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Re: Is there a way to make MS-DOS 6.22 prefer .bat to .exe?

Posted on 2020-10-24, 18:18

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Okay, good to know. Like I say, not difficult to work around, just wanted to know. Thanks for the info! I'll take a look at 4DOS.

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Is there a way to make MS-DOS 6.22 prefer .bat to .exe?

Posted on 2020-10-24, 17:55

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Just as an example, I made a doom.bat file so I could install and uninstall novert.com before and after running doom.exe, but simply typing doom runs the executable, not the batch file. This is no big deal, I renamed doom.exe to doom1.exe and did it that way, so it's not something that's necessary, …

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Re: So I bought a CPU for my 98 machine without realizing that my mobo only supports up to 1.3ghz

Posted on 2020-10-24, 17:38

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Sorry about my lack of information. This is an already built Windows 98SE machine (plus unofficial SP) with a 1.3ghz Athlon, 768mb ram, a Geforce 4 440 MX 64mb AGP card. I wanted to upgrade the processor to the new one but my board doesn't support it. Don't need ISA, have a Sound Blaster Live! value …

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Trouble getting Alter Ego (male) to run on my DOS machine.

Posted on 2020-10-24, 03:12

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by tomexplodes

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And I've determined what the issue is. There are files with names such as ce-1-1.sie, up through 11 or 12 sometimes, but somehow DOS is reading them as ce_1_1~1.sie etc. even though they aren't more than 8 characters. How do I get them to copy over or be read as they are and not incorrectly? I don't …

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