First post, by nzoomed
Does anyone have any idea what could be going on with my computer?
Ive spent hours, testing memory, trying different RAM, running diagnostics only to find im having the same problem!
Basically ive noticed with a handful of games (but not everything I copy over) is causing issues. At first I thought it was EMM386 to blame, but its not.
I originally had loaded a bunch of various games on to my recently built 386.
I burnt a CD after extracting a bunch of games from their ZIP archives and then put it into my 386.
I thought it must have been some sort of error copying the games on the CD or trouble reading it with a fault with the drive.
I also thought that perhaps there was a problem with the multi I/O card and/or HDD.
But ive now eliminated these as a fault as ive just installed a CF card and got the games on that and having the same problem when running the games.
The main problems are the games typically have garbled sprites or sound during gameplay and/or hang with a blank screen either when loading, restarting the game or when you die.
Rockford for instance was hanging with a blank screen after you die, where it should normally return to the home screen, its sprites are also garbled on the characters.
With Crystal caves, it would simply hang on startup. Duke nukem 1 would give garbled sound.
Now, i was given a CF card from another person with a bunch of games and his copy of rockford works perfectly.
Comparing the two copies, they all report the same file sizes, but is there any program I can run on windows that can compare the two copies of files and see if there is any difference?
Im so confused with what is going on here, but it looks like the stuff im copying to floppies, CF cards and CD's on my machine is not working properly on the 386.
To make matters worse, its only doing it with some games, and ive tried downloading the same game from various sources to make sure my copy is not a one off corrupt download.