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[caffeine]

I'm a Linux user, so I'm pretty lost on Windows. Please pardon my ignorance...

Using DosBox 0.63 with D-Fend 2.0.62 front end. Attempting to play Alien Incident downloaded from Abandonia. When run with DosBox, I get:

Alien Incident v1.40 Copyright (c) 1996 Housemarque Games
DOS version 5.0
Available Base Memory: 519680 bytes
DOH! Note enough Base Memory.
You have to free 30320 more bytes of Base Memory
to run this game.

128 kb freed.

When I run "mem", it reports 637 kB of free conventional memory.

I'm pretty new at this. Any advice?

Thanks!
Caffeine!

[commanderkeen]

Very Unusual...
Dosbox usually tricks the program into using normal RAM.

Try Booting up your computer with a Dos bootup floppy and running it.
If that won't work,I don't know what will.

I Have no idea whats wrong,But even if I must install linux and find out myself I'll do my best to help.
(Don't worry,I think linux is cool so I don't mind having to install it if needed)

Anyway,Bootup in dos(Not command prompt,or the linux equivalent)

Tell me what happens then.

[Data]

try loadfix.
(inside dosbox that is)

on second thought it seems that you are using loadfix....
(with an amount of 128)
disable that.

[caffeine]

Very Unusual...
Dosbox usually tricks the program into using normal RAM.

Try Booting up your computer with a Dos bootup floppy and running it.
If that won't work,I don't know what will.

Unfortunately, all my hard drives are SATA drives, and I have no idea whether (real) DOS has drivers for the mobo SATA drive controller. I suspect not. I've tried to boot that machine into DOS for other unrelated puposes and found I couldn't access the hard drives.

However, the machine is a dual boot, and I can try booting into Linux and using DosBox and see if that gives me any different results. I'll try that right now.

OK. Here's what I got:

DOS version 5.0
Available Base memory: 652016 bytes
Base Memory OK.

Available expanded memory...... 15296 KB
LIM/EMS Version * * *.............. * *4.0
Total expanded memory pages .... 1024
Available expanded memory pages ... 956
Total handles .... 100
Active handles .... 0

Mouse driver found.
No CD-ROM drives found.

C:\>

So it seems like I got farther in Linux, but I'm still not all the way there. Is there a way of configuring a CD-ROM to be present?

It's funny seeing these terms. Most of my assembly experience was with the 6502 where we didn't have issues like "expanded" and "extended" memory. LOL.

[A. J. Raffles]

Erm, stupid question, but if you're that much more comfortable working with Linux, why don't you simply try running a Linux version of DOSBox?

[Data]

type intro in dosbox

secondly run dosbox without dfend under windows.(did you read my post about you having loadfix on with the way to high amount of 128 ?)