Author: Keith Evans
Date: 09:15:57 01/09/04
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On January 09, 2004 at 02:52:45, Ed Trice wrote: >Hi Keith, >> >>One way to get it to work: >> >>1 - Make a DOS boot floppy on a Win 98 machine (call this a:) >>2 - copy ansi.sys from c:\windows\command\ansi.sys to a: >>3 - create a config.sys file with the line (no quotes): "device = ansi.sys" >>4 - download and copy capagnu.exe to a: >>5 - reboot your computer with this floppy and type capagnu >> >>There may be other ways to do it, but with this method you can probably play on >>any PC with a floppy drive regardless of what OS is present. >> >>I just tried this and it worked for me. You can edit the board to get the gothic >>starting position. >> > >Perfect! Now you can play it against Gothic Vortex if you want! > >Just go to http://www.GothicChess.org/gv_release.html and download my program, >run the Setup.exe, then have them duke it out and let me know how it goes! > > I have Windows NT Professional and Windows XP, no more Win98 systems. That was one reason for the boot floppy idea. If you want you can probably find somebody in your neighborhood that still runs Win 98, and then you can get them to create a floppy which can be used on your NT or XP machines. There may be other ways to do this like using bochs, but the floppy seemed the easiest way.
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