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First post, by emm

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Hi to you all !

I have a big problem with an old game by loriciel called "jim power" and this problem have occured with lots of other games.
I have launched the game both from windows 2000 sp4 and from plain dos using a win95 boot disk including himem.sys and emm386.exe on the config.sys
When the game start, it exits immediatly with the error message "divide by zero".

My computer is a packard bell :

gigabyte motherboard with inboard graphic chipset names i810 (takes gfx ram from main ram) and inboard yamaha sound (disabled in bios).

The CPU is a celeron I running at 400 MHz 😵
200 MB of SDRAM PC133 or PC100
PCI SB Live 5.1 sound card without dos drivers as creative never released them. Demos and games runs well with sound using VDMS. Under plain dos, there is no know way to get sound. Older SB driver simply don't work as before sound card where isa not PCI. If someone can help for this problem too, that could be really great.

So how to run jim power ?
Where do the "divide by zero" bug come from ?
Is there a way to get sound under plain dos for SB PCI card ?

Thanks you in advance for all your detailled answers.

Reply 1 of 1, by Qbix

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for the divide by zero bug take a look at this
Fix "Error 200" (Divide by zero) - by Snover and Stiletto (updated!)

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