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Re: MOO2 / Ascendancy

Posted on 2002-10-07, 06:32

in DOS
Strange. I remember on a previous install of Win2K I had the compatibility options without doing anything special, and now I don't have them. Registering that DLL did the trick, though. Very curious. Anyway... I've played MOO2 on Win2K. It's one of my favorite games, though I think I've played it to …

Re: Cannot enable EMS under Win2K...

Posted on 2002-10-05, 06:35

Sorry. I've been off frolicking. Okay, maybe not. Basically, since no one had come up with any new ideas for a while, I let the problem go for a time. And now Stiletto is gone, but I'll answer him, anyway. I could contact Abit, but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't tell me anything useful. I've looked …

Re: MOO2 / Ascendancy

Posted on 2002-09-30, 06:01

in DOS
Ya know, MOO2 also runs in Windows. There were two copies of the exe with the game. The one named Orion95.exe will run using DirectX under Windows, so... There's no reason to use the DOS version.

Re: Cannot enable EMS under Win2K...

Posted on 2002-09-05, 04:09

Stiletto wrote: See? See? http://www.noticias3d.com/articulos/200207/it7/6.asp Yup, that'd be my BIOS, for sure. I'm pretty certain the caching options are for caching those BIOSes into the L2 cache. At least, that's what the manual said, I think. And they didn't help when I turned them off a week …

Re: Cannot enable EMS under Win2K...

Posted on 2002-09-05, 04:06

Except that Unisys is evil so you should never use GIF files. (I may be hypocritical with this site, but vBulletin dislikes PNG files, so I'm kinda stuck with it for now. :/) I love how they charge a licensing fee to include GIF encoding support in software. But I suppose it's one evil against …

Re: Cannot enable EMS under Win2K...

Posted on 2002-09-03, 05:22

Snover wrote: Oh, and if you don't want this to be in VDMSound, sobeit! Mwaha! I don't mind it being in the VDMS forum. It's gotten plenty of attention from knowledgable people there. But hey, wherever you want it, oh mighty admin. 😜

Re: Cannot enable EMS under Win2K...

Posted on 2002-09-03, 05:19

I like PNG and GIF. Nothing like lossless, high-ratio compression. Under 4K, baby! :D WPCREDIT does work in Win2K. I used it once before to tweak some settings to get my Vortex 2 stable in Win2K. It's a program to edit the PCI registers, if I recall correctly. I'm not sure what registers would have …

Re: Cannot enable EMS under Win2K...

Posted on 2002-08-29, 04:01

Ah... I haven't made a custom BIOS logo in a few years. Lost the files to do it, but now I've got them again. Thanks for the hookup on that website, Stiletto! So, I've got my custom EPA logo, I've updated the built in RAID BIOS, removed the boot ROM for my integrated NIC that was also part of my …

Re: Cannot enable EMS under Win2K...

Posted on 2002-08-28, 00:07

Thanks, Stiletto! I'll give these things a look. Don't worry, Snover, I'm prepared. I've rendered computers unbootable at least three times in the past and had to pull and replace my BIOS chip. It was annoying. I now own two different version of the RD-1 BIOS Saviour, though. One for old style 2MBit …

Problem with joystick module...

Posted on 2002-08-26, 20:33

Every time I start VDMS with Joystick support, either through Launchpad or at a command prompt, I get this error. I've got update 1 and Launchpad 1.07, of course. Isn't there a new joystick DLL or something? I remember downloading one once, but I don't have it anymore.

Re: Cannot enable EMS under Win2K...

Posted on 2002-08-26, 20:27

Ah. VESA. Yeah, now it's a full screen report. Thanks. I have QEMM9 lying around, but I don't think it has a program with it that allows me to peruse the memory. What was it called, do you remember? And I have an idea... If you disable EMS and run MSD, does that area between EB00 and EFFF show as " …

Re: Cannot enable EMS under Win2K...

Posted on 2002-08-25, 21:07

Unfortunately, I've already tried that, Snover. Not only am I not allowed to uncheck the "Use automatic settings" button in order to manually configure it, the resources don't even show the adapter as using and memory locations. Just a lot of I/O addresses and an IRQ. Here's what my first meg looks …

Re: Cannot enable EMS under Win2K...

Posted on 2002-08-25, 18:14

I have SP3 now, but it was the same under SP2. I've been using MS Diagnostics 3.01 to see all my memory info. I suppose its results may be qestionable under Windows as well, but it seems alright. I have to wonder if there are some unknown registry settings involving the NTVDM and EMS. Hmm...

Re: Cannot enable EMS under Win2K...

Posted on 2002-08-25, 01:52

I was messing with B=... on my wife's computer, too, and nothing I did would move the page frame from it's C800 location. I also noticed something else. If you put the line "echoconfig" in your config.nt and then run mem or whatever from the command prompt, it'll tell you the EMM line in config.nt …

Re: Cannot enable EMS under Win2K...

Posted on 2002-08-25, 00:06

Well, there's good news and there's not so good news. Disabling DOS support for my USB keyboard has freed up the D000 to D7FF area. That's 32K more UMBs, if I'm not mistaken. It shifted the RAID's ROM down, too, and it now occupies D000 to D3BF. That leaves all of D3C0 to EFFF free, which would be …

Re: Cannot enable EMS under Win2K...

Posted on 2002-08-24, 22:25

Well, after searching my BIOS and playing with a DOS boot disk all day, I've found some things out. 1) My BIOS doesn't have an option for shadowing, so I can't turn it off. My old motherboard had it, so I know what it looks like. Must be part of Abit trying to leave behind legacy stuff. 2) The …

Re: Cannot enable EMS under Win2K...

Posted on 2002-08-24, 01:04

Good idea, Vlad. I've removed UMB support in config.nt and I now get this: A000-CEFFh 192,512 Sys 0008h < DOS > CF01-CFFEh 4,064 Free 0000h < none > D000-DBFFh 49,152 Sys 0008h < DOS > DC01-DFFFh 16,368 Free 0000h < none > Still no room for a page frame, as you can see. I tried setting DOS=LOW or …

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