| Posted at 17:26 on September 19th, 2014 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member | I've made a boot disk for MS-DOS and when I try to run Zone 66, my Machine reboots Specs Am5x86 133MHz S3Trio64V2 Card 16MB RAM 1GB HD Sound Blaster AWE64 MS-DOS 6.22 |
| Posted at 08:26 on September 21st, 2014 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
 Moderator Deceased Gumby Posts: 1413 | Hmmm… faulty version of the game? Hardware conflict (your setup [very nice on btw.  ] seems rather advanced for that kind of game)? Does the disk work on other systems? Or at least in DosBox?----- [color=darkblue][i]The known is finite, the unknown infinite.[/i] - Thomas Henry Huxley[/color] |
| Posted at 08:56 on September 21st, 2014 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Student Gumby Posts: 33 | Quote: Sound Blaster AWE64 MS-DOS 6.22 Bad combination, especially when using a boot disk. The AWE64 is a Plug&Play card, but MS-DOS doesn't know about PnP. You should make sure that the "Creative Configuration Manager Software" is loaded, otherwise you may address the wrong IRQ and/or DMA channel (since the BLASTER variable doesn't match the hardware config), which causes the system to freeze or reboot. |
| Posted at 09:17 on September 21st, 2014 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
 Admin Reborn Gumby Posts: 11573 | I'm talking from experience with the AWE32 here, but assuming the AWE64 is similar, it also may use this very heavyweight General MIDI emulation software driver. That made my system quite unstable as well (and for regular Soundblaster mode, it wasn't necessary at all). ----- Now you see the violence inherent in the system! |
| Posted at 23:02 on October 13th, 2014 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member | I reinstalled a copy of Zone66 from a different source and kaboom, no more rebooting, the game runs fine now. The copy that keep on giving me reboots when I tried running it was from the Game Empire Shareware Disc I've gotten from a Dollar General back in 2002. |