Lactose_Intolerant

Alright, I got my dos problems worked out now I'm working on my sound problems. I can get soundfx to work fine, but it has the time limit. So I tried VDMSound. The problem with vdmsound is that it doesn't install right. It never says there is an error when I install though. I never get the "run with vdmsound" in the right click menu. I'm logged in as the admin and have the file extensions turned on. When I try to manually load it by using Dosdrv it get this error: Unable to instantiate emulation moduel 'VDMServicesProvider'. 0x800401f3 - Invalid class string (C:\PROGR~1\VDMSound\VDMS.INI:66) I'm guessing there's a problem in VDMS.INI at line 66 which is: CLSID = VDDLoader.VDMServices Any help would be appreciated.

I recently pulled out my old games collection and wanted to play them on my pc. Anyways, I noticed they didn't have sound in dos when I played them in dos. So I downloaded soundfx and vdmsound. For some reason, vdmsound never gave me the option when you right click on the file to use vdmsound. Installed both sound emus under the admins account so that should not of been a problem. Now for the problem, I'm guessing somewhere I used a 16bit program cause I got the VirtualDeviceDrivers VDD error in dos. Well I fixed that by going to the microsoft site. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q254914/ Now the dos window closes right away (under a second) once I load a dos program. so command.exe doesn't load correctly. cmd.exe loads fine though. Also command.com, config.nt, and autoexec.nt are in my system 32 folder if that somehow is related. [Edited by Lactose_Intolerant on 2005-02-20 15:29:33]

looks like i fixed it by taking out the last line in config.nt

autoexec.net: @echo off REM AUTOEXEC.BAT is not used to initialize the MS-DOS environment. REM AUTOEXEC.NT is used to initialize the MS-DOS environment unless a REM different startup file is specified in an application's PIF. REM Install CD ROM extensions lh %SystemRoot%\system32\mscdexnt.exe REM Install network redirector (load before dosx.exe) lh %SystemRoot%\system32\redir REM Install DPMI support lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx config.nt: REM Windows MS-DOS Startup File REM REM CONFIG.SYS vs CONFIG.NT REM CONFIG.SYS is not used to initialize the MS-DOS environment. REM CONFIG.NT is used to initialize the MS-DOS environment unless a REM different startup file is specified in an application's PIF. REM REM ECHOCONFIG REM By default, no information is displayed when the MS-DOS environment REM is initialized. To display CONFIG.NT/AUTOEXEC.NT information, add REM the command echoconfig to CONFIG.NT or other startup file. REM REM NTCMDPROMPT REM When you return to the command prompt from a TSR or while running an REM MS-DOS-based application, Windows runs COMMAND.COM. This allows the REM TSR to remain active. To run CMD.EXE, the Windows command prompt, REM rather than COMMAND.COM, add the command ntcmdprompt to CONFIG.NT or REM other startup file. REM REM DOSONLY REM By default, you can start any type of application when running REM COMMAND.COM. If you start an application other than an MS-DOS-based REM application, any running TSR may be disrupted. To ensure that only REM MS-DOS-based applications can be started, add the command dosonly to REM CONFIG.NT or other startup file. REM REM EMM REM You can use EMM command line to configure EMM(Expanded Memory Manager). REM The syntax is: REM REM EMM = [A=AltRegSets] [b=BaseSegment] [RAM] REM REM AltRegSets REM specifies the total Alternative Mapping Register Sets you REM want the system to support. 1 <= AltRegSets <= 255. The REM default value is 8. REM BaseSegment REM specifies the starting segment address in the Dos conventional REM memory you want the system to allocate for EMM page frames. REM The value must be given in Hexdecimal. REM 0x1000 <= BaseSegment <= 0x4000. The value is rounded down to REM 16KB boundary. The default value is 0x4000 REM RAM REM specifies that the system should only allocate 64Kb address REM space from the Upper Memory Block(UMB) area for EMM page frames REM and leave the rests(if available) to be used by DOS to support REM loadhigh and devicehigh commands. The system, by default, would REM allocate all possible and available UMB for page frames. REM REM The EMM size is determined by pif file(either the one associated REM with your application or _default.pif). If the size from PIF file REM is zero, EMM will be disabled and the EMM line will be ignored. REM dos=high, umb device=%SystemRoot%\system32\himem.sys files=40 device=C:\PROGRA~1\ALWILS~1\Avast4\aswmonds.sys

ntvdm.exe runs and lasts for like 1 second and closes. No other programs start up.

Well, I don't care about the sound right now. I can get that to work. Its the dos programs. I can't run any dos programs right now. Which kind of makes it hard to you know, install stuff at times.