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Set files=60?

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First post, by AFnord

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Hi

I'm currently trying to get an old game (Alien logic, if anyone is interested) to run, but I'm running into a bit of a problem, which seem to be more generally dosbox related. When the install starts, I get the following error:
FILES = 40 detected in your CONFIG.SYS
Requires FILES = 60.

So how exactly do I set FILES = 60 in dosbox (as there is no config.sys file to edit). The only help I've been able to find online is regards to FILES = 30, which apparently is solved by activating XMS & EMS in dosbox.conf (those are set to "true" for me)

Reply 1 of 5, by VileR

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try ykhwong's or h-a-l-9000's DOSBox builds, they include a patch to adjust "FILES =".

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Reply 2 of 5, by Qbix

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however you should know that dosbox has files=127 internally set by default

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Reply 4 of 5, by SKARDAVNELNATE

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Make a text document with FILES=60 in it. Remove the .txt extension and rename the file CONFIG.SYS. Place this in the path you mounted.

Reply 5 of 5, by AFnord

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Thanks for all of your replies. Unfortunately I have no way to check if your methods work, because somehow the problem fixed itself (and I made no changes to any config files, it just suddenly worked). If the problem reappears I'll try some of your methods.

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