-=> Quoting Bill King to Edwin Van Gessel <=-
 BK> Here's what happens when I try to run Duke3D:
 BK> Smartdrive is disabled in order to get enouogh free mem (7220K).
 BK> EMM386 is running.
 BK> Largest executable pgm = 605K
 BK> Largest free upper mem = 55K
 BK> Using VVESA emulator.
 BK> Error message:
 BK> Playback failed, possibly due to an invalid or conflicting IRQ.
  (Edited for brevity)
  Bill,
    This may not be your problem, but try disabling EMM386. Duke runs
    much better without it. In fact, I have found the easiest way to
    run Duke is to make a boot disk that only has IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS,
    COMMAND.COM, & the following for AUTOEXEC.BAT & CONFIG.SYS.
    (Autoexec.bat)
    ECHO OFF
    SET GALAXY=A220 I7 D1 K10 P530 T6
    SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T4
    SET SOUND=C:\STELLAR
    C:\STELLAR\UTILITY\VOLSET /V:10 /X:10 /F:10 /C:14 /L:14 /M:0 /R:M
    SET PATH=C:\DOS;C:\;C:\MOUSE
    SET MSINPUT=C:\MSINPUT
    C:\MSINPUT\KEYBOARD\KBDCPL.EXE /S
    PROMPT $P$G
    C:\MOUSE\MOUSE SER 1
    D:
    CD D:\DUKE3D
    DUKE3D.EXE
    Lines 2,3,4 & 5 above are for my sound card. Just substitute what
    you need for your sound. Lines 7 & 8 are for my keyboard. Once
    again, just substitute your keyboard commands. The last three
    lines change to the drive & directory where Duke is and launch the
    program. The rest is just standard stuff.
    (Config.sys)
    FILES=30
    BUFFERS=35
    STACKS=9,256
    Hope you find this usefull, but if you don't, what the heck. It
    didn't take too long to try!!
  Mike.
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