#Imagine 2.9 PC
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I just bought Imagine 2.9 for PC and can't get it to work on my setup.
Every time I run it I get : EMM386: Unrecoverable priviledged operation error
05 – Press ENTER to reboot. What is wrong?
Jacek Artymiak (Bitmap Studios Ltd)
Imagine uses its own extender code to access EMS and XMS. This wont work with
EMM386. You either have to reconfigure so you dont use EMM386, or turn it off
with the 'EMM386 OFF' command (nothing must be using high memory for this to
work).
I just have a DOS-6 boot configuration that leaves out EMM386.
Phil Camp, UK.
Happy, happy, joy, joy!
I just solved this mistery! Its rather emarasing… The cause of trouble was
the memory manager as suggested by Impulse and may others (thanks boys!). I
could not proceed beyond the opening screen because the proper mouse driver had
not been installed beforehand. I was confused because the mouse worked with MS
software and 3D Studio. I have modyfied my Config and Autoexec files and
everything is just fine.
Many thanks to all who replied to my posting.
Jacek Artymiak (Bitmap Studios Ltd)
We too finally figured out that you needed to remove the EMM386 driver from the
system, but we also though there was a bit of lunacy on Impulse's part for no
mention of it in the docs or addendum.
If you use MS-Dos 6.2, you can set up a menuing system in your config.sys to
handle multiple configurations. There is a section in the skimpy manual that
is provided with the dos on how to do it.
JL
Thanks John,
I did just that but for some reason I won't get beyond the opening screen.
Jacek Artymiak (Bitmap Studios Ltd)