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re: Question about 'My extra-cool DOS game won't run under Windows'
Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 9:17 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C Griffith
(1 messages posted)
IFor Windows Millennium users you can either try tweaking the options of the EXE/COM
file or make a startup disk. I recommend attempting the try the former first, then
the latter. To change the options of an EXE or COM file.
Right click on the icon and left click on Properties.
First of all click on Program at the top and tick the box "Prevent MS-DOS programs
from detecting Windows".
Click on the memory tab at the top and you can change the amount of Expanded memory
in there. I recommend about 4096, which should be okay for most games. The program
usually indicates how much it needs however.
Click on OK at the bottom to save the changes and try running the game again.
if it doesn't let you adjust the expanded memory support in a WinME Dos Box, it’s
probably because EMM386.EXE can’t load without help. You should explicitly tell WinME
where in upper memory to place the page frame. This is done by adding an EmmPageFrame=
statement in the c:\Windows\SYSTEM.INI file under [386Enh]. This can be easily accomplished
using the msconfig utility installed with WinME.
If you are unfamiliar configuring upper memory, or don’t have access to a good analysis
tool, you might try one of the following common settings...
EmmPageFrame=D000
EmmPageFrame=E000
EmmPageFrame=C400
EmmPageFrame=C800
On Tuesday, January 29, 2002 at 7:12 am, Michael wrote:
>Microsoft went to great lengths to hide DOS from users, but it is still there in
>ME. Also, there is a great deal of hardware that didn't have decent drivers written
>for ME.
>
>Basically, ME is stuck in the middle - trying not to be DOS, and not succeeding
in
>being an NT-based OS. If you want to play DOS games, switch to 98 - it's more stable
>and has more drivers written for it.
>
>
>On Monday, January 28, 2002 at 7:38 pm, Ferrett Bryant wrote:
>Many DOS games that i have dont work with ME and even some old Hardware doesnt work
>with ME such as Light Guns. Is there something like a patch that i can download
>that will make ME work with 95/98 software and hardware?
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