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FrenkelS / Doom8088

Doom for 16-bit DOS computers
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"Can't open VIEWANGX.LMP" under DOS 3.31 on FAT16 hard drive #13

Closed ninakali closed 10 months ago

ninakali commented 10 months ago

Hi! I'm trying to run Doom8088 in pcem with emulated 286+287 running AMI BIOS, MS-DOS 3.31 and FAT16 hard drive (roughly similar to an actual machine I have), and it refuses to start, complaining that it can't open the file "VIEWANGX.LMP" after allocating 317984 bytes of RAM. The file is present on the disk, of course.

FrenkelS commented 10 months ago

I had the same problem, but it went away when I put FILES=30 in my config.sys. Maybe a value smaller than 30 also works.

ninakali commented 10 months ago

Oh, that makes sense! I booted up my 286, and... I tried DOS 5 and it didn't work, and then I tried FreeDOS, and it worked. Let me try FILES=30, and if that will help, I suggest add a readme.

ninakali commented 10 months ago

I added FILES=30 to config.sys, and now it boots and kind of works. I imagine there's lots of room for optimisation :) But it does look very pretty on a VGA card.

FrenkelS commented 10 months ago

I've added it to README.md.