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bOOnty
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Hey guys !!
> You all seem to know a lot of stuff about the universe of Origin Games
Well, do you also know how to properly run them on a new, faster machine (for example a Athlon 1700/WIN98 2nd/394 MB RAM) ????
I'm asking u that cos i can't get it running even in Win98's Dos Real Mode (i mean with complete reboot in the dos huh, not a simple dos prompt window, but u've already got it sry
) )
Effectively, every time i try to load the game it gives me the following error messages :
With emm386 OFF : after memory intitialization stage 1 finishes succesfully, i get :
"Halted file MEMORY\CPROTMEM.C line 1634"
With emm386 ON > 2048 RAM allocated for EMS it says , still after stage 1 success :
"FATAL ERROR 286.3330", followed by the usual memory error addresses.
The fun thing on this one is that, according to the Bioforge (yes, i said Bioforge, wich apparently uses nearly the same dynamic memory initialization system and wich surprisingly works right on my machine) install guide i've kept preciously all these years, the 286.3330 error means ... hum... that u have not enough ... XMS memory (i remember i said i had 394 MB :=) )
I get the same message with the NOEMS parameter added after emm386.exe on the config.sys file, making me think that the problem doesn't come from EMS management.
With emm386 ON < 2048 RAM for EMS, once again after stage 1 success :
"Fragment 0 bellow minimum size, not enough memory"
FInally, here's the greatest : when himem off (i just add REM on the device=windows\command\himem.sys line of the config.sys file) the games finishes the 2 stages, allocates all the "memory fragments" as it says , and freezes at the final game loading (aaaargh !!!!! i was 'bout to make it !!!!) which is understandable cos without himem, we all know that there's no XMS management and so virtually no XMS (RAM) memory available in dos mode and i've never heard of anyone who has managed to make anygames work without a byte of ram :=)
I really hope i've been clear enough and that i've not taken too much of ur time in this great piece of work on the WC world
Ps: By the way, has EA Games ever talked about making sequels to Origin's Bioforge and WCP itself ?
> You all seem to know a lot of stuff about the universe of Origin Games
Well, do you also know how to properly run them on a new, faster machine (for example a Athlon 1700/WIN98 2nd/394 MB RAM) ????
I'm asking u that cos i can't get it running even in Win98's Dos Real Mode (i mean with complete reboot in the dos huh, not a simple dos prompt window, but u've already got it sry
) )Effectively, every time i try to load the game it gives me the following error messages :
With emm386 OFF : after memory intitialization stage 1 finishes succesfully, i get :
"Halted file MEMORY\CPROTMEM.C line 1634"
With emm386 ON > 2048 RAM allocated for EMS it says , still after stage 1 success :
"FATAL ERROR 286.3330", followed by the usual memory error addresses.
The fun thing on this one is that, according to the Bioforge (yes, i said Bioforge, wich apparently uses nearly the same dynamic memory initialization system and wich surprisingly works right on my machine) install guide i've kept preciously all these years, the 286.3330 error means ... hum... that u have not enough ... XMS memory (i remember i said i had 394 MB :=) )
I get the same message with the NOEMS parameter added after emm386.exe on the config.sys file, making me think that the problem doesn't come from EMS management.
With emm386 ON < 2048 RAM for EMS, once again after stage 1 success :
"Fragment 0 bellow minimum size, not enough memory"
FInally, here's the greatest : when himem off (i just add REM on the device=windows\command\himem.sys line of the config.sys file) the games finishes the 2 stages, allocates all the "memory fragments" as it says , and freezes at the final game loading (aaaargh !!!!! i was 'bout to make it !!!!) which is understandable cos without himem, we all know that there's no XMS management and so virtually no XMS (RAM) memory available in dos mode and i've never heard of anyone who has managed to make anygames work without a byte of ram :=)
I really hope i've been clear enough and that i've not taken too much of ur time in this great piece of work on the WC world
Ps: By the way, has EA Games ever talked about making sequels to Origin's Bioforge and WCP itself ?
