Running a DOS game?

[Toller]

I have an ancient DOS game I like, Masters of Orion.
I have it running on two WindowsXPHome desktops just fine.

I tried to load it on my new Toshiba laptop (also WindowsXPHome) and it says
it needs 1024k of expanded memory.
I have the properties set for expanded memory. In fact I have the
properties set exactly the same as the desktops. I looked in config.nt and
autoexec.nt and they are the same also.

Any clue as to why I might be having problems?

I know, upgrade to a new game. Well, MOO is idiotically simple, and I
haven't found a newer game that I could actually understand.

 

[Phil Weldon]

'Toller' wrote, in part:
| I have an ancient DOS game I like, Masters of Orion.
| I have it running on two WindowsXPHome desktops just fine.
|
| I tried to load it on my new Toshiba laptop (also WindowsXPHome) and it
says
| it needs 1024k of expanded memory.

I have no help to offer, but the Windows version of MOO is truly terrible.

Phil Weldon

|I have an ancient DOS game I like, Masters of Orion.
| I have it running on two WindowsXPHome desktops just fine.
|
| I tried to load it on my new Toshiba laptop (also WindowsXPHome) and it
says
| it needs 1024k of expanded memory.
| I have the properties set for expanded memory. In fact I have the
| properties set exactly the same as the desktops. I looked in config.nt
and
| autoexec.nt and they are the same also.
|
| Any clue as to why I might be having problems?
|
| I know, upgrade to a new game. Well, MOO is idiotically simple, and I
| haven't found a newer game that I could actually understand.
|
|

 

[GreenieLeBrun]

I have an ancient DOS game I like, Masters of Orion.
I have it running on two WindowsXPHome desktops just fine.

I tried to load it on my new Toshiba laptop (also WindowsXPHome) and it says
it needs 1024k of expanded memory.
I have the properties set for expanded memory. In fact I have the
properties set exactly the same as the desktops. I looked in config.nt and
autoexec.nt and they are the same also.

Any clue as to why I might be having problems?

I know, upgrade to a new game. Well, MOO is idiotically simple, and I
haven't found a newer game that I could actually understand.

Take a look at DosBox ( http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ )

 

[Chuck]

It may be because the Toshiba uses system ram as if it was video card ram.
(Common laptop problem)

 

[ronald.phillips]

Alot of hardware nowadays eats up the memory ranges that expanded
memory uses. The only solution is to disable the hardware causing the
problem (usually it's USB/NIC/Raid controllers) so that's hardly an
ideal solution or to use DosBox.

MOM is pretty old so you should have no problem running it in DosBox on
even an old computer, assuming you read the DosBox documentation.

 

[Toller]

Yes, it says it uses dynamically allocates 64 to 128kb of ram for video.
Any work around on this?