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Trying to run an old game on new computer.  Help, please.

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Kevin J. Nielsen - 18 Nov 2006 07:17 GMT
{Sorry, I forgot to cross-post the first time}

I have an Asus K8V mb and an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2 GHz with 1.5 GB ram

I have Windows XP home installed and I am using Bootit NG.

I created a 540 MB FAT16 partition at the beginning of hard drive 0 and
installed Dos 6.2 os
I am trying to play an old Dos game "Syndicate" and it will not run
properly; it installs ok and says it detects sound but I get no sound, then
when I click to start mission, the program shuts down.

    I am sure that Dos or the game doesnt understand my hardware so I
probably need an interface that will make Dos think it is an old computer.

   I am also trying to install windows 95 on this partition but I
keep getting the errors "insufficient memory to initialize windows" and
"while intializing IOS  Windows protection error."   I added the lines
MaxPhysPage=30000, MinFileCache=51200 and MaxFileCache=56320 to my
system.ini file and that stopped the memory error only to be replaced by the
IOS error. I turned off the L2 cache to stop the IOS error and then I
received the error "insufficient memory to initialize windows"  again.

 Does anyone know of an interface program that will emulate an old computer
and make Dos and Windows 95 think it is running on an old computer?

     I checked out VMWare but it doent support Dos 6.2 or Windows 95.
Virtual PC 2004 and 2007 seems to require XP professional.  I would like to
find a program that will do what Virtual PC does in the Windows XP home
environment.  If that is the only program available then I guess I will have
to buy XP professional.  However, if there are other programs available, I
would love to hear about them.

Thank You

Kevin Nielsen
Ben Myers - 18 Nov 2006 14:42 GMT
As mentioned by someone who replied to your original post, try starting
the computer in Safe mode by tapping the F8 key during bootup.  If that
works, install the AMD high speed processor patch.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/192841

Ben

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Kevin J. Nielsen - 19 Nov 2006 05:11 GMT
It wont even start in safe mode.

Kevin

As mentioned by someone who replied to your original post, try starting
the computer in Safe mode by tapping the F8 key during bootup.  If that
works, install the AMD high speed processor patch.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/192841

Ben

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Ben Myers - 19 Nov 2006 07:21 GMT
Download
http://download.microsoft.com/download/win98se/update/1/w95/en-us/amdk6upd.exe
Open the file with WinZip, extract the files to a floppy and copy them
to the problem computer as follows:

All versions
ESDI_506.PDR  c:\windows\system\iosubsys
SCSIPORT.PDR  c:\windows\system\iosubsys

Windows 95 OSR2 and later
HSFLOP.PDR    c:\windows\system\iosubsys
CDFS.VXD   c:\windows\system\iosubsys
DISKTSD.VXD    c:\windows\system\iosubsys
IOS.VXD   c:\windows\system\vmm32
INT13.VXD   c:\windows\system\vmm32
VFBACKUP.VXD  c:\windows\system\vmm32

Windows 95 OSR  2.1 and later
NTKERN.VXD    c:\windows\system\vmm32

Ben

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Kevin J. Nielsen - 20 Nov 2006 00:18 GMT
Thank You Ben Myers.  I did receive the same solution from the
microsoft.public.win95.setup newsgroup and it worked!!  I can now boot to
Windows 95.  My game wont work though because it has to run in dos.  Also my
sound card wont work in Win95 and it says it doesnt support Win95.  I am
going to try using Virtual PC 2004.

Thank You

Kevin

Download
http://download.microsoft.com/download/win98se/update/1/w95/en-us/amdk6upd.exe
Open the file with WinZip, extract the files to a floppy and copy them
to the problem computer as follows:

All versions
ESDI_506.PDR  c:\windows\system\iosubsys
SCSIPORT.PDR  c:\windows\system\iosubsys

Windows 95 OSR2 and later
HSFLOP.PDR    c:\windows\system\iosubsys
CDFS.VXD   c:\windows\system\iosubsys
DISKTSD.VXD    c:\windows\system\iosubsys
IOS.VXD   c:\windows\system\vmm32
INT13.VXD   c:\windows\system\vmm32
VFBACKUP.VXD  c:\windows\system\vmm32

Windows 95 OSR  2.1 and later
NTKERN.VXD    c:\windows\system\vmm32

Ben
philo - 19 Nov 2006 11:41 GMT
> {Sorry, I forgot to cross-post the first time}
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>     I am sure that Dos or the game doesnt understand my hardware so I
> probably need an interface that will make Dos think it is an old computer.

The problem is due to the CPU being too fast.

try mosolo

otherwise find and older computer to use
Kevin J. Nielsen - 02 Dec 2006 11:36 GMT
I received a post from  "buck huffman"  in basic.dos newsgroup.  Dosbox
allows me to run my game without having to create a virtual machine and it
slows down the speed to emulate an old computer so that my game runs like it
did years ago.

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/

Regards

Kevin Nielsen

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Kevin J. Nielsen - 02 Dec 2006 11:37 GMT
I received a post from  "buck huffman"  in basic.dos newsgroup.  Dosbox
allows me to run my game without having to create a virtual machine and it
slows down the speed to emulate an old computer so that my game runs like it
did years ago.

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/

Regards

Kevin Nielsen

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