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Old March 19th, 2008, 06:41 PM
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I played MoM just last week on my XP box in a Dosbox. I think I had sound off. I had the original but used a copy from an abandonware site.
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About running MoM. I don't have specific rememberance, but I know that sometime in the past three years I loaded it up and played it on my WinXP rig (same as it is now, only diff is a beter vid card) and I DON'T recall using any helper programs. I know WinXP has a menu you can pull up when you right click a .bat or .exe file that impacts how it tries to run the file...perhaps there's another way? I own the game, but I think this recent install was from a dl'd copy (who can keep full track of game CD's from that far back). I don't have it installed anymore, so sorry I can't give more specific help.
There is a change you can make in your registry that will allow you to run the game without the help of DosBox or VDMsound. The registry change enables a menu item when you right click and choose properties and toggle the memory settings. This is the way I ran the game on Windows 98, ME and XP for years.

Then I wanted to hear the sounds, so I started using VDMsound. If I can figure out the registry change again, I will post it, because out of all the ways I have run the game, it ran the best straight in windows without sound. It never crashed, the turns loaded the quickest and there were no problems with the cpu speed.
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Old March 19th, 2008, 06:31 PM
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Quick tips on running MOM with Dosbox:

1. Download MOM from http://www.the-underdogs.info

While I am clearly technologically challenged, that link seems to lead to a blank page? Am I missing something? Thanks for bearing with me.
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It lacks 'www' from the actual address.
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Master of Magic - I never played this. I tried once to download some abandonware and DOS emulator but I am no tech guru and never managed to get this to run.

I see now you can buy a version on eBay for ~$80 that supposedly has been patched to easily run on XP or Vista and has the manuals on CD.
Total rip-off. It probably just has an installer for DosBox or VDMSound or something like that. The manuals for MoM are all available on the net, too, on HOTU for example. Do yourself a favor, save those dollars and get the game from HOTU yourself. Then install VDMSound and use it on the games setup.exe (?) and magic.exe yourself.

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the version of MOM from the Underdogs is the 1.31 ?
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