In your vm disable the printer lpt1 and serial port as they may try to grab some resources. An AI resource said the game was not protected mode. The same resource said the game auto configures the sound is that the case that there isn’t a setup menu within the game? When sbemu runs what output do you see on boot?
> On Feb 9, 2026, at 5:05 PM, Rugxulo via Freedos-user > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2026 at 1:36 PM Franco Martelli via Freedos-user > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> On 26/01/26 at 21:12, Liam Proven via Freedos-user wrote: >>> On 23/12/2025 14:03, Franco Martelli via Freedos-user wrote: >>>> >>>> my goal is to run the DOS game "Space Ace" >> >> I'm reading many issue reports on GitHub SBEMU's homepage, here: >> https://github.com/crazii/SBEMU/issues/46 >> the maintainer wrote that the games "16 bit protected mode" are >> currently not supported. >> >> Is there a way in FreeDOS 1.4 to verify whether "Space Ace" is a game >> that runs in "16 bit protected mode"? Thanks in advance! > > 16-bit pmode is somewhat rare and usually something from Borland > Pascal (with rtm.exe and dpmi16bi.ovl or such). Normally that's the > "NE" format executable. But I don't have an easy suggestion for > identifying it outside of some detection tool. > > * https://www.sac.sk/download/pack/typ_d32.zip > * https://www.sac.sk/download/pack/typ_w32.zip > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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