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X-Wing Collector's Edition

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 6:34 pm
by Guest
I'm having a lot of trouble getting X-Wing working under VDMSound. It consistently gives me the same error.

"Not enough memory!

Press any key to exit"

I have the graphic launchpad addon, and tried giving the game more EMS and XMS, but to no avail.


Note: I CAN make it run under DOSBox, but performance is not quite optimal.

Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:34 am
by Guest
Try it with NO SOUND

Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:59 am
by dosraider

Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:07 pm
by Guest
I did try no sound, did nothing.

Thanks for the link dosraider, but I can get it working in DOSBox, as I said earlier.

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:35 am
by The_Sinister_Mastermind
Which game in the series are you having trouble with?

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:56 pm
by Guest
The X-Wing Collector's Edition. The complete collection on CD-ROM.
The pure DOS version, not the 9x edition or the floppy one. TM & C 1993, 1995.

Box stuff:

The complete
X-WING
Collection
On CD-ROM



Enhanced CD-ROM version includes:
- Six brand -new missions
- Improved 3D graphics
- Voice and upgraded sound

Plus two Tour Of Duty extensions:
- Imperial PursuitTM and B-WingTM

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:17 pm
by dosraider
I dare still advise you to run it through dosbox, I have also that version and the X-Wing/TIE-Fighter box.
They all run perfect through dosbox.
Only minus for X-Wing: leave the music out.
TIE works fine with SFX and music ( luckily, lovely music in TIE ).

If they don't run fluid in dosbox on your system, check or your dosbox settings, or your PC is not fast enough.

If you think your PC is fast enough, kill everything running on the background, i mean EVERYTHING that isn't needed. Disable active desktop, all windows jinglebells, run dosbox on a clean XP system.

Dosbox is highly dependent on free CPU time to run demanding games smoothly.

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 7:42 pm
by Guest
Well, it can get reasonably fluid in DOSBox if I close everything unnecesarry.
But VDMSound can usually get things optimal. Is there simply no way to get working under VDMSound? However, just now, DOSBox doesn't seem to realise the cd is there, and it did earlier, and yes, MSCDEX is installed. However, I got X-Wing and TIE-Fighter working in a dual-boot DOS. Anyone know of where I can get USB support and a ancient soundcard?

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:21 pm
by Guest
bump.

Is this okay to do this?

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 4:12 pm
by Tompa
Not tested the usb-support myself, but I created a bootcd from "barts boot cd" which claims to have usb support.
I can't seem to find any info on that on his webpage though, but the config.sys gives you a choice of "USBHD" - not sure if that helps if you want a joystick though.
It also features firewire support - also not tested myself.

Worth a shot perhaps. Be careful with bootcd's though. Not had a problem myself, but there are many possibilities to screw your system up - or so I have been told.

An old soundcard should not be hard to find on ebay? Might be wrong.