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Originally posted by wendymaree@Sep 3 2004, 08:21 AM
I've never used XP, so I don't know how it's set up to run, but with windows 98 you need some kind of emm386.exe thing happening in the config sys.* I think this allows for expanded memory...?* This is how my config sys is optimised for dos games:

rem DOS=SINGLE
Device=c:\windows\himem.sys
Device=c:\windows\emm386.exe RAM
DOS=HIGH,UMB
devicehigh=C:\BTCCDROM.SYS /D:OEMCD001
DEVICE=D:\MOUSE\MOUSE.EXE*

Anyhow, someone else from Abandonia who's more technically minded will be able to be put you on the right track

Btw, some games need the word 'noems' after 'emm386.exe' to run

Actually, you don't need that DEVICE=EMM386.EXE line for Windows 98, it will load itself with Windows automatically. In fact, you even cannot disable Emm386 to be loaded in Windows 98 altogether, which causes problems to some games that require Emm398-memory being disabled.

Help!When i try 2 open the game,it shows "No Expanded Memory was found.At least 800kof LIM spec 3.0 Expanded Memory mudt b avaible to run Bloodnet."I have been able 2 open most games on abandonia!I'm on a P4 Hp Pavilion,with 512 DDR SRAM&80 GB hard drive.Pls Help!

Did you run the game in DosBox? It's best played in there, too. And you can download it from this main site. All you have to do, is editing the Dosbox.conf file.
Search there for a location that looks like this:
"[dos]
# xms -- Enable XMS support.
# ems -- Enable EMS support.

xms=true
ems=true"
If the line is "ems=false", simply set it to "true".

[wendymaree]

<<In fact, you even cannot disable Emm386 to be loaded in Windows 98 altogether, which causes problems to some games that require Emm398-memory being disabled.>>

I thought that the word 'noems' after emm386.exe was the disabling command.

Well, it actually disables the EMS-memory, but the Emm386-driver is still installed, so this doesn't help somehow (at least by my Windows 98 and the old games)...

[Guybrush]

Tried it in DOSBox, but it was kind of laggy. Runs smooth as silk in XP though.

[Chef Boyardee]

Originally posted by Guybrush@Sep 3 2004, 04:45 PM
Tried it in DOSBox, but it was kind of laggy. Runs smooth as silk in XP though.

Yeah, I've noticed that about a lot of games. I think Dosbox is only good for the SUPER old games, but not for the relatively newer ones.

[Kon-Tiki]

Anybody know where to get a 16Mb or 32Mb memory chip and an Azrael?

[Mad-E-Fact]

Does this game have speech? I remember reading back then that they had to cut out speech from the AGA Amiga version... but maybe I mix this up with Dreamweb.

Gotta play this one again, I got stuck on it and never finished it... great game with a cool story!

[Kon-Tiki]

Originally posted by Mad-E-Fact@Oct 26 2004, 07:05 PM
Gotta play this one again, I got stuck on it and never finished it... great game with a cool story!

Same here. That's why a friend of mine and me're looking how to crack savegames from that game. Would've done it on my own, but this one's too hard for that. Almost a third of the savegame's suspicious and has the checkup somewhere, but we can't pinpoint it yet, and it's too much to just do it the trial and error way. If we get this done, then there shouldn't be much worrying 'bout humanity-loss anymore :w00t: That'll take the only bad part out of the game (as that was mighty frustrating)

[Mad-E-Fact]

IIRC the loss of humanity only occurs when you suck people dry of blood, but some time into the game you find bottles with blood to use instead, and lateron you find some nano-tech that frees you of the bloodthirst completely, so you actually have to kill only 1 or 2 people at the start for blood.

[Kon-Tiki]

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Oops...
Humanity: 27% :whistle: