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First post, by Cruachan

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Hi,

I've managed successfully to run QuickBasic (v. 2.01) in DOSbox. My intention is to make some modifications to an accounts program I wrote in QBasic many years ago.

The program's QBasic code (>65k) loads into DOSbox and I am able to examine and change the code. However, when the compiler completes I see a message stating that it has run out of memory.

Any way to fix this, please?

As yet I have not tried making any additions to dosbox.conf

Mike

Reply 1 of 4, by MiniMax

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DOSBox defaults to emulating 16 MB of memory, which should be enough for almost anything. You can increase it by editing the dosbox.conf. Try 32 (max=63). Use the MEM command check the result.

You can also try running the LOADFIX command before starting QBASIC.

Last edited by MiniMax on 2008-08-18, 22:12. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 2 of 4, by Cruachan

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Hi MiniMax,

Thanks for the speedy response 😀

In fact I had forgotten that yesterday I had already tried increasing the memsize value from 16 to 32. Sorry about that. It didn't work, however.

Happy days! The LOADFIX command does resolve the problem and I have been able to change the memsize value back to 16.

Many thanks!

Can I ask another quick question, please?
Is it possible to increase the size of the DOSbox window?

Regards,

Mike

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Reply 3 of 4, by MiniMax

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> Is it possible to increase the size of the DOSbox window?

Yes. It is all explained in the aptly named ReadMe-file mentioned in my signature.

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