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[laiocfar]

How to use dosbox?Do as follows

It opens in z and must mount a directory "c:"(u can take anyother) with the games folder

Example of mounting MOO and run it in Dosbox:
Z:> mount c: c:/games
Z:> c:
C:>cd MOO
c:/MOO>master

when wrote " / " i wanna wrote the other diagonal bar.

Originally posted by laiocfar@Jan 14 2006, 06:35 AM
when wrote " / " i wanna wrote the other diagonal bar.

Doesn't matter which one is written, either \ or /, both can be used, and not only in DosBox.

As soon as I got the doom mastery enchantment, the enemy wizards fell before my almighty mutant army! HAH!
Love this game.

One of my favorite games of all times!

My favorite setup is to choose at least 2 books from life, chaos, sorcery, then artificer and runemaster. With this combination, you can make artifacts, then burn them into mana for twice what they cost you. A +1 damage sword costs 38 mana to create, and gives you 75 mana when you convert it.

This gives you two advantages:
1. You get as much mana as you have skill every turn. This gets even better when you have heros with spell casting ability, who increase your effective skill for overland spells.
2. You can deck out your heros with superior artifacts.

After my initial selection, you still have three slots to use. You can:
1. add 3 chaos books. This allows you to make weapons with lightning ability, which halves your target armor. Shuri with a lightning bow easily takes out sky drakes.
2. Add 3 life books. You can create armor with invulnerability. This makes your heros very tough, especially in the early going. An Invulnerable Brax will take out all neutral towns, and most light to medium defended nodes.
3. Start on myrror. Always a good thing, gives you more time to create those artifacts, better nodes and ruins to attack, and more mana.

[another_guest]

Agreed

Though the monsters on Myrror always seem tougher in the beginning than on the other plane.

[Borodin]

I only wish somebody would remake the damn thing. MoM was a superb game, but too complex for any AI to handle. As Stardock has just released its GalCiv 2, maybe they'll return to MoM 2, but I'm doubtful. It sounded as though they'd parted company with MoM's potential publisher at some previous point.

Hi!
I have got a problem. Every time I try to run master of magic it says "insufficient memory. You need at least 538k free. Try removing all TSR´s"

Yes, I know theres Dosbox, but I have got Win 98, with 650 Mhz. Can anybody help me? Very interesting is, that five years ago I spent hours and hours in playing it- on the same PC. I learned lots of englisch by the trial-and-error
-system, what this spell would do and so on...(my native language is german)
Very interesting riddles often. You cant imagine my surprise when I got my first magic creature! (it was a basilik)


PS: I preferred nature, because of the change Terrain an earth lore spell in the early game. Later the global enchantments were totaly ruling, e.g. wrath of nature or herb mastery.

I can try to help you, but first of all I need few things of you. First is how much memory do you have on Windows 98? Second copy and paste the exact content of autoexec.bat and config.sys of your machine you're using here and I'll modify it for you so that you have enough memory after for Master of Magic. The modified content you can save then in your autoexec.bat and config.sys. Also you'll need to play the game in a Dos shell (that attachment on your desktop or in the start-menu) and not directly out from Windows, then the game should work.
And last but not least - you need to download the program Slowdown here and use it to slow your pc down everytime you play Master of Magic as otherwise you'll get pretty unpleasant sound errors while in the game, and the game will often produce otherwise not available bugs.

Wow, that would be great!
The Dos-Shell starts automatically, so thats not a problem. I downloaded the slowdownprogramme, and the memory is 128 MB RAM.

The Autoexec.bat:

SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H7 P330 T6
SET SBPCI=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\AUDIO\DOSDRV

mode con codepage prepare=((850) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi)
mode con codepage select=850
keyb gr,,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\keyboard.sys


and the config.sys:

[menu]
menuitem=CD, Computer mit CD-ROM-Unterst�tzung starten.
menuitem=NOCD, Computer ohne CD-ROM-Unterst�tzung starten.
menuitem=HELP, Die Hilfedatei anzeigen.
menudefault=CD,30
menucolor=7,0

[CD]
device=himem.sys /testmemff
device=oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001
device=btdosm.sys
device=flashpt.sys
device=btcdrom.sys /D:mscd001
device=aspi2dos.sys
device=aspi8dos.sys
device=aspi4dos.sys
device=aspi8u2.sys
device=aspicd.sys /D:mscd001

[NOCD]
device=himem.sys /testmemff

[HELP]
device=himem.sys /testmemff

[COMMON]
files=10
buffers=10
dos=high,umb
stacks=9,256
devicehigh=ramdrive.sys /E 2048
lastdrive=z
device=display.sys con=(ega,,1)
country=049,850,country.sys
install=mode.com con cp prepare=((850) ega.cpi)
install=mode.com con cp select=850
install=keyb.com gr,,keyboard.sys


Won't there be any problems if I change them? I always thought that they are essential and should not be changed? Even though thanks a lot for your help!

They can and need to be changed to fit the configuration on your PC to your needs. That's actually the first thing one needs to do after installing Windows 98 or 95 on their PC, if he's playing Dos games on his machine.
Anyway, here are the modified versions (changes are underlined):

Config.sys
[menu]
menuitem=CD, Computer mit CD-ROM-Unterst�tzung starten.
menuitem=NOCD, Computer ohne CD-ROM-Unterst�tzung starten.
menuitem=HELP, Die Hilfedatei anzeigen.
menudefault=CD,30
menucolor=7,0

[CD]
device=himem.sys /testmemff
device=emm386.exe RAM
devicehigh=oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001
devicehigh=btdosm.sys
devicehigh=flashpt.sys
devicehigh=btcdrom.sys /D:mscd001
devicehigh=aspi2dos.sys
devicehigh=aspi8dos.sys
devicehigh=aspi4dos.sys
devicehigh=aspi8u2.sys
devicehigh=aspicd.sys /D:mscd001

[NOCD]
device=himem.sys /testmemff
device=emm386.exe RAM

[HELP]
device=himem.sys /testmemff

[COMMON]
files=20
buffers=10
dos=high,umb
stacks=9,256
devicehigh=ramdrive.sys /E 2048
lastdrive=z
devicehigh=display.sys con=(ega,,1)
country=049,850,country.sys
install=mode.com con cp prepare=((850) ega.cpi)
install=mode.com con cp select=850
install=keyb.com gr,,keyboard.sys

Autoexec.bat
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H7 P330 T6
SET SBPCI=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\AUDIO\DOSDRV

mode con codepage prepare=((850) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi)
mode con codepage select=850
lh keyb gr,,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\keyboard.sys
mode con: rate=32 delay=1
LH path:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001 /L:X /E

Remark - in the line with mscdex.exe the path is where your mscdex.exe is located (for example c:\windows\mscdex.exe), you need to find where it is if it's not in your Windows folder, and /L:X - X is the letter of your CD drive, replace X with that letter. Also loading mscdex.exe is essential to have CD-Rom access after quitting Windows and restarting in Dos-mode. If you never restart in Dos-mode, you don't need to load mscdex.exe and can remove the line.
mode con: rate=32 delay=1 is just for faster keyboard repeat-rate and shorter delay while typing something in Dos-shell or in Dos-games.
Ansonsten viel Glück! k: