Why doesn the game work under Windows 95? Why does the game exit immediately before even the title screen?
The answer is almost certainly insufficient conventional memory. The game itself requires about 600000 bytes of free conventional memory; if you don’t have enough it will typically exit immediately without even printing a warning message. Windows 95 is a common culprit. Bill Gates has chosen to deliberately mislead users, telling them that Windows 95 will solve all their DOS memory management problems. He lied. The good news is that the vast majority of users can solve the problem themselves, by editing their config.sys and autoexec.bat files to ensure that DOS device drivers aren’t loaded if Windows 95 can supply protected mode equivalents; this usually means CD-ROM and network drivers. As an example, here are my configuration files.
