1GB sounds really big. I remember some games had troubles detecting memory above a certain amount, due to some kind of overflowing in their mem counters. I'd suggest trying to set a more classic amount of ram on your vbox machine... Like 64MB or so.
Mateusz / Mobile mail / Louis Santillan <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm having trouble running an old favorite DOS game that requires EMS >inside of VirtualBox (Sierra Front Page Sports Football Pro 95). The >game requires 576K Conventional RAM, and 2MB EMS. I've configured >VirtualBox to have 1GB and installed FPS FB Pro 95 to a 32GB FAT32 >drive with FreeDOS 1.1. Booting into Option 2, mem/c reports >610K/13K/0K/1GB/32M of Conventional/Upper/Reserved/XMS/EMS free. >Running the command to start the game, FPS FB Pro 95 halts, reporting >that it found 610K Conventional and 0K EMS available. I've tried >various options on jemmex/jemm386, changes to fdconfig.sys, and >changes to VirtualBox but none seem to get FPS FB Pro 95 to recognize >the available EMS. > >Suggestions? > >-L ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How fast is your code? 3 out of 4 devs don\\\'t know how their code performs in production. Find out how slow your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219672;13503038;z? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
