First post, by athlon_p0wer
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I have configured my 486 with Windows 95, but with a boot screen that lets me choose between Windows 95 booting normally with no changes at all and booting into MS-DOS mode, which I've configured with HIMEM.SYS and EMM386. I have DOS running in the UMB.
In DOS, It loads everything and detects the sound card, but when the screen fades to black just before the program actually launches, the system crashes. I looked it up, and on their website it states to run AT2 through Windows if it crashes in DOS mode. I tried that, and it gives an insufficient memory error, which I've never seen it do on standard Windows 95.
I know the recommended requirements for this program state a Pentium, but I've ran this just fine under standard Windows 3.x/MS-DOS 6.22, so I don't see any reason why it shouldn't run under DOS, or at least Windows 95.
System specs:
OPTI 82C802 Chipset
486 DX2-66
128KB L2 15ns
16MB RAM 60ns (I'm pretty sure it's running at 70ns because I don't think this chipset can do 60ns, but that doesn't really matter here)
Cirrus Logic CL-5430
Soundblaster Vibra 16s
1.2GB Seagate Medalist HDD
HP DVD Writer 200i (I know this makes no sense, but I have no other working and unused IDE CD-ROM drives and it works well for that purpose)
[AUTOEXEC.BAT]
@ECHO OFF
GOTO %CONFIG%
:DOS
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D3 P330 T4
C:\MOUSE.EXE (ctmouse v2.0)
GOTO END
:WIN
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D3 P330 T4
C:\WINDOWS\WIN.COM
GOTO END
:END
[CONFIG.SYS]
[MENU]
MENUITEM=WIN
MENUITEM=DOS
[DOS]
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM AUTO I=B000-B7FF
DOS=UMB
[WIN]
Additionally, I tried running DOS with just HIMEM.SYS and in the high memory area, and it crashed at the same place with those settings as well. It's strange that it gives an insufficient memory error in Win95 considering that I have twice the RAM that it recommends and it launches DOOM and similar games under Windows just fine. I think it has something to do with how Windows is managing its memory though, so I'm really trying to get this to work under DOS. Any thoughts or ideas are greatly appreciated, I'm at a loss.
A miscellaneous problem I've been having that may or may not be related is that if I just boot up the computer into DOS mode and start Wolfenstein 3D, the gun and various other digitized sounds do not play, but the menu sounds do. When I launch any other DOS game before Wolfenstein, the sounds work. I'm not sure how to fix this, either.