Are you running more than 16mb of memory on this system? I know that Aladdin for DOS in particular does not run on a system with over 16mb of ram.

Ohhh really? Yeah this PC has 512mb of ram.

I thought this game could get running if you configure the EMS right. I guess i could use MSconfig to cap the ram at 16mb.

Some say that 32mb is the limit but for me 16mb was what I had to have my system configured with for it to work.

Dos games and 16mb of ram

Along with other games, It's mentioned in this link by someone that Aladdin has trouble running on systems with over 32mb.

Even after limiting the ram to 32mb, or 16mb its still gives an EMS error. So i think the issue is getting Windows 98 to properly use EMS memory.

I see ...but if you do get ems working with win98 you may still have a problem running Aladdin if you keep more than 16 or 32mb. I wish I had a solution for the EMS problem itself though 😕

Ah yeah true. Ill be sure to report back if i ever get EMS working properly on this machine and see if Aladdin will run with more than 32mb.

i have an asus nforce 2 board where ems do not work, too.

you can try to force a adress for the page-frame.

Have a look at the emm386 Parameters

Okay, good idea will do.

Aladdin throws two different errors, about XMS and about EMS. XMS error is thrown usually when there is too much memory. EMS error is thrown usually when there is not enough EMS (typically because EMS manager has not been installed).

Right, its been so long, i couldnt even try to remember whats a good EMS manager. Was QEMM good?

Perhaps post what your Config.sys looks like.
You can use EMM386.EXE as an expanded memory manager (least compatibility issues).
It should look something like this: DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM D=64 MIN=0
Just to be on the safe side, you can also add the following before the above command: DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF

Yeah that looks good, ill try that instead of whatever the hell else. I tried so many things with Config.sys but nothing worked, thanks.

So i tested it, i still get a EMM386 not installed error.

Copy and paste the contents of your Autoexec.bat & Config.sys files here.
Might be something trivial causing the problem.

My Autoexec.bat is empty and Config.sys is just

DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM D=64 MIN=0

If it is about XMS allocation error, I don't know if it will work under Windows 9x but under DOS in order to run Aladdin with >32MB RAM you need to use eatxms before running game.

What version of Windows are you running? Windows 95, Windows 98 or 98SE?
If the latter, try installing the unofficial Windows 98SE service pack 2.1a.
If you're running Windows 95 with more than 480 MB RAM, then you are going to have problems.
Try reducing the amount of memory that your have installed in the PC.

Yeah its Win98se with 512mb ram. Ive used msconfig to cap it at 32 or 16mb ram nothing different and i actually used the unofficial pack, but i only did the updates. Ill check that out again.

The error you're receiving is because EMM386 was unable to find 64K of contiguous space needed for the expanded memory page frame.
Refer the following link: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/75592

You can try to load EMM386.exe with the NOEMS switch (if you don't actually require expanded memory) - you then replace it with the RAM switch.
Or, specify the space frame address to EMM386.exe. For example:

DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM M9 D=64 MIN=0

where M9 = page frame address E000.

Do you have any network cards installed in the PC? If so, remove the card and see what happens.
As a last resort, check your BIOS settings. You can try disabling BIOS & video shadowing.