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A4 Networks - Not enough EMS memory

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First post, by Bartosz

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That's right, I've try load A4 Networks (it's four part of a-train game) in Dosbox and I got that message MEMORY 01 - NOT ENOUGH EMS MEMORY

Can somebody help me with this problem ?

Reply 1 of 41, by Qbix

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I take it that you tried to increase the amount of memory by editing the configuration file of dosbox ?

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Reply 2 of 41, by MiniMax

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Bartosz - please execute the following commands in DOSBox, and report the results here.

Z:\>ver
Z:\>memsize
Z:\>ems
Z:\>xms
Z:\>mem

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Reply 3 of 41, by Bartosz

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No, I do nothing with incease of memory.

Ok, so:

ver:
DosBox version 0.72. Reported DOS version 5.0.

memsize:
16

ems:
true

xms:
true

mem:
634 kb free conventional memory
63 kb uper memory in 1 blocks (largest UMB 63 kb)
15280 kb free extended memory
15280 kb free expanded memory

Reply 4 of 41, by MiniMax

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Okay - now try to do as Qbix suggested. Edit the file dosbox.conf and change memsize=16 to memsize=64.

Start DOSBox and verify (with the memsize and mem commands) that your changes are active. Then start your program.

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Reply 5 of 41, by eL_PuSHeR

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I would try memsize=32 first.

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Reply 6 of 41, by Bartosz

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I've changed to 64, thetn to 32 and there is still the same problem witm ems memory 🙁

Any other ideas?

Reply 7 of 41, by MiniMax

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Try the command 'loadfix' before you run the program.

If that doesn't help, try the command 'ems false' before you run the program.

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Reply 8 of 41, by Bartosz

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Still the same problem 🙁

Reply 9 of 41, by wd

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Post your system specs, dosbox version etc.

Reply 10 of 41, by Bartosz

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Winsows XP SP2
AMD Athlon XP 2600+
1.91Ghz, 768 MB Ram
GForce 5200 FX 64 MB

Can I ask you something? Here are the site I've dosnloaded A4 Can you download and check this game on yours computers please? 😉 It's only 4MB.

Cheers

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Reply 11 of 41, by wd

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Works just fine.

Reply 12 of 41, by Bartosz

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Don't you know how can I increase EMS memory on my computer?

Reply 13 of 41, by wd

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Maybe buy an ems expansion card.

Reply 14 of 41, by Bartosz

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No, I won't do that. Waste of money 😉

Probably I'll gave up. I love this and I would like to play it a lot but this problem hasn't got a solution 🙁

Reply 15 of 41, by wd

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It has a solution, that is dosbox. Dunno what's messed up on your installation,
works out of the box.

Reply 16 of 41, by MiniMax

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Bartosz - uninstall DOSBox, reboot, install DOSBox, try again.

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Reply 17 of 41, by Bartosz

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I'm out of my mind - still the same problem even when I'm trying open A4 without Dosbox. I was trying open A4 in my dad's comp but there is still the same problem with EMS.

Reply 18 of 41, by MiniMax

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Is this the first and only program you have tried with DOSBox?

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Reply 19 of 41, by Bartosz

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No, earlier I played A-train and Simcity with it and there wasn't any problems. But I see thay A4 can be loaded without Dosbox because the same problem is when I start it normally in Windows