Problems with memory!

[Cilpot]

I used to play colonize a lot on my old 486 66mhz computer a while ago..

Then suddenly I started to miss it a lot!

I got a copy of the game, and was echstatic !!!!

However: I couldent play it because I had insufficcient memory!!

Please help me!! I know that I have to edit the autoexec.bat, but I havent done that in years!!

What do I do??

 

[CoolLizy]

Are you playing it from within Windows, or do you exit to DOS? Also, what version of Win are you running?

 

[Cilpot]

I have a pc with windows 95 ... rather old one, pentium 2..

Ive tried to start it in both dos and windows...

 

[CoolLizy]

Hmm... Try this: Put a short-cut to the MS-DOS prompt on your desktop. Right click on it, then select propeties and click on the memory tab. Set everything to it's highest. That should work, but I can't garuntee it.

 

[Gramphos]

Can you run "mem /c > capture.txt" and post the file?

 

[Cilpot]

Thanks for the responses, but it still doesnt work....

Think Ill just accept the fact that I will never colonize america again

 

[CoolLizy]

Can you do what Gram suggested real fast?

 

[Gramphos]

Maybe I should explain myself a little better.

If you just start the MS-DOS prompt and write

mem /c > c:\capture.txt

that willl create a file c:\capture.txt that tells what apps that use the memory. If you post it here someone might be able to help you.

 

[gatomarado]

Try starting your PC in step (option 4)
yes to all .sys (first option) no to bootlog.txt yes to number 3 (something about .sys or himem), yes to mem386.*, no to CD-drive, sound, etc...
no to autoexec.bat and no windows .
I do this with my dos version and it works ("no" to autoexec.bat won't let you have memory wasted in things you won't use).
If it doesn't work do a memaker in DOS. and try it again.
If you didn't understand i've said (i wasn't very clear) do this with someone that knows what is doing.

 

[gatomarado]

Also when in in dos, make sure to enable your mouse (ussually in c:\mouse\mouse.exe) or something like this

 

[spycatcher34]

I dout the guy ever got it to work... But in case anyone wants to know I was in the same situation and all I did was install it change the properties to make it to where when I clicked on the short cut it went straight to DOS... when I left the prog it just restarted and went back to windows...

 

[GenghisK]

If you still have QEMM or even memmaker, that should be fine.