insufficient memory for stsorbit plus

insufficient memory for stsorbit plus

[Bernard Fay]

Hello,

I would like to run STSOrbit Plus (http://www.dransom.com/stsplus.html) 
under dosemu 1.0.2-bin.  
STSOrbit plus need 500KB to run.  The command mem from freedos says it 
has 623KB free of conventional memory.
STSOrbit crashes saying "Insufficent RAM to run this version of 
STSOrbit."  :-(

Do someone has an idea how to fix this, if it is fixable?

Thanks,

Bern

Re: insufficient memory for stsorbit plus

[Reinhard Karcher]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:50:45PM -0500, Bernard Fay wrote
> I would like to run STSOrbit Plus (http://www.dransom.com/stsplus.html) 
> under dosemu 1.0.2-bin.  
> STSOrbit plus need 500KB to run.  The command mem from freedos says it 
> has 623KB free of conventional memory.
> STSOrbit crashes saying "Insufficent RAM to run this version of 
> STSOrbit."  :-(

Less may be more! There are programs, that don't start in the first 64K
memory. Just start some command.com's, until less than 576K (=640-64)
memory is left. Your program may work now.

Reinhard

Re: insufficient memory for stsorbit plus

[Jan Willem Stumpel]

Bernard Fay wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to run STSOrbit Plus
> (http://www.dransom.com/stsplus.html) under dosemu 1.0.2-bin.

An impressive program. I tried it also with freedos and 1.0.2.1
and it works fine; in my case also, mem reports 623k free. It also
works with MS-DOS 6.00, and with 1.1.4.0. So at least the program
itself is not at fault.

Regards, Jan

Re: insufficient memory for stsorbit plus

[Bernard Fay]

I gave it a try but that didn't make it work.  I took the memory down to 
574K.
Other ideas?

Thank you very much


Reinhard Karcher wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:50:45PM -0500, Bernard Fay wrote
>  
>
>>I would like to run STSOrbit Plus (http://www.dransom.com/stsplus.html) 
>>under dosemu 1.0.2-bin.  
>>STSOrbit plus need 500KB to run.  The command mem from freedos says it 
>>has 623KB free of conventional memory.
>>STSOrbit crashes saying "Insufficent RAM to run this version of 
>>STSOrbit."  :-(
>>    
>>
>
>Less may be more! There are programs, that don't start in the first 64K
>memory. Just start some command.com's, until less than 576K (=640-64)
>memory is left. Your program may work now.
>
>Reinhard
>
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Re: insufficient memory for stsorbit plus

[Bernard Fay]

Knowing it works for someone is a very good news!

Now what is wrong with my setup?  Could you send me your autoexec.bat
and config.sys files?  I'll compare them with my setup and see if
something is wrong.  Maybe the dosemu.conf, dosemurc and global.conf
might be useful as well if you don't mind?

Thank you for your help

Bernard


Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:

 >Bernard Fay wrote:
 >
 >
 >>Hello,
 >>
 >>I would like to run STSOrbit Plus
 >>(http://www.dransom.com/stsplus.html) under dosemu 1.0.2-bin.
 >>
 >>
 >
 >An impressive program. I tried it also with freedos and 1.0.2.1
 >and it works fine; in my case also, mem reports 623k free. It also
 >works with MS-DOS 6.00, and with 1.1.4.0. So at least the program
 >itself is not at fault.
 >
 >Regards, Jan
 >
 >-
 >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in
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Re: insufficient memory for stsorbit plus

[Bart Oldeman]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Bernard Fay wrote:

> I would like to run STSOrbit Plus (http://www.dransom.com/stsplus.html)
> under dosemu 1.0.2-bin.

this program works for me.

Try at least dosemu-1.0.2.1-bin (unless you use the SuSE dosemu).
If that doesn't work then make sure you have an up-to-date dosemu-freedos
tarball (dosemu-freedos-b8p-bin.tgz)
If that still doesn't work then try dosemu-1.1.4.

Bart