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Issues trying to run Aliens: a Comic Book Adventure

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 5:28 am
by chocomochino
Hello i tried running Aliens a Comic book adventure but the game says: hooking interrupts i tried:

Setting up the sound (it was not configured correctly) i was able to get it into the setup program correctly
Installing it to e:\aliens ; installing it also to C:\aliens

but everytime the error says: hooking interrupts and it freezes, any ideas?

Re: Issues trying to run Aliens: a Comic Book Adventure

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 7:24 pm
by NLeseul
I've seen DOS 6.22 hang like that a couple of times when a program generates an exception. If possible, you might try running in the Windows 95 command prompt; that usually seems to give more useful exception output.

Is it possible that this game requires an FPU? I think the couple of times I've seen a fatal exception on program boot like that, it's been because the program was looking for an FPU and didn't find one.

Re: Issues trying to run Aliens: a Comic Book Adventure

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:25 pm
by chocomochino
NLeseul wrote: Thu Feb 18, 2021 7:24 pm I've seen DOS 6.22 hang like that a couple of times when a program generates an exception. If possible, you might try running in the Windows 95 command prompt; that usually seems to give more useful exception output.

Is it possible that this game requires an FPU? I think the couple of times I've seen a fatal exception on program boot like that, it's been because the program was looking for an FPU and didn't find one.
I just got just these as minimum requirements, i also used the Exoconverter first but was the same output;

Minimum
Operating system (OS) MS-DOS 5.0
Processor (CPU) 80486 DX2 66
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 20 KB
Video card (GPU) SVGA Vesa compatible
1 MB of VRAM

Do you have an image with win95?