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[raekwonchef]

Gang,

I used to play many of the "Super Solvers" series games as a child and have been trying to get them and other Borderbund/TLC games working for awhile now with issues. I am hoping some of you game gurus can help me get it working. I have a computer that I use for old DOS games and most every game I try works fine aside from these (because they are some of the oldest games I am trying to play).

Specifically, I need Operation Neptune working. This was one of my most favorite games as a young boy. I do see that the game has some DosBox compatibility, but I am, of course, against emulation mostly. I spent a lot of time putting together and configuring this PC for DOS to gain the real experieince again. Here are my PC details:

Pentium 3 733MHz CPU
256MB PC133 RAM @ 100MHz (other bios optimizations disabled to lower perfomance)
Gigabyte ga-6vxc7-4x motherboard (with ISA slot!)
Vibra 16 CT2260 (OEM CT2230) ISA soundcard (IRQ 7 - DMA 1,5)
ATI Rage Ultra 128 AGP (running at 1x AGP)
Two HDDs (one 10GB and one 40GB)

I am dual booting DOS 6.22 with enhanced tools and Windows 98 SE. 40GB drive is master with a 2GB FAT16 DOS partition up front, a second 4GB Windows 98 FAT32 partition next, and another FAT32 partition that uses the rest of the HDD as a storage partition for Windows. The second, 10GB HDD has a 2GB FAT16 partition on it as primary (I use this to share files between Windows 98SE and DOS 6.22 which is a hidden partition). The rest of the 10GB HDD is FAT32 storage for Windows. I had to use a second HDD because FAT16 partitions in LBA extended partitions are not readable by DOS. I use Partition Magic Boot Magic to dual boot both OSes.

I have almost every game working flawlessly in DOS including some more difficult titles like the Ultima series games, but I can't get Operation Neptune to work. Until yesterday, I couldn't even get past the first frame (the game would freeze). I used the "ON -si" switch to force sound to the PC speaker and it launched, ran through the intro and past the title screen, but then I reached a point where you have to hit "Enter" three times before the actual game loads (some paragraphs to read). When I reach the last "Enter", it freezes. It also freezes if I press "ESC" at any time during the intro (probably the same issue as it goes to skip those screen and probably locks up at the same point). I don't understand why the Soundblaster won't work. I have tried the "-sb" and "-gv" switches with no success. I use "slowdown.com" to eat up CPU. Any ideas? I am deperate! :cheesy: