I want to run a DOS game (Bitmap Brothers' "Gods") on my laptop, but when I start the game the computer hangs/halts, leaving me with a blinking cursor under the command line and all I can do is restarting the computer. The laptop has 3.1 GB HDD, 32 MB EDO RAM, 60/120Mhz Intel Processor. (Toshiba Satellite 210) The game runs perfectly fine under DOS 6.22 on a DOS partition of a Desktop with a 1.2 Ghz AMD, >40 GB HDD and 256 MB RAM. I have tried every possible emm386 configuration as well as all other possible memory configurations I could think of. I even ran memmaker several times. Before that I had tried to run the game on the laptop under Win98, which failed as well. Does anybody have an idea or hint what the problem could be or where else I could look for a solution?

You have posted your OS as MS-DOS 6.22 but state that it has a 3.1GB Harddrive? Is 6.22 the main OS on this laptop (MS-DOS 6.22 will only work on HD's upto 2GBs - You may have partitioned it) or is it something else? Please confirm. Please reply with a message to let us all know we are on the right track...

You're right, I forgot to mention that. Now that DOS is running it's running on a ~1000 MB partition of the 3,1 GB HDD.

Some old games are not forward compatible, and will not run for various reasons. One is too much memory, which I suspect may be the cause of your problem. Good luck - Keep us posted.

Too much memory? What kind of memory do you mean? It did run under DOS 6.22 on a much faster computer with a lot more memory. That's what I find so confusing.

Hm. I found more detailed info on the requirements: Minimum CPU Class Required 80286 Minimum OS Class Required DOS 3.0 to 3.3 Minimum RAM required 640 kilobytes Video Modes Supported EGA, Tandy / PCjr, VGA Sound Devices Supported Adlib, PC Speaker, Roland MT-32 (and LAPC-1), Sound Blaster, Tandy / PCjr Does that mean this program needs 640KB conventional memory? How do I provide that? I never get the whole 640KB free for use by a program, the most I got was 613 KB.

From your descriptions I would look at wether or not the Sound and or the Graphics are compatible, most Games have a 'SETUP' execution file to setup the parameters. Possibly it does not recognise the TFT screen as VGA compatible, try a utility which will diagnose such as UNIVBE from: http://www.scitechsoft.com/products/ent/free_titles.html Also you could use the sound set blaster variable in AUTOEXEC.BAT ie; SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 The parameters are as follows: A220 is the I/O Port address I5 is the IRQ or Interupt number D1 is the DMA IRQ number Lastly 550K+ memory should be sufficient