Author: J. Lewis
Date: 07:21:26 04/22/04
Are there any MSDOS Sargon III chess users out there? My problem is, I have a Windows98 machine, and I received a copy of the Sargon III program on a 5 1/4 floppy (it says for IBM PC-1984). I copied it onto a 3 1/2 inch floppy. I loaded the disk and tried to run the program from the diskette. It comes up on the screen briefly, then disappears. So, I tried to run it from the c: prompt in msdos. Same thing. The screen appears for maybe 2 seconds, then it disappears. I went to Microsoft's tech. support on the web and tried their "fixes", but it still doesn't work. I then found a "tricks and tips" hack site on how you go in and change a line of code in the program so that it doesn't need the disk when you run the program (how do you do that?). I noted that when I copied the program onto my hard drive, it still tries to access the disk, then I get the message "non-system disk." This always happens after the program flashes on the screen for a couple of seconds, then disappears. I've tried changing the display monitor properties, then I read on another web site that I need to change the high memory area?? -Does anybody out there have this program, and how can I get it to run, either out of Windows 98 or in MS-DOS?
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