Try playing with different memory configurations. Try running loadfix before invoking the game.

Was messing with it for most of last night. I tried the load fix and a couple times said not enough memory, then I got a decent configuration where the error did not pop up anymore. Only problem is I type in the command to execute the program now and nothing happens. no more error.. but the game does not open and i go back to the command prompt... weird..

Then you typed loadfix too often 😉
Start dosbox, type "loadfix" once, then try to start the game.

How did you install the game?

ok well I extracted the zip file into a fold. started up dosbox. mounted the folder as c. ran the setup and installed to a new folder.

closed dos box and restarted mounting again. Went to new installation folder. typed loadfix -275. then simearth. no errors. nothing happens.

> loadfix -275

Try loadfix without parameters, should allocate 64k.

Also try reinstalling, but do NOT close dosbox after that, just see
if the game works.

im getting the original error when i use loadfix with out param. I reinstalled sim earth as well. after installation is automatically closes dosbox. so i reopen.. mount. go to new directoy. type loadfix. simearth. original error pops up.

weird, I download some other games and worked no prob but sim earth giving me allt hese headaches 🤣. I also downloaded a win 3.1 version and im getting that sweet windows subsystem error when trying to install during windows 😜

> after installation is automatically closes dosbox. so i reopen

Well maybe the installation has not finished. DOSBox doesn't just close,
something bad must have happened.
Might be a bad copy of the game, downloaded stuff is generally not
supported on the forum.

stinks cause i have the box just lost the floppy some where along the way lmao

Version from Underdogs works just fine for me. It's a Windows 3.x program, but both installation and game work under Windows XP without doing anything fancy. Just running it.

Ya, I downlaoded that one. installation tweaks on my xp when trying to install the program groups. It did however install to the proper directory and I was able to open the program but it freeze and have to close it down through task manager. tried the compatibility features with xp as well still no dice. guess my computer is allergic to simearth 😀

I don't know what you guys are doing, but Sim Earth works fine for me with DOSBox 0.65 (launch script + DOSBox configuration file attached).

Here are the files after the installation:

12007-01-26  19:39            19 071 GLOBE.OVL
22007-01-26  19:39            19 086 GR.OVL
32007-01-26  19:39           314 539 HCEGAIA.DAT
42007-01-26  19:39             3 636 HCEGAIA.NDX
52007-01-26  19:39            22 357 MAP.OVL
62007-01-26  19:39           103 455 SHARED.DAT
72007-01-26  19:39             1 516 SHARED.NDX
82007-01-26  19:39            24 660 SIM.OVL
92007-01-26  19:39                32 SIMEARTH.CFG
102007-01-26  19:39           406 274 SIMEARTH.EXE

And their md5 checksums:

164b253ddc084e833821b3a07ce03034 *GLOBE.OVL
24bda8b27485728b8cf0706999fa3cff *GR.OVL
3b6923cf94cd515595598e1363a9c2ee *HCEGAIA.DAT
4255c2c8ba7adfc7908ed05b2619ba7e *HCEGAIA.NDX
5921da8a8bb3ba48917ab43505f99999 *MAP.OVL
6ff495671699a3c84f378983b0c2855e *SHARED.DAT
712cbc44caf955bf18622b5fc2311e0d *SHARED.NDX
886199f1d26879bcf336ce26983378d7 *SIM.OVL
98b8753a978a212bacbc5706576f2875 *SIMEARTH.CFG
10c26cfebc3c48db3f37da075579cb9d7 *SIMEARTH.EXE

appreciate your help mini. I used the script as shown. had the installation files in the unzipped folder. re-installed through the script. restarted script. typed simearth to execute and got my original memory error that i posted in my first post. either im an idiot... jinxed... or perhaps both? 😀

Could you provide us with a listing of the C:\SIMEARTH directory immediately after the install (before the first run)? How does it compare with the listing I have? Are the checksums identical?

This helped me :

I decided to ditch the batch file which came with the .zip. Apparently mounting in the bat doesnt work, or atleast it causes something to go wrong. Here is what i did to get this to work :

start dosbox
mount a [x:\path here where\your simearth\install files are\located] ex. my line would look like this -> mount a c:\games\old\tmp
a:
install.exe [DONT run the setup.bat]
select drive A: [where you are installing from]
select drive C: [where you are installing to]
after this you can select screen resolutions and sound devices you like the most.
select preferred language
you can check the setup once more before programs copies the files.
press SPACE after copying is done.
once installation is complete, go to your new simearth folder and run simearth.exe.
Enjoy.

I assume reader has allready mounted hes/hers game directory to c: or similiar, so the final path might look somethign like this -> c:\simearth.

The .zip had custom made setup.bat which failed to mount virtual drive. I just manually made A: and then installed from it. Dosbox version 0.74.

Please do not necro post, meaning please don't reopen threads that are really old (this one over nine years)