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Started by t5hoo6 Aug 26, 2005 at 6:13 PM 3 replies 300+ views

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Aug 26, 2005 at 6:13 PM

I am tring to run a game I bought last month at a thrift store. Here are the system Requirments: 386, 2MB RAM ESM memory MCGA/VGA 3.5" HD disk drive mouse I copied the requirements correctly, I can install the game on any PC (exept winXP), but I always get the same problem: ERROR: NO EMS MEMORY CONTACT YOUR COMPUTER ADMINISTRATER OR READ YOUR OWNER MANUAL What is the problem with the game?? The game if FRONTIER ELITE II

SiCrane

Aug 26, 2005 at 6:15 PM

You might want to try a DOS emulator like DosBox.

doynax

Aug 26, 2005 at 6:18 PM

Recent Windows versions doesn't try very hard to emulate DOS applications (especially games) properly. Though I would've thought that they'd provide an EMS driver at least..
Try running it with an emulator such as dosbox or vmware instead.

Still.. DOS emulators tend to be fairly slow and unpractical, you may want to consider trying the Amiga or even Atari ST version of the game instead (for which there are decent emulators available).

It's a great game by the way, a true classic.

t5hoo6

Aug 26, 2005 at 6:20 PM

I'm in dos most of the time.

doynax

Aug 26, 2005 at 6:24 PM

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Original post by t5hoo6
I'm in dos most of the time.

If you're truly running a native DOS version then you'll need to add an EMS driver (like emm386.exe) in your config.sys file.

A standard installation should have this already though, otherwise it's probably covered by your DOS manual and google of course.

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