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Originally Posted by AlumiuN (Post 346352)

Well, your computer is officially twice as good as mine. Anyway, Menzo won't say you have enough extended memory if you are running it in XP, as XP doesn't give DOS programs extended memory, only expanded memory (or vice versa).

Thanks, I hadn't realized that XP would do that.

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It isn't hard to do, it is hard for me to REMEMBER,

Write it down? :huh:

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Originally Posted by Eagle of Fire (Post 346354)

Write it down? :huh:

I would, but then I lose the paper... I have done that before... There is no telling how many slips of paper ther eare in my room that have info I wrote down so I won't forget it, but then they fly off my desk, I put them someplace I will remember them, then promptly forget them... etc...

Write them down... IN your computer? Time stamped?

Then write it down on a piece of paper or simply switch from DOSBox to Notepad as needed. :p

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Originally Posted by Eagle of Fire (Post 346357)

Write them down... IN your computer? Time stamped?

Then write it down on a piece of paper or simply switch from DOSBox to Notepad as needed. :p

I usually do that, and the info is written down in a readme somewhere, I am just usually to lazy to go looking for it when I want to play a game :D

Write it on your monitor, with lipstick.

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Originally Posted by Luchsen (Post 346373)

Write it on your monitor, with lipstick.

Don't have lipstick :( I don't wear it ;) I do have paint, but it washes off to easily and I DO occasionally like to clean my screen. :D

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Originally Posted by dosraider (Post 346242)

mount d x:\ -t cdrom
That's it, not that hard I would think.
x:\ = your real CDdrive letter under Win.
Always mount your CDdrive as D, some games will only accept D as CDdrive, and always install your game IN dosbox. If it looks for a CD it will find it then, some store the CDdrive letter in a whatever.cfg file

XP has a basic SB emulation, problem is that the config params aren't the same as the SB emulated in dosbox.

For Darksun it runs best in dosbox configured as:
Run sound to configure sound params,
Answer no when asked if you want to use two soundcards and choose:
SB PRO 16 ASP
Do NOT accept default settings but choose:

adr 220
IRQ 7
DMA 1

Okay, i have gotten Menzo to work using this, though I STILL get that gravis error, it doesn't seem to affect my sound or anything...

I just need to finish creating my characters then try Darksun using this. Thanks

EDIT: I just did it using Darksun and that works, so now I have three games to play :D Thanks for your help.

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Originally Posted by kittybrod (Post 346384)

Okay, i have gotten Menzo to work using this, though I STILL get that gravis error, it doesn't seem to affect my sound or anything...

Open dosboxconfig and set GUS=FALSE under header [GUS], this should avoid that error message.

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Originally Posted by kittybrod (Post 346384)

EDIT: I just did it using Darksun and that works, so now I have three games to play :D Thanks for your help.

You're welcome, enjoy them.

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Originally Posted by dosraider (Post 346387)

Open dosboxconfig and set GUS=FALSE under header [GUS], this should avoid that error message.

You're welcome, enjoy them.

Thanks, I will try that. I get that gravis error with Darksun as well.. but not Lands of Lore... Oh well, it doesn't impact anything I can find. I have been playing Lands of Lore and Menzo today. Dark sun will have to wait as it is a bit harder for me to control through dosbox (does .72 have a way of resizing the dosbox window to something OTHER than fullscreen?)

Thanks for all your help everyone :D