Re: So... Arena and Daggerfall

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 21:38:33 -0400, "Captain Heyrab"
<Captain_underscore_Heyrab@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:


>That was a refre****ng discussion of IRQ settings, there always were 
>conflicts over those...
>
>Nothing glares out at me except that the Arena boot loads in upper memory

>whereas Daggerfall does not.
>
>I'm wondering if this line should me remmed out. I don't remember exactly

>but it could have been for older DOS versions. Try this and see what 
>happens:
>REM DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM 2800 i=b000-b7ff

I need that line for Arena to start at all.  One of these days I may
get brave and reinstall my soundcard software using some suggestions
from the manual.  I hesitate to do it, because it works fine now for
everything but Arena.

>It is sometimes neccessary to play around to find a good memory
combination. 
>The goal is to load as much in upper memory as possible without causing 
>problems.  This is where the mem command is useful. It tells you what
loaded 
>where and how much room it uses.
>
>DEVICEHIGH can be replaced with DEVICE to load a particular driver in
lower 
>memory. Simply remove the LH from the front of an autoexec command to run
in 
>lower memory. There is only so much room and it is first come first
served.
>
>Some motherboards also used upper memory and had to be told not too, but 
>again I'm foggy on this after so many years.

I checked and normally nothing at all is running in upper memory.

>Good luck, I can't really play Daggerfall on my XP system. I've booted it
up 
>in DOSBOX but it isn't like the real thing. Certain moves don't work and
if 
>I can't get past the skeleton on the stairs there isn't much point. The 
>sound was a big part of the fun.
>
I am getting used to playing Arena without sound.  It is a fun game
and I am enjoying it.  I do have a question.  Do the constant effect
items wear out like they do in Daggerfall?  I have looked through the
manual and I can't find any mention of whether they do or not.
--
Nyctolops