Solitaire crashes with KR-09 if sound is enabled under FreeDOS

[dnesbitt142]

This seems to be a longstanding bug since the days of Breadbox Ensemble when run under FreeDOS.

If global Sound support is enabled in the Preferences Sound panel or, unless muteSound = true is set in the [klondike] section of geos.ini, then launching Solitaire will almost instantly produce a KR-09 error when starting.

This issue is reproducible on my FreeDOS installs (both hardware and virtualised) regardless of what provided memory managers are used (or with FreeDOS Emergency Mode with no memory manager used), or if the /nomem switch is used with loader.exe.

Cheers,

Dan

[dnesbitt142]

This issue does not seem to occur when using HIMEMX and JEMM386 (option 3 when booting FreeDOS) on my P3 Celeron Box.

[dnesbitt142]

Update, removing the NOEMS flag solves the issue for Jemmex on my bare metal system, but it does reduce the free conventional memory to around 580KB.

[dnesbitt142]

A further update, using the older HIMEM and EMM386 from the emmx226 package (https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/emm386/emm/2.2/) also works fine with the NOEMS flag.