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[marko river]

Wow, that's great. Could you please create the the precise instructions how to make everything work? Along with what to type? I will then add it into review page so others can do it too.

And thank you

[theelf]

Originally Posted by marko river

Wow, that's great. Could you please create the the precise instructions how to make everything work? Along with what to type? I will then add it into review page so others can do it too.

And thank you

Of course!!!


Sorry my english im spanish. Hope is useful for someone








In real DOS


I tested Jim Power in 3 different PCs


386DX40 - 2GB HDD FAT16 - DOS6.22
5x86 133mhz - 38GB HDD FAT32 - 2GB FAT16 - DOS6.22
Pentium 2 333mhz - 80GB HDD FAT32 - DOS7


In all computers, the game freeze, and hangs


After many test, I realize, the game dont freeze in the 386 if I play from floppy disk, but have random freeze from hard disk

I change the 1GB hard disk, with other smaller, a seagate 160mb, FAT16, and works OK


I think, the game have a problem with partitions FAT16 more than 512mb (cluster size?). Works Ok in FAT12 and FAT16 512mb or less



In the 5x86 without turbo (40mhz) and Pentium 2 without cache, from floppy the game run OK too


It seems this game is very sensitive to two things


1 - Speed of CPU (40mhz max?¿)
2 - disk drive







To successfully play Jim Power without any freeze in DOSbox, do this



1 - Download the game with installer, and the trainer


2 - Extract Jim Power file in to a temporary folder, for example "c:\games\jiminst" and mount in dosbox



3 - Inside dosbox, install Jim Power to disc C (install c, the game always install in a folder called "JimPower"


4 - mount Jim Power game folder to A: like a floppy

mount a c:\games\jimpower


Is important to mount JimPower folder, to have all files in root of virtual A floppy


5 - Copy trainer to A


6 - Before play game, set cycles to 3500, no more!


4 - Start game from drive A: with trainer (cf-jim)


5 - In start screen, press F11 to unlock keys




Is important to play game from A drive. From C drive, is cycles are 3500 or lower, the game look like is working OK, but have random crashes...

From A drive, and cycles 3500, I finishes the game yesterday without any trouble. From disc C and and cycles 3500, the game work Ok until second stage, when have a crash



NOTE: With the installer, the crack is not necessary. Using crack is easy. But if want to use game without crack, just configure the keys and joystick before mount to A