Asf Error (not enough dos memory)

[Dagonet]

Hi people i and trying to load up Wing Commander Academy, how ever when i mount to dosbox it goes to the menu screen and cuts out. It come up with ASF ERROR. I have no idea what this is.

IF someone could shed any light on this i would be most grateful.

 

[Madman]

hmm, wierd, is this the floppy disk version (fully installed to the hard-drive?) or a cd version? Could you post a list of the files in the academy folder (so i can make sure it's installed correctly), and also a copy of your dosbox config file (and any other commands you run at the dosprompt after loading dosbox before starting academy)

It's a lot of stuff I know, but makes it a lot easier to debug

 

[Dagonet]

Hey

Hi sorry for the late reply, i have a very annoying job which keeps me hidden away for some time. ~~~

I appreciate your response but i am a '~~~~' when it comes to stuff like this so i apologise if what i am sending is wrong.

To answer your first question....it is a cd not a floppy. However it is an EA Compilation CD with various other games on it. I dont know if that would make a difference.

The files that are installed to a virtual hard drive in a sub folder called Dosgames are as follows.
GAmedat
Adlib.adv
Config
help (ironic ~~~)
Install
MT32MPU.adv
Readme
SBDIG.adv
wca
wca

Regards to the dosbox config file, i am usiong dosbox.070 with no mods. (i have tried all versions of dosbox)

THANKS
Dag

 

[Dagonet]

Just tried it again and now it tells me i need 4 600 000 bytes of free space ?????

 

[Madman]

So this is admittedly on dosbox 0.74. With an un-modified config file (note that means ems and xms are both true), I can install from my "EA presents" cd (or any other means) and get the following file structure:

Folder: C:\dos\WCA
<DIR> Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 3,949 KB GAMEDAT
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 17 KB ADLIB.ADV
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 14 KB HELP.TXT
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:48 0 KB HISCORE
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 11 KB MT32MPU.ADV
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 129 KB ORIGIN.EXE
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 1 KB README.TXT
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 5 KB SBDIG.ADV
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 0 KB WCA.CFG
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 281 KB WCA.EXE

Folder: C:\dos\WCA\GAMEDAT
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 21 KB ACADEMY.TIM
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 1 KB ARROW.VGA
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 4 KB COCKPIT.VGA
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 70 KB COMMUNIC.S12
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 76 KB COMMUNIC.S23
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 90 KB COMMUNIC.S24
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 89 KB COMMUNIC.S25
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 65 KB COMMUNIC.S27
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 1 KB COMMUNIC.T01
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB COMMUNIC.T12
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB COMMUNIC.T14
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB COMMUNIC.T15
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB COMMUNIC.T16
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB COMMUNIC.T17
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB COMMUNIC.T23
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB COMMUNIC.T24
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB COMMUNIC.T25
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB COMMUNIC.T27
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 1 KB COMMUNIC.YOU
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 54 KB CONFPANL.VGA
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 1 KB CREDITS.DAT
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 140 KB DISPLAY.PAK
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 6 KB FLAK.VGA
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 5 KB FONTS.FNT
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB FX.000
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 58 KB HISCORE.VGA
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 1 KB HOTRECT.PAK
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB INTEL.014
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB INTEL.015
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB INTEL.016
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB INTEL.017
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB INTELSHP.000
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB INTELSHP.001
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB INTELSHP.002
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB INTELSHP.003
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB INTELSHP.004
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB INTELSHP.005
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB INTELSHP.006
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB INTELSHP.007
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB INTELSHP.008
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB INTELSHP.009
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB INTELSHP.015
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB INTELSHP.041
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB INTELSHP.050
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB INTELSHP.051
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 247 KB INTRO.VGA
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 0 KB MESSAGE.V00
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 8 KB MISSILE.V00
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 8 KB MISSILE.V01
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 93 KB MUSIC.A00
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 122 KB MUSIC.R00
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 10 KB NWFONT.VGA
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 21 KB NUKE.VGA
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 144 KB OBJECTS.VGA
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 4 KB PALETTES.V00
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 67 KB PCSHIP.V00
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 60 KB PCSHIP.V01
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 72 KB PCSHIP.V02
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 63 KB PSHIP.V03
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 66 KB PCSHIP.V04
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 58 KB PCSHIP.V15
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 65 KB PCSHIP.V41
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 52 KB PCSHIP.V50
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 65 KB PCSHIP.V51
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 20 KB PILOTANM.VGA
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 57 KB PLANETS.V00
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 125 KB SHIP.V13
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 126 KB SHIP.V20
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 54 KB SHIP.V23
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 65 KB SIMCON.VGA
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 9 KB SIMFX.VGA
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 71 KB SIMROOM.VGA
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 21 KB STARS.VGA
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 5 KB STRAX.DRV
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 43 KB SUPERTM.DRV
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 232 KB TITLE.VGA
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 14 KB TM.DRV
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 31 KB TRANFX.VGA
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 51 KB VDU.V00
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 1 KB WAVEINFO.DAT
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 8 KB WINGMAN.VGA
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 60 KB XSHIP.V00
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 62 KB XSHIP.V01
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 72 KB XSHIP.V02
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 68 KB XSHIP.V03
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 61 KB XSHIP.V04
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 69 KB XSHIP.V05
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 71 KB XSHIP.V06
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 68 KB XSHIP.V07
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 62 KB XSHIP.V08
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 64 KB XSHIP.V09
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 83 KB XSHIP.V15
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 72 KB XSHIP.V20
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 72 KB XSHIP.V41
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:43 109 KB XSHIP.V50
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:44 115 KB XSHIP.V51

From that the game runs fine - no problems. if you still have issues then, theres something else going on. either your copy isn't installing properly (check the wca\gamedat folder matches the list above). also you have a couple of extra files in the root, config and install. Install.exe is probably the installer from the floppy version (renamed to origin.exe in the cd version)

my floppy version has the following file structure

Folder: C:\dos\wca2
<DIR> Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:55 3,952 KB gamedat
<DIR> Sat, 20 Nov 2010 12:02 34 KB MISSIONS
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 17 KB adlib.adv
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 14 KB help.txt
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB hiscore
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 129 KB install.exe
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 11 KB mt32mpu.adv
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 1 KB readme.txt
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 5 KB sbdig.adv
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB wca.cfg
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 281 KB wca.exe

Folder: C:\dos\wca2\gamedat
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 21 KB academy.tim
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 1 KB arrow.vga
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 12:02 0 KB AS.0
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 12:02 0 KB AS.1
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 12:02 0 KB AS.2
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 12:02 0 KB AS.3
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 4 KB cockpit.vga
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 70 KB communic.s12
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 76 KB communic.s23
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 90 KB communic.s24
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 89 KB communic.s25
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 65 KB communic.s27
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 1 KB communic.t01
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB communic.t12
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB communic.t14
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB communic.t15
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB communic.t16
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB communic.t17
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB communic.t23
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB communic.t24
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB communic.t25
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB communic.t27
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 1 KB communic.you
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 54 KB confpanl.vga
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 1 KB credits.dat
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 140 KB display.pak
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 6 KB flak.vga
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 5 KB fonts.fnt
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB fx.000
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 58 KB hiscore.vga
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 1 KB hotrect.pak
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB intel.014
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB intel.015
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB intel.016
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB intel.017
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB intelshp.000
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB intelshp.001
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB intelshp.002
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB intelshp.003
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB intelshp.004
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB intelshp.005
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB intelshp.006
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB intelshp.007
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB intelshp.008
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB intelshp.009
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB intelshp.015
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB intelshp.041
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB intelshp.050
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB intelshp.051
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 247 KB intro.vga
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 0 KB message.v00
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 8 KB missile.v00
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 8 KB missile.v01
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 93 KB music.a00
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 122 KB music.r00
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 10 KB newfont.vga
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 21 KB nuke.vga
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 144 KB objects.vga
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 4 KB palettes.v00
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 67 KB pcship.v00
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 60 KB pcship.v01
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 72 KB pcship.v02
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 63 KB pcship.v03
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 66 KB pcship.v04
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 58 KB pcship.v15
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 65 KB pcship.v41
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 52 KB pcship.v50
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 65 KB pcship.v51
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 20 KB pilotanm.vga
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 57 KB planets.v00
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 125 KB ship.v13
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 126 KB ship.v20
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 54 KB ship.v23
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 65 KB simcon.vga
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 9 KB simfx.vga
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 71 KB simroom.vga
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 21 KB stars.vga
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 5 KB strax.drv
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 43 KB supertm.drv
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 232 KB title.vga
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 14 KB tm.drv
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 31 KB tranfx.vga
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 51 KB vdu.v00
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 1 KB waveinfo.dat
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 8 KB wingman.vga
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 60 KB xship.v00
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 62 KB xship.v01
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 72 KB xship.v02
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 68 KB xship.v03
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 61 KB xship.v04
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 69 KB xship.v05
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 71 KB xship.v06
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 68 KB xship.v07
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 62 KB xship.v08
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 64 KB xship.v09
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 83 KB xship.v15
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 72 KB xship.v20
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 72 KB xship.v41
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 109 KB xship.v50
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:54 115 KB xship.v51

Hope this is some help!

 

[Madman]

It occurs that the other thing to check is that everything is mounted right:

mount c c:\dos
mount d d:\ -t cdrom

this mounts c:\dos as your c drive and the cdrom drive d as your d drive. ensure you mount the cdrom drive with the -t cdrom extension

 

[AD]

So what's the error? Does it just not want to install? As madman asked, did you make sure everything was mounted correctly? You have to make sure you used the proper cdrom switch when mounting your optical drive.

If that doesn't work, try copying the armada folder off the cd onto the harddrive and then mount that folder in dosbox and install/play the game from there.

 

[Dagonet]

I have no idea ~~~. I cant even install the game now. It says i need 4 600 000 bytes???

I play wc1 wc2 wc3 all on dos box so i assume i am mounting them right. Its just academy i struggle with.

My gamdat folder is empty????

 

[Dagonet]

ALL WORKING NOW

I had to copy the gamedat files from the cd to the sub folder i was mounting too.

THANKS TO THE BOTH OF YOU

 

[Madman]

Glad to see you got it working enjoy!