Help with old ST game.

stitch626 · Post by **stitch626** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:37 pm

I have the first 20th aniversary game (along with Judgement Rights). I install it on my computer. I go to play it and a message comes up talking about extended memory or something like that. To my understanding, it is a type of memory that is unused anymore (as in, not standard). Can anyone help me. Preferably someone who has either had the problem before or is better with a computer than me, though any suggestions are appritiated.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 10:20 pm

What OS are you using? And if you throw up some system specs it would help a great deal.

stitch626 · Post by **stitch626** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 1:23 pm

I am running XP... the game worked on my old computer w/xp (my old computer was garbage).
My computer has more than the required specs to run the game, I'm just wondering what extended memory really is.
I will post my system specs as soon as I get home, who knows when that will be.

Reliant121 · Post by **Reliant121** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 1:26 pm

I have no idea considering I dont have a clue what game your on about. Occasionally being young isnt all that helpful.

stitch626 · Post by **stitch626** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 1:31 pm

It's an old game. TOS.
You generally control Kirk, Spock, McCoy and an expendable redshirt.

Reliant121 · Post by **Reliant121** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 1:41 pm

Riiiight.....

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 3:31 pm

It was DOS based right? You might need an emulator.

Extended memory is a term for everything above the first megabyte of ram (it's from the old 640K limit). IIRC you can change it through HIMEM.sys, though it's been 5 years since I've done anything with it (I also don't have XP anymore) so don't ask me how to change it.

stitch626 · Post by **stitch626** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 3:43 pm

While it was DOS based, it worked outside of MS-DOS.
Thanks for the help.

MetalHead · Post by **MetalHead** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:19 pm

ahhh those games were hilariously fun. They even let you kill red shirts!

Can you post your DxDiag?

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:24 pm

That was easily the best ST game made, Armada was close but it was a nice touch to copy the series in such detail.

Enkidu · Post by **Enkidu** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:31 pm

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/100/S ... rsary.html

This is an abandonware site (if you are unfamiliar with the term, it is a grey area where games are so old, or with no clear copyright owner, that the copyright isn't enforced.) This is the page for the 25th Anniversary game - I don't know if this is the one you have. They have down-loadable programs that will let you run it, and a forum page for the game where you can get advice on ironing out the bugs. I think the people who have abandonware as a hobby enjoy the technical challenge of running the games to playing them.....

stitch626 · Post by **stitch626** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:27 pm

Thank you so much.
I will try this over the weekend and let you know the results.

stitch626 · Post by **stitch626** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:54 am

Been to the site... looks good. Will give results of testing over weekend.

stitch626 · Post by **stitch626** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:56 pm

Ok. Earlyer than the weekend. I have installed the emulator and the game. Works well. Turns out that I had the enhanced cd (actors actually speak). I wonder if I could run from the CD with the emulator to make the original game work.

stitch626 · Post by **stitch626** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:30 pm

CD runs with emulator... woohoo

It works really well.
Thank you so much.