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The hardware is a 386-16 with 640K base and 5M extended memory.
The software is MS-DOS 6.something.

I have created a boot disk which only sets up the HIMEM driver, 20 BUFFERS
and 10 FILES.  CHKDSK shows the free memory at 585K and World Circuit
says that this is not enough.  DOS is brain-dead and all, but the
Microprose should have been able to figure out a way to write the software
so it needs so much base memory.

So, anyone know any tricks to get around this?

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I've found it needs 600k. I had to move the doublespace driver to make room,
with a line in config.sys like this:

devicehigh=\dos\dblspace.sys /move

Good luck.

Dave

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You could try getting rid of the 'BUFFERS=20' line, and make sure you load DOS
high.
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: >I just installed World Circuit on my system and it won't run.
: >
: >The hardware is a 386-16 with 640K base and 5M extended memory.
: >The software is MS-DOS 6.something.
: >
: >I have created a boot disk which only sets up the HIMEM driver, 20 BUFFERS
: >and 10 FILES.  CHKDSK shows the free memory at 585K and World Circuit
: >says that this is not enough.  DOS is brain-dead and all, but the
: >Microprose should have been able to figure out a way to write the software
: >so it needs so much base memory.
: >
: >So, anyone know any tricks to get around this?
: >

: You could try getting rid of the 'BUFFERS=20' line, and make sure you load DOS
: high.
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: David Zuidema                   \  
: Monash University Physics dept. /     New improved sig.
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Try un - dblspacing your hard disk, if it is in the first place that is.
I've had the same problem with a few games and that seems to solve it.

        Kelvin.
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