Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Mephansteras]

Hey,

I downloaded a copy of Darklands, since I don't have my old disks of it anymore. However, I can't seem to get it to run. It just starts up a dos window and then exits. If I run it with VDMS or from a dos prompt it tells me that it is 'Unable to find EMS memory'. I did try fiddling with the memory settings under the exe's properties, but that didn't seem to help any.

Anyone got any ideas? I'd like to play this game again, but it doesn't seem to want to cooperate.

[Little]

Dosbox. I have Darklands, and it works fine in Dosbox.

http://www.dosbox.com/

I recommend moving Darklands to the C: drive, and renamng it DARK. Once you open Dosbox, type:

mount c c:\DARK
c:

and then type the name of whatever the .exe is. Hope that helps! 

[Soulwynd]

Yep, Mine runs with dosbox just fine.

[Vucar Fikodastesh]

There are some awesome flash tools at the Darklands fan site here[url].

[Il Palazzo]

mount c: c:\DARK
c:

and then type the name of whatever the .exe is. Hope that helps! 

To streamline things even further, add the above lines to the "dosbox.conf" file(use notepad) - scroll to the very bottom and type them after the [autoexec] tag. This way the game will start automaticaly every time you run dosbox. You can add other options like full screen mode etc. as well. All commands are listed in the same file.

[Electronic Phantom]

If you don't want to meddle with the details of DosBox yourself, get a frontend.  They have a list of them here.

Your life will be a lot easier using them.  Or so they say.  Myself, I have found that sometimes they are nice, but sometimes they are a royal pain in the posterior.

I, myself, use D-Fend Reloaded.  I haven't tried to use any of the others, so I can't comment on them.

-(e)EP

[Floirt]

You can also click on the darklands exe, and move it over dosbox's one, and tadaa, instant game without typing stuff. Also, press Ctrl-F12 multiple times in order to raise the number of CPU cycles used, or it will lag in combat.

[Mephansteras]

Cool. Thanks, everyone!