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First post, by GeekOfDeath

Posted on 2008-01-15, 22:09

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I've downloaded a PDP-11 Emulator in order to play the original Lunar Lander. Unfortunately, the Lunar Lander program can only run on the DOS version of the emulator. This, I figured was a piece of cake with DOSBox.

The unfortunate part is that DOSBox refuses to admit it has enough memory to play the game; it spits out....

1?Insufficient memory

I checked around, and typed in....

1memsize 96

.... and it still didn't work. I took the risk of setting the memory to more than what I actually have.

I'd like to know if there's a way to fix this. I run Windows Vista Home Basic (yes, Vista), I have an Intel Core 2 Duo @ ~2 GHz and have 2 GB of RAM.

Reply 1 of 12, by MiniMax

Posted on 2008-01-15, 23:00

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You need to turn EMS off before running E11.

Either using the command

Z:\>ems off

before running E11, or editing dosbox.conf with ems=false.

Reply 2 of 12, by GeekOfDeath

Posted on 2008-01-15, 23:17

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For some reason, the computer refuses to allow me to save the config file, and shutting off EMS while in DOSBox has not worked.

"Access to C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.72\dosbox.conf was denied."

It's Vista. I know it is.

EDIT: Ok, I managed to save the config file. Now, it still doesn't work.

Last edited by GeekOfDeath on 2008-01-15, 23:28. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 3 of 12, by Dominus

Posted on 2008-01-15, 23:25

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In Vista you don'T have permission to write to files in the /program files/ directories. Either assign yourself the correct rights for dosbox.conf or make a new one at a location you have the necessary rights and start Dosbox with this conf file (see the readme).

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Reply 4 of 12, by GeekOfDeath

Posted on 2008-01-15, 23:29

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In case you missed the edit (out posts were close), I managed to get the config file saved.

Unfortunately, I still can't run E11.

Reply 5 of 12, by MiniMax

Posted on 2008-01-16, 00:16

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And EMS is off?

Reply 6 of 12, by GeekOfDeath

Posted on 2008-01-16, 01:00

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Yes it was off, but I'll try again anyways.

EDIT: No, it still doesn't work.

Reply 7 of 12, by MiniMax

Posted on 2008-01-16, 01:16

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And how do you know it is off?

Reply 8 of 12, by GeekOfDeath

Posted on 2008-01-16, 01:21

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Typing "EMS" into the console will result the response, "false".

Reply 9 of 12, by MiniMax

Posted on 2008-01-16, 11:28

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Ok 😀

Strange, it worked for me. Created a C-drive for DOSBox, ran the INSTALL.EXE which installed in C:\E11. Tried to run the E11.EXE without modifications to DOSBox and was greeted with the memory error message. Turned EMS off, re-ran E11.EXE and it started up.

Reply 10 of 12, by wd

Posted on 2008-01-16, 11:44

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turn off ems AND xms

Reply 11 of 12, by MiniMax

Posted on 2008-01-16, 11:47

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Ahh - I guess I turned off XMS first, saw that didn't work, then turned off EMS and it worked. So both needs to be off.

Reply 12 of 12, by GeekOfDeath

Posted on 2008-01-16, 12:05

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Yes! It works! Thanks a million!

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