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Computer Gurus! Help me get an oldie DOS-only game on track.
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I've recently put my dirty claws on a game I saw a very long time ago at a friend's house. The game is called "Crusader: No Regret". Some of you may be familiar with the game, an action game, with lots and lots of fun.
Of course, things cannot go that smoothly. The game doesn't launch in Win9x. It actually fails to compile or something, 'because I get some sort of compiler error on a *.c file. So, I say, OK, you're one classy game, you deserve the respect. I am going to actually honour you, and launch the PC through the command prompt for you.
Now of course, this raises a****load myriad of problems.
As I remember, in MS-DOS noone can hear you scream. You need all sorts of gismos like expanded memory managers, Extended memory managers, and god knows what else. The fun part is that I never understood what those two memories meant, but that's not everything. In that sense, I need a healthy MS-DOS enviroment. What I also need, is a working sound card. This is another black hole for me, because it seems that for some reason, the oldie-card emulator doesn't work well in windows, meaning, it works for some games, and, ahem, doesn't exist for others. DOS drivers for my card are out of the question, since it's "only" 3 years old. I know there is that whole "set blaster=Axxx Ix Dx and crap. you also need a similar "set midi" line or something. Maybe I am completely wrong, and it won't help. In either case, please instruct me.
I want to thank in advance all of you, and to say that I really appreciate the effort.
I've recently put my dirty claws on a game I saw a very long time ago at a friend's house. The game is called "Crusader: No Regret". Some of you may be familiar with the game, an action game, with lots and lots of fun.
Of course, things cannot go that smoothly. The game doesn't launch in Win9x. It actually fails to compile or something, 'because I get some sort of compiler error on a *.c file. So, I say, OK, you're one classy game, you deserve the respect. I am going to actually honour you, and launch the PC through the command prompt for you.
Now of course, this raises a
As I remember, in MS-DOS noone can hear you scream. You need all sorts of gismos like expanded memory managers, Extended memory managers, and god knows what else. The fun part is that I never understood what those two memories meant, but that's not everything. In that sense, I need a healthy MS-DOS enviroment. What I also need, is a working sound card. This is another black hole for me, because it seems that for some reason, the oldie-card emulator doesn't work well in windows, meaning, it works for some games, and, ahem, doesn't exist for others. DOS drivers for my card are out of the question, since it's "only" 3 years old. I know there is that whole "set blaster=Axxx Ix Dx and crap. you also need a similar "set midi" line or something. Maybe I am completely wrong, and it won't help. In either case, please instruct me.
I want to thank in advance all of you, and to say that I really appreciate the effort.
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