From: jpang@iris.bio.uts.edu.au (Jason Pang)
Subject: Re: TECH:  help needed with i*glasses!
Date: 18 Sep 1995 07:15:11 GMT
Organization: School of Computing Sciences, UTS


From: jpang@iris.bio.uts.edu.au (Jason Pang)

kolasing@STRICOM.ARMY.MIL wrote:

:    Unfortunately I am having just a few teensy problems,
:    most - but not all - of which seem to be centered around
:    memory allocation.  Before I get into that whole
:    discussion, though, does anybody know where I can get a
:    copy of Magic Carpet?  Nobody I talk to seems to have

Go to Egghead or Babbages or any games stores, they should have them or 
at least be able to get them.

:    First off, I am running a Compaq Pentium with 725 MB hard
:    drive and 8 MB RAM

That is plenty for these games.

:    I tried out all of the software which came with
:    i*glasses! and seem to have several assorted "problems":
...deletion

:    I'm still getting the memory errors.  I can send interested
:    persons my CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files from the
:    boot disk if such information is necessary.  (I didn't
:    actually delete any lines, just REM'd them so you can see
:    how the system was originally set up before I got my
:    grubby hands on it.)  I've run the MEM command both with
:    the boot disk and regular windows configurations and can
:    send the information it provides as well.

Usually above 
550K does the trick. You MUST have EMM386 loaded as well as HIMEM.SYS. 
Just ask a local techie how to use them, otherwise email me.

:    *DESCENT*
:    Works fine and is pretty darn cool!  When I was playing
:    once, however, I noticed that the sound in one ear cut
:    out every once and a while but came back when I started a
:    new game.  I am assuming that such is the temperamental
:    nature of new technology and am not real concerned with
:    this.

Possibly your sound card. Try a different IRQ or base address setting.

BTW, what is Ascent?

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