What kind of DOS memory sorcery do I need to get Theme Park working? Does it need EMS or XMS, and how much conventional memory? With 594K conventional memory and regardless of EMS or XMS it won't launch, and just gives me the "Program too big to fit in memory" error.
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How much memory do you have installed in total? There are a few games that fail with exactly that message if you have *too much* memory.
It uses XMS, not EMS. It conflicts with EMM386. Wants more than 8 megs with high quality sound.
32MB of RAM installend and wont run with EMS or XMS.. smh..
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The executable could just be corrupt.
wrote:32MB of RAM installend and wont run with EMS or XMS.. smh..
Try with 16 mb.
If reducing RAM doesn't work (I'm not sure it will, however-- it's not like a disk space check in which there is so much free space and only so many digits are checked (such that 619,000,008,105 bytes free looks smaller than 19,008,105 bytes free*)), then it could be a corrupted binary, maybe even just the header of the .com/.exe.
*A similar example would be that having 96MB of RAM installed might look to some programs like having less than 8MB of RAM-- but HIMEM.SYS for DOS 6.22 is limited to 64MB.
What OS version are you running this in? If it's a Win9x system, are you restarting into MS-DOS mode or just trying to run it in a DOS window in Windows?
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It's MS-DOS 6.22, with 32MB memory only. I tried with or without EMS. I will try to reinstall the game later..
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wrote:It's MS-DOS 6.22
Ok. That clarifies it wasn't a Win9x DOS window.
with 32MB memory only.
Yes, you'd said that before:
wrote:32MB of RAM installend
