Trying to get Electranoid (from Pixel Painters) to run under XP SP2 via VDM, but it keeps CTDing with the message: Loading "VDDLoader.dll"... Runtime Error 200 at 0FE8:0091 What's the solution?

Trying to get PT Boat (an ancient game from Alliance Interactive) to work under VDMSound but keep getting a message window: VDMS Launchpad - P The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction. CS:0000 IP:0077 OP:fo 3705 17 02 Chose "close" to terminate the application. What's wrong? and how do I …

eL_PuSHeR wrote: Here is the patch. It allows both UW1 and UW2 to run under Windows XP. ... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [/quote] Thanks, I'll give this a shot. Just out of curiosity, what does the hex edit do?

Sorry, but we really didn't know what you were getting at in your initial post. Was it a question? Was it a statement? Were you just lazy and unable to form a proper question? I'm thinking the latter. I'm tired of decoding people's posts on forums because they are too lazy to form a proper question …

Sorry not to get right back to you after your response. Down with the flu for a few days... If you are interested, I may have a WinXP NTVDM solution in the very near future. You could Beta test the patch for me... Let me know, dvwjr No problem. A few weeks back I had, of all things, the mumps (... …

Where might I find patches for such an old game? depends, just think about what you are trying to do. You want to find a patch for running Ultima Underworld on Windows. This gives you four excellent words to search for in your favourite search engine. Just the first hit on google is giving you more …

It's advisable to patch both Ultima Underworld 1 and 2 prior to playing them on XP. Other than that, they work both using VDMSound and DOSBox. Where might I find patches for such an old game? I may already have the patched version, I got both UW1 and UW2 on one CD, ca '95 or '96. Have never had any …

DosFreak wrote: That's nice. Excellent suggestion.

I have been totally unable to get Ultima Underworld 2 to run on any system since my old P166/W95 in '97. Everything since then gets me a CTD somewhere during the character selection stage. Current system is Athlon 2.4+, 512meg, GeForce4 Ti4200, Audigy 2, nforce2.

Silent Hunter has been running flawlessly for over a year now; I was surprised, given XPs usual ineptitude with anything predating it. 'AUTOEXEC.BAT': LH C:\UTILS\NoLFB.com LH C:\UTILS\MouseCTL.com 40,48,80,120,176,240,400,560 LH C:\UTILS\Speedset.exe +1 'Program': E:\SILENT\SH.EXE 'Arguements': …

Are there any docs for this? My download contained none at all so I'm just tapping in the dark trying different settings on my programs.

I followed the, somewhat convoluted, instructions I found on the net to get Silent Hunter working under XP and have it running quite well now except for one problem - the cursor is excruciatingly slow, it takes about three sweeps of the mouse across the pad to get it from one side of the screen to …

I have SWOTL running on my Athlon2.4+, XPSP2, using RobyDosBox 0.63 but have a couple of questions: Can I get it to run full screen? (or even anything larger than this little postcard window it now uses?) Can I get the SWManager to function again? This was/is a TSR, activated by ALT+F4, which …