Hmmm for anyone who still has problems in winXP and doesnt want to use DOSbox,.... I fixed it,... at least some part i played it on holiday in spain on my laptop and the build-in speakers are realy bad so i didn't install any sound drivers. but when you want to play whitout dosbox you have to enable your EMS memory. for that you access "Properties" from the IDMAS.EXE en go to "Memory" give it some EMS space i have 10240 or something like that. than just run IDMAS.EXE it worked for me.
I just started playing this game today and i realy love it. it a so simple game but the posibilties are enormous. Big it up for Max Design
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later and have fun playing