Re: Help needed on Goblins 2 - DOS game

"mec-devil" <delusions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Mary typed:
>
> Hey MaryJ, :)
>
> > This message didn't seem to go through last night.
>
> Yes it did ;), I can see it under the thread about "Do you still
> play DOS games" - and there was a reply from "djin" suggesting
> you could try VDMsound and/or a slowdown program.

I found my original message. I should probably have created a new
message instead of using the existing thread, since I wanted to try to
get specific information about an adventure game.
I don't see any reply from djin or anyone else in that thread though. I
will check google groups to see if I can see it there. I don't know how
VDMsound is, but for slowdown, I could try moslo. It seems more like I
don't have enough memory for the game keeps saying I need 580K memory
but only have 560k or something like that. How would I get more memory?
maybe using a boot disk? I am not sure that would help though.

> > I downloaded Dosbox 63 (I think thats the version
> > I got) but that hung my computer, if I did it right.
> > I have AMD CPU 3200, Sblive which has the line
> > installed in autoexec for IRQ 7, etc. Does anybody
> > have any ideas.?
>
> As for DOSbox, some games do not recognize the sound card
> unless the CPU cycles are set to 3000 or lower (I've just learnt
> this myself - I'm still learning the art of DOSboxing ;>) So you
> could try installing /re-installing /running the game at the slow
> speed of 3000 cycles.

I wouldn't know anything about cycles.
I just tried DOS box again and mounted the C drive as it describes, but
when I type go.bat or go.exe, (I tried both), the DOS box screen hangs
and thats as far as I get.

> Which version of the game is it? According to the DOSbox website,
> the game is "supported", but there are four different entires for
> "Gobliins 2" (?) - one for CD, one for CD v2.01, one for FDD (etc)
> Also you could try mounting the CD drive with the "-ioctl" option,
> as someone there recommended.

Its a CD , v 2.01. What is the command for "ioctl" when you are in DOS
box?
Maybe I should check Dosbox website to see if I can figure anything out.

> I prefer using a frontend (D-Fend v2) to handle DOSbox options,
> makes it much easier to edit and change config files (I'm too lazy
> to type at the Z: prompt ;>)

I have never used D-Fend . There are so many utilities out for fixing
this and that, it gets very confusing. Thanks. MacDevil. Weren't you
Maddie at one time?

Mary

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