matt21bs

Thanks dosfreak for the thread. It sounds like I've got to do some serious digging and disabling for my game to work. I think I'm just gonna stick to the Dosbox (which you seem to idolize ) I made it easy on myself and wrote up a quick batch file to execute the commands so I don't have to do any cmd.exe prompt changes...I'm just a double click away, but I'm sure any user on this forum knows about that. Just thought I would throw it there to let anyone who was like me about 5 days ago know that you can do that. (I've learned almost everything that I know from trying to get this program to work. Everything I know about NTVDM, DOS, Win xp, and computers too) but that's just a little sid note. Anyways, thanks for the help, and I'll be back soon I promise, if not to post another problem, because I have many, than to offer what little advice I may...

Always start simple: Have you tried the win95 compatibility mode yet? Right click the app or the apps shortcut, and click the compatibility tab, and click "run this program in compatibility mode for:" and select which os you want: probably win95 since that is what it was designed for. let me know if this works, or if you need more help/already tried that

well, the thing about jon's site is this: there'e a somewhat critical typo. he says to "specify 1024 K of expanded memory (XMS)", but EXPANDED memory is EMS and EXTENDED memory is XMS, and the game calls for EMS. I know that the obvious solution is just to try them both, and I did that, but it still didn't work. So I don't know if my problem is just computer specific, or if I'm doing something wrong, but this game just will not play with NTVDM.

well, it prolly would help, but I don't have any of those things. NTFS partition and no spare hard drive. But I just don't understand why NTVDM is not running my program...there is no reason for it to not be working. http://www.jonsullivan.com/misc/moo_xp.htm This guy said he had to take these steps to get MOO to work, but I did exactly what he said and it was all to no avail: same error message (must have 1024 expanded memory)

I'm trying to run master of orion on windows xp, but it's always coming up with the same error: "must have 1024 expanded memory (ems)". I've tried chaning the properties of the apps pif, the _default pif, config.nt and autoexec.nt files (adding emm=ram to config and REMing out the lines of the autoexec that start programs that just take up the umb), but nothing seems to be working. I did get the program to run using dosbox, but half the time it locks up on me and doesn't work. I know that there must be some sort of solution. Would it maybe involve emm386? please help