freeing memory

[maghera]

anyone tell me how to free memory to play games,ive got a game and it says not enough memory to run 587588 bytes required. anyone help

[stiltman]

wow a game that actually takes more than 512mb just by itself? Geez, I'm glad I'm not a gamer

more than 512mb

BTW, what's the game?

[maghera]

its just an old game i found called alien breed,shit it does demand alot of memory doesnt it

[ViRaL1]

DOS based? It looks like you're only about 1/2MB short.

That's 587588 bytes, not Kilobytes.

[maghera]

is there anyway to free up a little memory to play this game,i used to play this on the segamega drive,dont no what its like on pc format

[maghera]

by the way what is the recommended amount of free memory a computer works on best

[Doramius]

depends on what and how many programs you got running. If I have a lot of heavy memory usage programs running, I can't even play Solitaire. But if everything is shutdown and nothing else is running, I can get a smooth game of quake or wolfenstein going and run as the LAN host. I only have 512mb

[stiltman]

So it is DOS based? or is this one of the newer versions?

[maghera]

i dont no what version it is mate sorry

[mastersmurfie]

Sounds like an old DOS game. I remember (way back in the day...) having to make a DOS "boot disk" to be able to play some older games under Windows 95 and Windows 98. Do a google search for "DOS games boot disk"...might be just what you need...

[maghera]

thanks everyone

[zzyzzx]

There are programs that you can run to free up memory. I currently don't use one so I can't remember the name but I remember the one I used working great.

[Doramius]

You can do what my younger brother did and buy a cheap older computer and run it only as a DOS computer. He has several computers, one running on DOS, another on WIN95, another on WIN98se, WIN2000, WINxp, Server 2003, and MACos. He also has a few more comps that that, but he has his set up this way so he can create and run different emulators and games. He recently transfered a DOS version of a game called Castles to WIN95 & 98se.

This is only an option, though it may not be the way you decide to go.

[DVD_Ripper]

Sounds like an old DOS game. I remember (way back in the day...) having to make a DOS "boot disk" to be able to play some older games under Windows 95 and Windows 98. Do a google search for "DOS games boot disk"...might be just what you need...

Time to dust off the DOS book to brush up on your config.sys and autoexec.bat statements. MSCDEX statements were always a blast... I bet a few of the newer drives don't even have DOS drivers... hope some of the generic ones work.

[Doramius]

I have on old 4X CD drive that connects via a floppy cable. Tried to get it working on my system, but my system keeps viewing it as an actual floppy drive and asks for the drivers. If I try and add the drivers, my computer doesn't want to recognize them. It's an old Sony. Tried selling it, but nobody wants it.

[DVD_Ripper]

I have on old 4X CD drive that connects via a floppy cable. Tried to get it working on my system, but my system keeps viewing it as an actual floppy drive and asks for the drivers. If I try and add the drivers, my computer doesn't want to recognize them. It's an old Sony. Tried selling it, but nobody wants it.

Hmmm... I've never seen a CD that connects via floppy (anyone else) ... some of the old creative drives I've owned connected to a proprietary controller with the same edge connector as a floppy connector... .Could you just be missing a controller card.

[Doramius]

I have on old 4X CD drive that connects via a floppy cable. Tried to get it working on my system, but my system keeps viewing it as an actual floppy drive and asks for the drivers. If I try and add the drivers, my computer doesn't want to recognize them. It's an old Sony. Tried selling it, but nobody wants it.

Hmmm... I've never seen a CD that connects via floppy (anyone else) ... some of the old creative drives I've owned connected to a proprietary controller with the same edge connector as a floppy connector... .Could you just be missing a controller card.

I might, but if that's true it would be a ISA card. I don't have an ISA port on anything I have. I could probably get a PCI Riser, but why? Just for a 4X CD Drive? Not gonna do it.

[DVD_Ripper]

I have on old 4X CD drive that connects via a floppy cable. Tried to get it working on my system, but my system keeps viewing it as an actual floppy drive and asks for the drivers. If I try and add the drivers, my computer doesn't want to recognize them. It's an old Sony. Tried selling it, but nobody wants it.

Hmmm... I've never seen a CD that connects via floppy (anyone else) ... some of the old creative drives I've owned connected to a proprietary controller with the same edge connector as a floppy connector... .Could you just be missing a controller card.

I might, but if that's true it would be a ISA card. I don't have an ISA port on anything I have. I could probably get a PCI Riser, but why? Just for a 4X CD Drive? Not gonna do it.

I know... its tough... but you'll have to THROW IT AWAY .... it goes against my genes, not sure about you ... (I'm so bad I clip the wire off old appliances, just in case ... how sad am I)

[flaninacupboard]

"This is my collection of different lengths of wire, and that's my intergalactic spaceship. let me show you some of the different lengths wire i used to build it!"

I had an old CD-rom drive that plugged into my sound card.

[Doramius]

I have on old 4X CD drive that connects via a floppy cable. Tried to get it working on my system, but my system keeps viewing it as an actual floppy drive and asks for the drivers. If I try and add the drivers, my computer doesn't want to recognize them. It's an old Sony. Tried selling it, but nobody wants it.

Hmmm... I've never seen a CD that connects via floppy (anyone else) ... some of the old creative drives I've owned connected to a proprietary controller with the same edge connector as a floppy connector... .Could you just be missing a controller card.

I might, but if that's true it would be a ISA card. I don't have an ISA port on anything I have. I could probably get a PCI Riser, but why? Just for a 4X CD Drive? Not gonna do it.

I know... its tough... but you'll have to THROW IT AWAY .... it goes against my genes, not sure about you ... (I'm so bad I clip the wire off old appliances, just in case ... how sad am I)

I'll probably still hold onto it for a little while longer, then rip it open gut it for jumpers, motors, connectors, the optical device and a few other salvageable parts, then chunk the rest of it as scrap. I may keep the face and tray assembly. Good stuff to use to make custom PC cases.

[Doramius]

"This is my collection of different lengths of wire, and that's my intergalactic spaceship. let me show you some of the different lengths wire i used to build it!"

I had an old CD-rom drive that plugged into my sound card.

Damn, I know that movie. What's it from? You just had to go and make my brain work didn't you, Flan? Damn you.

[DVD_Ripper]

I'll probably still hold onto it for a little while longer, then rip it open gut it for jumpers, motors, connectors, the optical device and a few other salvageable parts, then chunk the rest of it as scrap. I may keep the face and tray assembly. Good stuff to use to make custom PC cases.

Someone worse than me... Regarding ripping things apart... I ripped open a dead PSU the other day and pull the fan... denotes 12V DC and had a connector that would hit my MB fan connector... is that connector normally 12V? Are most case fans 12V?

[flaninacupboard]

I'll probably still hold onto it for a little while longer, then rip it open gut it for jumpers, motors, connectors, the optical device and a few other salvageable parts, then chunk the rest of it as scrap. I may keep the face and tray assembly. Good stuff to use to make custom PC cases.

Someone worse than me... Regarding ripping things apart... I ripped open a dead PSU the other day and pull the fan... denotes 12V DC and had a connector that would hit my MB fan connector... is that connector normally 12V? Are most case fans 12V?

Most PSUs i've taken apart had hard wired fans, but they have all been 12V.

Daramius, it's a cartoon, not a movie

[Doramius]

I believe most of the big ones are. Some of the smaller CPU and chipset coolers run on half or less voltage. If it connects to the red and Black wires of the connectors your drives are connected to, I believe that's 12V. The Yellow and black I think is 6.5V. I don't mess to much with that.

When I strip a piece of equipment down I keep all of the screws in a can. I leave no screws at all. I have another can for the PIN JUMPERS. Can never have too many of those. The motors I'll connect to an outside power supply and use them on various other projects. (IE: My model train layout has a turnstyle from a different ROM drive) The optical parts can be made into simple emitters and receivers. (IE: My train comes to a station on the layout and breaks a beam causing the power to a section of track to shut off until the reset switch is flipped to make it go.) The belts I'll keep and use as rubber bands or as a belt on some other device I make. I might keep the chassis case for scrap sheet metal to cut various brackets and things from. I'm always itching to use my Dremmel. I love that tool. I knew my wife was looking to get laid when she bought it for me as a present out of the blue. I know if she gets me a table saw, it's time to conceive our next child.

[Doramius]

I'll probably still hold onto it for a little while longer, then rip it open gut it for jumpers, motors, connectors, the optical device and a few other salvageable parts, then chunk the rest of it as scrap. I may keep the face and tray assembly. Good stuff to use to make custom PC cases.

Someone worse than me... Regarding ripping things apart... I ripped open a dead PSU the other day and pull the fan... denotes 12V DC and had a connector that would hit my MB fan connector... is that connector normally 12V? Are most case fans 12V?

Most PSUs i've taken apart had hard wired fans, but they have all been 12V.

Daramius, it's a cartoon, not a movie

Futurama!!!!!!

I always see hard wired fans in the PSU on the red & black lines so again, that leads me to believe most are 12V. Again, I do know there are other fans that are at different voltages.

[flaninacupboard]

correctimundo! from the pilot episode, also featuring "....but i am already in my pyjamas" which he apparently remained in for five years!

[Doramius]

correctimundo! from the pilot episode, also featuring "....but i am already in my pyjamas" which he apparently remained in for five years!

I knew I heard that. I was hitting my head at first wondering where I heard it from. "Bite my shiny metal a**." became a treasured catch phrase.

[Capmaster]

correctimundo! from the pilot episode, also featuring "....but i am already in my pyjamas" which he apparently remained in for five years!

I knew I heard that. I was hitting my head at first wondering where I heard it from. "Bite my shiny metal a**." became a treasured catch phrase.

Someone here had that as his member status with a robot avatar. I can't remember who though