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First post, by comteck123

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Hi, I would like to ask if there is a way to have save states in DOSBox? because I would like to play an old game which unfortunately doesn't have saves.

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Reply 1 of 13, by DosFreak

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Not with the official build of dosbox. Try yhkwong's builds which includes the save state patch.

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Reply 2 of 13, by comteck123

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It does work but limited to 200mb Ram and gets erased when it's full. No HD stored snapshots though.

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Reply 3 of 13, by kolano

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comteck123 wrote:

It does work but limited to 200mb Ram and gets erased when it's full. No HD stored snapshots though.

What the heck is using 200MB or more of RAM in DOS? There should be few things that can even see more than 64MB. Refer:

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Reply 5 of 13, by comteck123

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kolano wrote:
What the heck is using 200MB or more of RAM in DOS? There should be few things that can even see more than 64MB. Refer: […]
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comteck123 wrote:

It does work but limited to 200mb Ram and gets erased when it's full. No HD stored snapshots though.

What the heck is using 200MB or more of RAM in DOS? There should be few things that can even see more than 64MB. Refer:

I was talking about the 200MB ram limitation of yhkwong's Save State. In other words if you allocated more than 200MB of ram in DOSBox, Save State will not work.

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Reply 6 of 13, by comteck123

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comteck123 wrote:
kolano wrote:
What the heck is using 200MB or more of RAM in DOS? There should be few things that can even see more than 64MB. Refer: […]
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comteck123 wrote:

It does work but limited to 200mb Ram and gets erased when it's full. No HD stored snapshots though.

What the heck is using 200MB or more of RAM in DOS? There should be few things that can even see more than 64MB. Refer:

I was talking about the 200MB ram limitation of yhkwong's Save State. In other words if you allocated more than 200MB of ram in DOSBox, Save State will not work.

Nope the reason I want save states because I was playing the Blood Alpha. Which Doesn't have saves ingame.

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Reply 7 of 13, by Dominus

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Why need mire than 64MB?

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Reply 10 of 13, by collector

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I forget the memory limit of DOS, but wasn't Win9x only 128MB? Why add more than can possibly be used?

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Reply 11 of 13, by comteck123

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collector wrote:

I forget the memory limit of DOS, but wasn't Win9x only 128MB? Why add more than can possibly be used?

Win9x can use more than 1GB of ram I think. Well, Maybe except for ME.

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Reply 12 of 13, by kolano

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comteck123 wrote:

Save states plus the SVN I use can only handle 200mb for SS.

Right, because there is no reason for it to support that much. As discussed above DOS can generally only see a max of ~64MB of RAM so setting it to >200MB is completely pointless. Blood Alpha is a DOS game, so just set your RAM setting down to 64MB and stop worrying about this.

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Reply 13 of 13, by Dominus

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Exactly. You want to play a dos game and use the save state thing, don't set it to more than 64MB. Setting it to even less is probably even more sensible.

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