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[The Fifth Horseman]

If it was, I'd been banned a long time ago.

It's only been yesterday when I have obtained the CD version of Flashback through the network - and that one isn't so popular, oh no.

Hello all. I've also been having problems getting this game to run. But i think i've fixed it now following some of the suggestions here.

Anyway as a longtime fan of the first game in the series(oh those amiga days ) i was very happy to find this here after spending years trying to find an origonal copy(which i'll still search for). So thanks to the guys here for hosting it k:

Anyway looking at the many posts about memmory error messages that people were getting, and having the same errors whenever i launched 'star.exe', i thought i'd provide some more help on that subject.

I guess this might be useful for non-XP(and non DOSBOX) users like myself.

After killing my computer for a short while after messing around with my Config.sys and Autoexec files trying to resolve the memmory error messages, i did finaly manage to find the EATXMS.EXE file that had been discussed here.

You can find it on this site, along with lots of usefull info on running old games:

http://www.oldskool.org/guides/oldonnew/resources

the way i resolved the problem was to use a boot-disk(the one available on this site in the utilities section worked fine for the experiment) then after booting with that disk i went into the EATXMS folder in DOS and typed:

eatxms 32000

followed by enter, which lost me 32MB of my memmory, which in turn enabled me to launch the game from its folder by typing:

star

followed by enter.

The PC i was running it on is a P166 with 48MB ram and win98se(my 'old game' pc).

the command 'eatxms 32000' made sure i was running around the 16MB memmory limit the game needs to run and will need to be adjusted depending on the ammount of memmory you may have in your machine.

e.g If you have 128MB of memmory you would use 'eatxms 112000' (112,000KB)or something like that, you may have to experiment untill you see the title screen.

Now the next issue i have is trying to work out why i seem to start 15-20 days into the game, with no clear option to re-start from the begining of the game with my own characters.

Anyway i hope this helps some of the people trying to run this game that were having the annoying:

'Star-Trail needs xxxxxxxx ammount of EMS+XMS memmory, and you only have xxxxxxxxxxxx(a bigger number!) available'

type error messages.

In the meantime i'm starting out in the first game in the series(which has all the music and seems to be the full game - excellent!).

Originally posted by Guest3@Mar 1 2006, 10:55 PM
Now the next issue i have is trying to work out why i seem to start 15-20 days into the game, with no clear option to re-start from the begining of the game with my own characters.

Must be a saved game that was there that loads everytime you start the game. Whenever you save a game in all three games of the trilogy, there's automatically saved a game which can't be loaded from the loading menu, called lastgame. (that's right, without 3-letter ending). It's still a normal savegame, you can try and rename it to xxx.gam (xxx for whatever name you choose) and then load, it will be loaded. It's there for immediately loading automatically when the game starts.
All you need to do is to save a game on your own and the lastgame. will be modified to load your game everytime. And when not, remove the write-only attribute from it (right-click...), then save your game.

erhh... when i start the game it loads some old savefile automaticliy...how do i start another party/ start over?

Add already existing characters into your party, or if there're none create some yourself. It's anyway adviseable to create own characters than to add the pre-created ones that are automatically there, you can make your characters what you like them to be and they can also be better with some time taken to generate good stats for them.

Oh, sorry, and for starting a new game - click on the disk icon to load or save a game, and choose New Game there. That should do it if I remember correctly. If not, just delete the file lastgame. in the Games-folder and you will start over when you start the game.

[punch999]

Im sorry if this is off topic but. Gamefreak are you sure you don't want to join this forum. You would be one of the most valuable people here and be able to access the rest of the forum. Please.....

I was already earlier registered here and tried to be helpful for this forum. It turned out my help wasn't appreciated. Not again.
I'm content now with helping people occasionally out, but I won't do anything for this forum again.

[punch999]

What were you talking about I thought your help was great.

Originally posted by Gamefreak+Mar 2 2006, 11:07 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Gamefreak @ Mar 2 2006, 11:07 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Gamefreak@Mar 1 2006

Must be a saved game that was there that loads everytime you start the game. Whenever you save a game in all three games of the trilogy, there's automatically saved a game which can't be loaded from the loading menu, called lastgame.

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ok thanks Gamefreak for the info
I'm just starting my adventures for the Sword Grimring in the first game, but when i'm done i'll have another look at this game and see how that works out(i guess i might be some time though!)