I tried 64MB & 32MB. The game still sees 0K EMS. Mem/c also reports 0K
available via Int 15h which seems odd.
-L
On Saturday, September 15, 2012, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> 1GB sounds really big. I remember some games had troubles detecting memory
> above a certain amount, due to some kind of overflowing in their mem
> counters. I'd suggest trying to set a more classic amount of ram on your
> vbox machine... Like 64MB or so.
>
> Mateusz
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>
> Louis Santillan <[email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I'm having trouble running an old favorite DOS game that requires EMS
> >inside of VirtualBox (Sierra Front Page Sports Football Pro 95). The
> >game requires 576K Conventional RAM, and 2MB EMS. I've configured
> >VirtualBox to have 1GB and installed FPS FB Pro 95 to a 32GB FAT32
> >drive with FreeDOS 1.1. Booting into Option 2, mem/c reports
> >610K/13K/0K/1GB/32M of Conventional/Upper/Reserved/XMS/EMS free.
> >Running the command to start the game, FPS FB Pro 95 halts, reporting
> >that it found 610K Conventional and 0K EMS available. I've tried
> >various options on jemmex/jemm386, changes to fdconfig.sys, and
> >changes to VirtualBox but none seem to get FPS FB Pro 95 to recognize
> >the available EMS.
> >
> >Suggestions?
> >
> >-L
>
>
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