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From: "Arthur" <arfa AT clara DOT net>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Problem with Allegro Examples
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 14:38:21 -0000
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> I've checked FAQs and other documentation, and other posting on this
> newsgroup, and I haven't seen this problem reported (though I may have
> missed it):  why is it that when I've tried to run the compiled examples
> provided with Allegro in a DOS box under Win98, I usually, but
> not for every
> example, get the error message "Program too big to fit in
> memory."  The few
> that do run properly are in some cases larger than ones that won't.  Also,
> in the case of the fixed point math demo, I get an illegal operation
> message.
>
> Thanks in advance from an obvious beginner.
>

Look at the properties tag of your DOSbox. I bet that you've got the DPMI
memory setting too low, or that you've not physically got enough RAM to run
it in. How much do you have? Win98 has an effective minimum of 32MB.

James Arthur - jaa AT arfa DOT clara DOT net
http://www.arfa.clara.net/james/
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