hi

I have my strike commander game from ages back which i thought ill give another try being such a wonderful game. but nowadays DOS just acts up and needs more and more memory to run the game.

Problem is my MS-DOS version is [5.1.2600] and when i press MEM /c i get the following results:

1048576 -- total contiguous extended memory
0 bytes available contiguous extended memory
941056 bytes available XMS memory
MS-DOS resident in High Memory Area

and when i try to run the game from DOS, it says expanded/extended memory on this computer is insufficient to continue the installation process. 1953k is needed.

And then I tried DOSBOX as well. There the message I GOT was "not enough DOS emory detected. 586k are needed to play Strike Commander. Only 425k was found"

Can someone please help me run this game ? ! ?

Thanks
I don't know if this will help but you could try a few of these settings...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/appcompat.mspx

tried that. didn't work.what Operating system you have?windows xp pro service pack 2Can you try to open like this .


right click on your exe file of the game .

and chose tab compatibility


and run it in win 95 mode . no that's a very common way of opening old files...i tried that also

however, u must realise that i am not trying to open the game from windows...this is a DOS game and i am gonna have to try opening it from either MS-DOS [5.1.2600] or DOSBOX 0.72

besides I dont even know where I can DOWNLOAD MS-DOS 6.0 from ? I downloaded 6.22 but that's only an upgrade and isnt of much help.Did you try to USE a boot disk from some kind of windows  and then from that start up you game . ?sadly i do not have a floppy drive ...are u referring to to a windows xp boot cd...but that WOULD take me right into the installation process and not DOS right ?  How exactly do you have DOS installed on this machine ? ?resident DOS [5.1.2600]

by using the "Run" > "cmd"  command