Ems Xms

[Shipgate]

I've managed to procure an older computer today with Win95 and the CD-ROM works in true DOS as well. I haven't installed any of my old Wing Commander games but I'm trying to install some old Westwood games and once I have them installed and I type the command to play them it says something about noth enough ems or xms memory. 512k required to play. This isn't exactly Wing Commander tech support related but I was wondering if any of you remember old games saying this and how to solve that little problem. Thank you.

 

[Worf]

Ah, well, you'll need to do several things.

First, you'll need to know if you need XMS or EMS memory - they're incompatible, and you can have one or the other (more or less). Then use a real DOS - DOS 6.22. There's a utility on there called "memmaker" that'll help you set up memory properly - most likely, you'll need an all-XMS configuration, and one that has EMS allocated, as well as one without any memory managers.

 

[BarFly]

Hello,

I've managed to procure an older computer today with Win95 and the CD-ROM works in true DOS as well. I haven't installed any of my old Wing Commander games but I'm trying to install some old Westwood games and once I have them installed and I type the command to play them it says something about noth enough ems or xms memory. 512k required to play. This isn't exactly Wing Commander tech support related but I was wondering if any of you remember old games saying this and how to solve that little problem. Thank you.

This will help:

http://www.crius.net/zone/showthread.php?t=3331

Ciao Hans