I bought an original copy of Pepper's Adventures in Time (1993)! Its development name was Twisty History. This is one of the Sierra Discovery Series games, which also included, among others, Mixed Up Mother Goose, Mixed Up Fairy Tales, EcoQuest 1 and 2, the Dr. Brain Trilogy, and Quarky and Quaysoo's Turbo Science. (Out of all of these, it seems only EcoQuest 1 was voiced, sadly.) I remember seeing these in the Sierra catalogs, but by that time I guess I considered myself beyond their subject matter. In any event, we never got them during the first run. But that means that now they are games that are totally new to me! And they are all 256 colors, with mouse, sound card support, etc.!
All my disks for Pepper's Adventures in Time were completely readable and I've imaged them with DISK2IMG for safekeeping, and also wrote those images to backup disks. I installed it on my tall tower 386 via the backup disks, which has MS-DOS 6.22 (released in 1994) and 8 MB. of RAM.
Attached is my default memory configuration after booting up from the hard drive, CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT.
After installing the game successfully, I can't get the game to run so far due to a memory error. I remember well that memory configuration was the crux of computer games in the early '90s.
Pepper's Adventures in Time uses the Sierra Online Game Install/Setup Program 3.580. I tried creating a boot floppy using the Sierra install program. After formatting the floppy, the install program says the formatting wasn't successful (even though as far as I can tell by reading the floppy afterward, it was).
Why do I get the unsuccessful format error? Is the installation program searching for stuff in MS-DOS 6.22 that was eliminated from previous versions of MS-DOS? How do I configure my memory so that the game will run? I at least have to have the mouse driver and SB16 drivers loaded in memory before running the game.
And if anyone has any pre-emptive advice for the same sort of issue for The Dagger of Amon Ra (CD talkie), please advise on that, too.
All my disks for Pepper's Adventures in Time were completely readable and I've imaged them with DISK2IMG for safekeeping, and also wrote those images to backup disks. I installed it on my tall tower 386 via the backup disks, which has MS-DOS 6.22 (released in 1994) and 8 MB. of RAM.
Attached is my default memory configuration after booting up from the hard drive, CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT.
After installing the game successfully, I can't get the game to run so far due to a memory error. I remember well that memory configuration was the crux of computer games in the early '90s.
You need 34000 more bytes of free memory available to run this game. If you have any resident software loaded please remove it and try again.
Script #: 0, IP: 0
Pepper's Adventures in Time uses the Sierra Online Game Install/Setup Program 3.580. I tried creating a boot floppy using the Sierra install program. After formatting the floppy, the install program says the formatting wasn't successful (even though as far as I can tell by reading the floppy afterward, it was).
Why do I get the unsuccessful format error? Is the installation program searching for stuff in MS-DOS 6.22 that was eliminated from previous versions of MS-DOS? How do I configure my memory so that the game will run? I at least have to have the mouse driver and SB16 drivers loaded in memory before running the game.
And if anyone has any pre-emptive advice for the same sort of issue for The Dagger of Amon Ra (CD talkie), please advise on that, too.
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