Woooot!! You are right about the Ignore the com1 error!! All I had to do after that was Maximize and Restore the dos window, and it came right up !
My questions now are:
1) Slow Mouse response in 640x480 mode. I tried raising the windows speed, with little effect. Any dos utility that might help? In WinXP now.
2) Stuttering soundeffects. I've heard that tweaking pci latency settings can help here, anyone tried this? I'm using the nforce2 sound on my motherboard now, though I also have a SantaCruz installed. I'll give that a try later. This is without VDMSound running.
Thanks again for any help!!
rms