MoM was one of my first, if not the first computer-based strategy games that I played, and I absolutely loved it. I still have my hardcover manual.

Wanting very much to relive the hours and hours of enjoyment I had playing this game when it first came out, I downloaded an abandonware copy today. Unfortunately, I am getting an error message when I try to run magic.exe. The message is a DOS message: "reconfigure hardware options."

I was VERY disappointed, and rather embarrassed. I am an IT professional, and used to know DOS like the back of my hand. But I seem to have forgotten everything! Damn Windows brainwashing .

I use Windows 98 OS on an old PC. Does anyone have any advice as to how to resolve my problem so I can play MoM again? A good start would be a copy of the text from someone's autoexec.bat file, someone who can successfully run MoM on their PC. Another thing that would be helpful would be a link to any site or forum where i can chat with folks who still play the game. They might be able to suggest things to try.

I can hear the little song that plays, in my head right now! I really wanna play again ...