Hi! a question of raine for DOS

[Tux]

76 Mb for wakuwak7 (+ the emulator). Theoretically there is a message when you run out of memory, but sometimes the dos prefers to just crash like that, tss.... !

Thanks for the test anyway, it's enough to say the normal version should work in most reasonable setups, with the seal version as a last resort in case of problem.

And if both don't, well give up the dos !

Actually you can have any amount of ram in dpmi in dos, but it becomes a little special to configure if it's more than 256 Mb of ram. It's probably limited to 4 Gb for the 32 bits limit, but you'll never need that much. I have tested with 512 Mb using PCem, and it works !

[Robert]

This machine only has 2 memory slots, so I added a 128MB simm, which the bios recognised (total of 192MB).

But trying to run wakuwak7 still blew up halfway through loading (file 000-lo.lo)

First attempt caused the computer to reboot, 2nd attempt did the same as earlier (screen goes weird and computer froze).

Seriously though, I doubt I'll ever use the DOS version for anything apart from doing tests for you.

I'll be here for another 2-3 days, so let me know if you want any other tests done.

[Tux]

18 minutes ago, Robert said:

This machine only has 2 memory slots, so I added a 128MB simm, which the bios recognised (total of 192MB).

But trying to run wakuwak7 still blew up halfway through loading (file 000-lo.lo)

First attempt caused the computer to reboot, 2nd attempt did the same as earlier (screen goes weird and computer froze).

Seriously though, I doubt I'll ever use the DOS version for anything apart from doing tests for you.

You might have a hardware problem then, I just tested with 128 Mb and 192 Mb on pcem (virtual pentium2-300 gigabyte motherboard), and the game runs fine in both configurations (slight cracking of sound during neogeo intro though, sound sync is a lot worse in dos than in windows or linux, and it's even worse if using seal).

Yeah you need a fast cpu to handle that much ram otherwise it becomes a real pain.
What dos lacked : hardware accelerated drivers, maybe it could have been done but microsoft preferred to kill it. It's better to leave it dead now, unless being obliged to use it, there are much better alternatives now...

But thanks again for the tests !