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Originally posted by kajjj@Mar 16 2006, 10:15 PM
she is running it in win98 already

in the Memory tab you should have couple of different memory names: conventional, base, expanded etc.
try altering them: they are on 'auto' now (probably), set them with one of the higher values.

I remember playing it on win98, never had problems with it...
strange

Set everything on the max memory available, still doesnt work...

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Originally posted by Sabina@Mar 17 2006, 12:56 PM
It's from 97. I dont get the option you suggest, when right clicking...?

You only have that option in winxp, I didn't read that you have win98, sorry ;)

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Originally posted by Red Sandwich@Mar 17 2006, 03:13 AM
I've just opened a DOS box (just a DOS command prompt window, not the DOSBox program) and typed the command MEM at the prompt. The MEM program has come back and told me that I have 572Kb of free conventional memory.

If you open a DOS window and type MEM what does it say

It says I have 573k of free memory.

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Originally posted by Red Sandwich@Mar 17 2006, 03:13 AM
I also find that for those that it won't run I just have to boot into real DOS either as my computer starts - if you hold down the F8 key just after the computer has recognised its disks it will give to a menu; choose the Command Prompt option to enter DOS rather than Windows - or by shutting down Windows and selecting the Restart in MS-DOS mode option.

Ive tried that to... but im probably not doing it right. What ever i write it says "invalid directory". What exactly am i supposed to write?

It say invalid directory when you are trying to do what?

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Originally posted by Eagle of Fire@Mar 17 2006, 04:26 PM
It say invalid directory when you are trying to do what?

When i try to run the game from dosprompt. I cant get it to leave windows and go to the C directory, where the acclaim folder is located. I havent used dos much on this computer, so maybe im doing something wrong?

to go to c type:
c:

then
cd acclaim

if the folder is in the main directory of course

Tell us exactly in which directory your game is located, and we will tell you what to do.

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Originally posted by Eagle of Fire@Mar 18 2006, 05:21 AM
Tell us exactly in which directory your game is located, and we will tell you what to do.

Its on the C drive in a folder called "ACCLAIM". In that folder is another folder called "CN" and thats where the game titled "game" is located.

Here is two essential commands you should know:

CD (which mean Change Directory)
DIR (used to show you what is in the current directory)

So, when you get to c:\ at the beginning, type

CD ACCLAIM

then type

DIR

At that point, you should see what is in the acclaim directory. It should be exactly the same thing than browsing the directory in Win98, but only in text. Assuming that you then need to continue to the CN directory, type

CD CN

And you should be in the CN directory. Type DIR again to see the files, and spot those ending in .exe, .com and .bat. One of those files is the executable needed to start the game, usually it's a .bat.

Something else you need to know: DOS support only files with 8 characters long, along with the 3 character extention. Windows can go over that, that's why you might encounter files ending with ~1. You can still access those files or directory, but you must find the ~ on your keyboard and type the exact same thing than you see when you type DIR. To prevent this, rename all directories or files longer than 8 characters in the directries you need to access for DOS gaming.