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From: Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@icequake.net>
To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cpu emulation problem
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:10:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030425011023.GB11154@dbz.icequake.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030424115105.74d33d0b.soltes@intrak.sk>

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 11:51:05AM +0200, ?ubo¨ ¦oltés wrote:
> 	Hi everyone
> 
> 	I'm new to dosemu, I just installed it for the single purpose
> 	to play a game named Fragile Allegiance.
> 
> 	I've installed the 1.0.2 bindist with freedos bindist.
> 
> 	The problem is when I start the installer of the game I get
> 	the following nice error:
> 
> 	Fragile needs to take use of the 32 bit capabilities of a 486DX
> 	or above processor to run. The processor in your PC is only
> 	capable of 16 but operations.
> 
> 	Anyone has any idea how to fix it? I've tried setting $_cpu to
> 	386,486,586 with no result.

It sounds an awful lot like the game wants to use VCPI or unreal-mode
memory, neither of which will work under dosemu.  Does it use DOS4GW or
any other DPMI dos extender?  If so, then the problem is somewhere else.

-- 
Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-25  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-24  9:51 cpu emulation problem Ľuboš Šoltés
2003-04-25  1:10 ` Ryan Underwood [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-25 11:40 Stas Sergeev

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