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Interesting, the message means that a very early memory allocation failed, and that should not be the case on a 4MB machine.

One of the first things the game does is to dump how much ST-RAM and TT-RAM it can allocate at max. Something like:

C&C ST - At program start:
ST-RAM 2308478 b (~2254 KiB)
TT-RAM 0 b (~0 KiB)

I'd love to know what your system is saying (you can pause the real Atari ST by pressing Ctrl+S and resume with Ctrl+Q).

thidal23 days ago

indyjo10 days ago

Can you try once more with version 0.2.2? I believe this error is fixed. (MxAlloc memory allocation issue)

thidal9 days ago

So, I'll be able to run tests again starting Thursday evening, since I'm currently away from my Atari! But I'll let you know as soon as I can!

thidal3 days ago

I finally got to try the latest version (0.3.0) on my 1040 STE today! It doesn't work any better with EmuTos, but it does work with my TOS, though the game crashes sometimes at startup (it freezes on the title screen, sometimes with the famous Atari bombs), and sometimes after choosing a faction (the music loops and it freezes). Note: I'm using an Ultra Satan disc.

indyjo3 days ago

People have described similar problems with the audx system. I’m investigating.

thidal22 days ago

Another result with EmuTOS 1.2 on my real Atari 1040 STE (4Mb) :

ST-RAM 403572 b (~394 KiB)

TT-RAM 0 b (~0 KiB)

indyjo21 days ago

Weird. So TOS is reporting no free RAM left (or only 400k in the second case), right at the beginning of the game, before all the large allocations are made. The first allocation then fails. Do you have any desktop accessories, drivers or RAM-disks installed which could explain this? I'm pretty sure a vanilla Hatari 4MB STE would work.

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