Tech question for guys more in the know than I

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

And I’m taking RIGHTTURN’s suggestion and attempting the download.

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

OK now I’m really lost—I downloaded as Rightturn suggested and it plays just fine—so why does the download work and not the original disk?

[rightturnclydeParticipant 705]

I think it might be an updated version of the original. The exe file in the program you just downloaded has the same name as the patch which fixes compatibility issues.

[sidecarParticipant 35837]

PistolPete wrote:

OK now I’m really lost—I downloaded as Rightturn suggested and it plays just fine—so why does the download work and not the original disk?

rightturnclyde wrote:

I think it might be an updated version of the original.

^^this.

The download has been fixed to correct the broken, obsolete system calls in the original.

Back to your original question, you might consider using qemu to emulate an older pentium PC, installing win95 on that, then installing your game on top of that win95 installation. This is what I did the last time I got the itch to play Tie Fighter again.

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

YOU Tech guys rock!

[sidecarParticipant 35837]

I think I’m going to spend this weekend seeing how well a raspberry pi can emulate Win95 for games. It’s supposed to be about as powerful as an old 300Mhz Pentium 2, so it should theoretically be able to emulate a 100MHz Pentium 1 for any of the old school games I used to play on my old 486 I pulled out of the trash. I kind of want to carry around Wing Commander Privateer in my pocket.

[SolidParticipant 7520]

sidecar wrote:

I think I’m going to spend this weekend seeing how well a raspberry pi can emulate Win95 for games. It’s supposed to be about as powerful as an old 300Mhz Pentium 2, so it should theoretically be able to emulate a 100MHz Pentium 1 for any of the old school games I used to play on my old 486 I pulled out of the trash. I kind of want to carry around Wing Commander Privateer in my pocket.

Keep us informed ! I’m curious about raspberry pi performance regarding this subject.

[SolidParticipant 7520]

Brother ! If you still want to play the game, there is this version

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/panzer-general-2as/play-2as

You can play online, or download the game and just run it on dosbox !

[SolidParticipant 7520]

It runs the “PG.BAT” program there to start the game, inside the dosbox, run this file. If you installation is missing it, here it goes

@echo off
cd exe
univbe
rem ————————————————————————–
rem . game.bat
rem .
rem . This is a batch file to load the Gravis Ultrasound in Native mode.
rem . And start the game…
rem .
rem . Author: Ralph Thomas
rem .
rem . Revision: 1.0 1/24/94
rem . 1.1 2/7/94 Fixed to accomodate the loadpats
rem . program detecting the GUS software
rem . revision…
rem ————————————————————————–

rem Detect card

IF “%ULTRADIR%”==”” goto NO_GRAVIS
GOTO GUS_LOAD

:GUS_LOAD

rem ————————————————————————–
rem If loadpats fails it means that the user has an old revision of the Gravis
rem software and will need to contact Gravis for an update to make this work…
rem ————————————————————————–

loadpats
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO OLD_REVISION

goto RUN_GRAVIS

:OLD_REVISION

rem ————————————————————————–
rem Set the environmental var to NULL so the sound installer will not “detect”
rem the Gravis
rem ————————————————————————–

set ULTRASND=

cls
echo …ÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕª
echo ∫ Gravis Native Mode Installation Error ∫
echo ÃÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕπ
echo ∫ ∫
echo ∫ ERROR: Native Mode is not Supported by Revisions ∫
echo ∫ of the Gravis Software Less Then 2.00 ∫
echo ∫ ∫
echo ∫ Contact Gravis to Obtain an Update of ∫
echo ∫ Their Software… ∫
echo ∫ ∫
echo ∫ Voice (604) 431-5020 ∫
echo ∫ Fax (604) 431-5155 ∫
echo ∫ BBS (604) 431-5927 V32bis ∫
echo ∫ ∫
echo ∫ Compuserve: GO PCVENB (71333,350) ∫
echo ∫ FidoNET: 1:153/978 ∫
echo ∫ InterNET EMail: tech@gravis.com ∫
echo ∫ SBCNET: 13:900/3 ∫
echo ∫ ∫
echo »ÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÕº
pause
GOTO NO_GRAVIS

:RUN_GRAVIS
cls
panzer.exe
goto END

:NO_GRAVIS
cls
panzer.exe
goto END

:END
cd..

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