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[dosraider]

Originally Posted by Ohne Mitleid

Help?

Now now, if you begin to cry, can't have that,no.
You haz a PM.......

Originally Posted by Ohne Mitleid

Oh, and if someone did get it working, would they be so kind as to share the information on the DOSBox archive site so it would no longer be reported as 'broken'?

The game is still broken in today's dosbox.
An old (2007) and obsolete CVS doesn't count.

[Ohne Mitleid]

With a much appreciated assist from dosraider, I am playing this game. It's kind of quirky, really dark (visual displays are dark) and it tries to be scary. It's full of spelling errors and inconsistencies... anyway. I thought I had seen it all until my first encounter with the female lead in the game. The conversation went something like


!!!

[dosraider]

...... wonders what the respons of the game is when you click on "desires" .....

BTW, isn't that the same 'lady' you had encountered on the graveyard?

[Ohne Mitleid]

It's not the same woman. The first 'lady' had light blue hair, this one has dark blue hair, perpetually being blown back by the wind.

[Ohne Mitleid]

MY FINAL WORD

Originally Posted by dosraider

What a f*cking d*mned bitch to get it to install/run in dosbox !!!
For those who want to try:
To install the game in dosbox you'll need to grab command.com from MsDos 6 and put it in your dosbox virtual C: root.
Then the installer works. Go figure *sigh*.

The Installer for the game works with command.com in your C: root because it is using BRun45.exe as a component to the executable. This, in turn, points to <dir> comspec=command.com, expecting command.com to be in your root directory. The other thing to note is that DOSBox 0.74 (at least mine) is emulating DOS 5.0. Since the command.com you are talking about was 6.0, you also need to use a VER SET=6 00 to have the versions coincide. This would explain a lot of crashes for install and "incorrect DOS version" errors, although the errors I was getting were in Dutch(?), but meant the same thing. Go figure *sigh*.

Originally Posted by dosraider

Run the game in dosbox CVS.
The one I used and ran the b*tch successfully is CVS build 'dosbox_17.06.2007.exe' , mayhaps it runs in other CVS builds also, you can try it for yourselves, YA LAZY PEEPS that you are.

The game definitely does run with this CVS. The install should be made to run from hard drive only (choice A). Then things get more complicated, and I am getting way off topic for this thread. I do know what works and what doesn't, but I don't know why, or otherwise I would have better news.

Although this may be a game to be considered to be available on AB, the amount of posts that would be created trying to resolve all of the install / crash / running the game issues would be enormous.

I do have a crack, of sorts, for the manual-required copy protection, and a replacement file to correct all of the spelling and inconsistency errors in the game text. I could even write a walk-through and review the thing, if ever needed.

Otherwise, for me, game finished, complete, done...case closed!

[dosraider]

*Upping for update info ......*

Game now runs in latest SVN builds, so it will probably run also without problems in next dosbox release .......
For those who don't know: SVNs are dosbox next release testing vers ...

Seems there were some specific timer probs thingies ....

[marko river]

Interesting input.

I do expect you uploading ton of material, image in Cellar included, right?

[dosraider]

Originally Posted by marko river

I do expect you uploading ton of material, image in Cellar included, right?

Hmmmm, You always can dream ....