[rec.games.moria] PC Moria under DOS 3.3?

creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps) (02/16/88)

   Has anyone gotten PC Moria (1.83) to run on a system with DOS 3.3?
I got the executable by ftp from somewhere, and it worked fine with
DOS 3.2, but now when I try it on 3.3, it doesn't do anything except
wait for a couple of seconds, then exit. No error message is given,
it just returns to DOS without doing anything.
   Then I tried to compile the source I got from the same place, and
it's missing some routines (random, srandom, etc).
   (Sorry, but I can't mail the source to anyone. It would take 3 hours
or longer to upload it.)

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matt@inuxf.UUCP (Matt Verner) (02/18/88)

> 
>    Has anyone gotten PC Moria (1.83) to run on a system with DOS 3.3?
> I got the executable by ftp from somewhere, and it worked fine with
> DOS 3.2, but now when I try it on 3.3, it doesn't do anything except
> wait for a couple of seconds, then exit. No error message is given,
> it just returns to DOS without doing anything.

Yes I have it running on any number of 3.2 machines and on an IBM PS/2
Model 80 running 3.3.  I had the problem you described on _both_ 3.2 and
3.3.  It turned out to be a combination of not enough available memory
(Too many device drivers and TSR's in my case) and setting the environ-
ment space to a non-default value (the /E=nnnn parameter in config.sys
in the SHELL= line).  If you free up all memory and leave off the /E
parameter in the config.sys I bet it will solve your problem.

Good Luck!

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