Maybe a timing-sensitive issue. Not much to do to fix that, I'm afraid. Maybe CTBPPAT will fix it.

Might help to describe your hardware. It would also help to identify the game you are trying to run.

i using win xp
intel pentium 3 processor
800 mhz
128 ram

sound playback
default device : SB live! wave device

sound recording
default device : SB live! wave device

midi music playback
default device : SB live! MIDI UART

the game : an old chinese game
Xian Jian Qi Xia Zuan

really hope someone will help me

Snover wrote:

Maybe a timing-sensitive issue. Not much to do to fix that, I'm afraid. Maybe CTBPPAT will fix it.

Error 07 is Microsoft's error code for "Out of Memory". Go at it, boys.

Originally posted by Unregistered the game : an old chinese game
Xian Jian Qi Xia Zuan

*ack* Can hardly find any info about this "Xian Jian Qi Xia Zhuan". The only page with a lot of info was all in Chinese. Can you confirm that this is a DOS game, not a Windows game?

From the images on this page, it's either a Windows game or a SVGA DOS game. SVGA could complicate matters...

I don't suppose anyone could find a demo available for download? Size wouldn't matter...

it is a DOS game

u can download the game from http://greenarea.myetang.com/Pal/download.htm

click on th no.2

i really hope some1 can help me wif this problem

thanks 2 everybody who has already benn helping in one way or another....

thanks again

Originally posted by Unregistered it is a DOS game...

Confirmed. Might not be VESA after all...

u can download the game from ...

Hrmm...Looks like the "full" version, as opposed to a demo. Since I can't read any Chinese, I can't tell...

The install program bombed out with a runtime 200 error, fixed it with ctbppat.

I can't figure the INSTALL program at all. I don't suppose you could translate this for me?

I couldn't figure out the install/setup program, so I just ran VDMSound on PLAY.BAT and it ran fine. The intro screen was silent, but at the first "choice" screen the music (MIDI) started, and I can confirm that digital sound effects worked as well.

I did notice this message popping up when starting the game:
Check CD-ROM .... in J:
Free 49984 bytes
XMS= 919 k
FM ...... OK
Voice ... OK

You might try this: Start up a command prompt, make it full-screen (Alt+Enter), type DOSDRV to start VDMSound, then type this to start the game:
PAL.EXE >MEM.TXT

Quit as soon as possible and post your results from the MEM.TXT file. Please note, I do NOT have a CD-ROM drive on J: , so I'm not so sure about that part...

Also, try typing MEM /C and post what results you get from that.

Also, do you know what this sub-menu from the install program is saying? I'm guessing that 570k is the conventional memory requirement, that 830k is the XMS requirement; and 623k/31648k are what it "sees" available on my PC.

err, is that a text-mode SETUP program?

Then copy and paste the text over to a WordPad window (because Notepad doesn't support more than one language at a time, I think) and then paste into a Chinese-English translation program or online machine translation service like Babelfish or ArcNet (when it is online again, that is)

That should at least get you through until Unregistered posts again.

It simply can't be text mode. 😀
V.

Schadenfreude wrote:

err, is that a text-mode SETUP program?

Wonder if there's a Chinese equivilant of JWPce (like CWPce?) I don't think I could use JWPce to identify those characters since actually Japanese and Chinese characters have evolved a bit differently over the years.

Snover wrote:

Wonder if there's a Chinese equivilant of JWPce (like CWPce?) I don't think I could use JWPce to identify those characters since actually Japanese and Chinese characters have evolved a bit differently over the years.

Not that I know of.

For a Chinese word processor, see:
http://www.njstar.com
http://www.twinbridge.com
(both are shareware, have free demos)

I wonder what sort of output JWPce would give? It would be interesting if you would try.

We're still waiting for the Unregistered to reply...

If you were desperate enough, you could search for Chinese-English OCR software and run on the images. (Boy, think of all the opportunities for error there!!!)

Schadenfreude wrote:

If you were desperate enough, you could search for Chinese-English OCR software and run on the images. (Boy, think of all the opportunities for error there!!!)

Hmm, you'd probably have to convert to 300dpi 8-bit greyscale first, though. AND pray that the OCR software can recognize it.

Boy, that would be fun!

Actually it would have to be 1-bit, and the resolution doesn't matter.

this is what i get when i press mem/c

Upper Memory :

Name Size in Decimal Size in Hex
------------- --------------------- -------------
SYSTEM 196592 (192.0K) 2FFF0
DOSX 128 ( 0.1K) 80
MOUSE 12528 ( 12.2K) 30F0
MSCDEXNT 464 ( 0.5K) 1D0
REDIR 2672 ( 2.6K) A70
FREE 1024 ( 1.0K) 400
FREE 48608 ( 47.5K) BDE0

Total FREE : 49632 ( 48.5K)

Total bytes available to programs (Conventional+Upper) : 649648 (634.4K)
Largest executable program size : 598832 (584.8K)
Largest available upper memory block : 48608 ( 47.5K)

1048576 bytes total contiguous extended memory
0 bytes available contiguous extended memory
941056 bytes available XMS memory
MS-DOS resident in High Memory Area

tried reinstalling the game
but it still can't work
btw i can't get 2 the install screen u attached
after i unzip the game
i can jus play

Originally posted by Unregistered Largest executable program size : 598832 (584.8K)

Ok, that is significantly smaller than mine, but I'm still not sure if that is the cause of the problem.

btw i can't get 2 the install screen u attached

Like I said before:
The install program bombed out with a runtime 200 error, I fixed it with ctbppat.

You still haven't told us what message you receive at the start of the game: Start up a command prompt, make it full-screen (Alt+Enter), type DOSDRV to start VDMSound (the non-GUI part of it), then type this to start the game:
PAL.EXE >MEM.TXT

Quit as soon as possible and post your results from the MEM.TXT file.

hey everybody

i got the music running

thanks everybody who was helping
esp

01)Snover
02)Nicht Sehr Gut
03)Schadenfreude
04)vladr

this is the most helpful forum i have ever been
cheers

Originally posted by Unregistered i got the music running

What happened? While testing, I lost all audio, then got back digital audio (MIDI still missing). Bizarre.

01)Snover 02)Nicht Sehr Gut 03)Schadenfreude 04)vladr […]
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01)Snover
02)Nicht Sehr Gut
03)Schadenfreude
04)vladr

In 2-digit numerical order no less...apparently 96 other people didn't make the cut...*heh*

...this is the most helpful forum i have ever been
cheers

Well, thanks, but there is still plenty of "mystery" about this title. Stay in touch.