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First post, by DOSMan007

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Okay so this game titled Zone 66, used to work in Dosbox, maybe on the 0.73 version, but now, it's not working at all on 0.74-2. When I try to run the game, I first got an error message telling me "This program can not run with an XMS driver!!! Please remedy this condition, or run HELPME for help.

So I go into the Dosbox options, set XMS=false, save, exit, and I try to run the game again. I get another message "You must have at least 512k of extended memory to run this program!!!"

Now EMS=true, UMB=true. MEM says this:

632 Kb free conventional memory
63296 Kb free expanded memory

So, I know DOS. I used to do this waaaaay back in the day with DOS 6.0 and then with DOS 6.22. I was constantly editing my config.sys and autoexec.bat to try and load anything and everything I could into the upper memory blocks, just to get games to run. I even went and bought the Qemm program that came out on 3.5" disks, just to try and get more memory for games working. So I know these memory messages and what I need.

Problem is, I have more than enough memory for this game, and it's not even working. Since this is Dosbox, I know it's not the old, original DOS 6.22, so I'm guessing there is something else I'm missing but I don't know what it is. Any help is appreciated, thanks. I'll try running it in Dosbox SVN Daum and see if that does anything.

EDIT: I get the same error message in SVN Daum as well.

Reply 2 of 2, by DOSMan007

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ripsaw8080 wrote:

You need to set ems=false as well.

BTW, you can often find game-specific info like this in the compatibility list at DOSBox.com

This worked. Thank you and Merry Christmas! And I will check out that compatibility list. Didn't know there was one, so thanks again 😀