Star Trek A Final Unity

[Guest]

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Greetings all
I'm trying to load Star Trek A Final Unity onto my XP machine and it says
that my file/buffer needs to be 20/20, while I have 50/00. It says to
change the values in sys.config but I can't find anything there. When I
found a mention of buffer in DOS it says it's value is 50. I'm confused.
Can anyone help me to change the values without wrecking my machine?
Many thanks
paduer
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Stop the world, I get travel sick...

 

[Jerry]

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What version of Windows? XP and ME don't have a config.sys
If you're running 98 or SE then you can modify config.sys. A DOS manual
will tell you how.

"paduer" <paduer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:66F7EF76-ABA1-42EC-8A33-093B666D5CA5@microsoft.com...
> Greetings all
> I'm trying to load Star Trek A Final Unity onto my XP machine and it says
> that my file/buffer needs to be 20/20, while I have 50/00. It says to
> change the values in sys.config but I can't find anything there. When I
> found a mention of buffer in DOS it says it's value is 50. I'm confused.
> Can anyone help me to change the values without wrecking my machine?
> Many thanks
> paduer
> --
> Stop the world, I get travel sick...

 

[Guest]

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I have Windows XP home version. Can I get away with running compatability
mode, do you think?

"Jerry" wrote:

> What version of Windows? XP and ME don't have a config.sys
> If you're running 98 or SE then you can modify config.sys. A DOS manual
> will tell you how.
>
> "paduer" <paduer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:66F7EF76-ABA1-42EC-8A33-093B666D5CA5@microsoft.com...
> > Greetings all
> > I'm trying to load Star Trek A Final Unity onto my XP machine and it says
> > that my file/buffer needs to be 20/20, while I have 50/00. It says to
> > change the values in sys.config but I can't find anything there. When I
> > found a mention of buffer in DOS it says it's value is 50. I'm confused.
> > Can anyone help me to change the values without wrecking my machine?
> > Many thanks
> > paduer
> > --
> > Stop the world, I get travel sick...
>
>
>

 

[Guest]

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"paduer" <paduer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:39A0EB63-EC18-45E1-9818-A3A87761E10B@microsoft.com...
|I have Windows XP home version. Can I get away with running compatability
| mode, do you think?
|
| "Jerry" wrote:
|
| > What version of Windows? XP and ME don't have a config.sys
| > If you're running 98 or SE then you can modify config.sys. A DOS manual
| > will tell you how.
| >
| > "paduer" <paduer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
| > news:66F7EF76-ABA1-42EC-8A33-093B666D5CA5@microsoft.com...
| > > Greetings all
| > > I'm trying to load Star Trek A Final Unity onto my XP machine and it says
| > > that my file/buffer needs to be 20/20, while I have 50/00. It says to
| > > change the values in sys.config but I can't find anything there. When I
| > > found a mention of buffer in DOS it says it's value is 50. I'm confused.
| > > Can anyone help me to change the values without wrecking my machine?
| > > Many thanks
| > > paduer
| > > --
| > > Stop the world, I get travel sick...
| >
| >
| >

DOS based games in XP Home Edition you say? ;-)

When a game is a DOS game, it could work using compatibility mode:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=292533 or by using the Multiboot
bootdisk from: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~lpcd/downloads.html
and always check at fileplanet.com to see if there's a patch available,
or search at: http://www.avault.com/pcrl/patches_list.asp?letter=a

With DOSBOX you can emulate a DOS computer on your XP desktop:
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/information.php Or try MS Virtual PC:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/virtualpc/downloads/trial.asp
which allows you to install DOS or to run any operating system inside XP.

If you prefer to explore other advanced methods, here are two excellent
tutorials I've found on the subject: http://www.dosgames.com/faq.php and http://home.earthlink.net/~angeldancer27/XpGameList.htm For
sound
issues use: http://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~vromas/vdmsound Good Luck!

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