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[The Fifth Horseman]

Is it best to keep these settings for all my games?

Yes, unless you're going to play a resource-intensive game (Quake, X-Com 3 etc), in which case it's better to change the resolution to the one the game natively uses, switch output to Overlay and disable the scalers and aspect correction.

hi im having trouble.
i have installed dosbox and my game works absolutely fine on it.
but when ive played the game and want to save where i am...i press f5...i type in whatever im saving and then click save...it keeps saying at the top "the game has NOT been saved"
i dont know what to do with it...i really want to play the game but dont want to do it all in one day.
please help. thanks

[The Fifth Horseman]

Check if in Windows the directory where you unpacked the game is set to Read Only.
If yes, uncheck that.

Also, remember you need full read/write/modify permissions in that directory - this might be a bit problematic in Windows Vista.

[dosraider]

Indeed, if *IF* you're on Vista use a folder in
c:\users\your_name\ as virtual C:
There dosbox will have all the needed write rights.

[Frodo]

Originally Posted by follz

hi im having trouble.
i have installed dosbox and my game works absolutely fine on it.
but when ive played the game and want to save where i am...i press f5...i type in whatever im saving and then click save...it keeps saying at the top "the game has NOT been saved"
i dont know what to do with it...i really want to play the game but dont want to do it all in one day.
please help. thanks

For Fate Of Atlantis, you would be better using Scumm. Scumm was designed to play old adventure games like this.

what do i do in order for dosbox to know where to store my saved files?
im new at working with dosbox.

[dosraider]

As you could read -(and obviously didn't understand, can happen)- it kinda depends of your OS and permissions how to solve some problems.
In fact it's pretty easy if *IF* we know your OS.
You hardly can expect us to give all the possible answers and tell you the correct mounts for all the possible OSses that are around on this big ball we call the Earth.

So be a nice chap and let us know what OS you're on ....
AKA: details please, and more details.

As can be:
Linux -(several)-, Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT,Win2k,WinXP, Vista,Win 7, MacOS, whatever and whatnots ....... etcetera etcetera ....

[Frodo]

Follz, it's easier to use SCUMM for old adventure games.

[The Fifth Horseman]

what do i do in order for dosbox to know where to store my saved files?
im new at working with dosbox.

DOS games typically store the save files in the directory the game runs from.
This is also true for Fate of Atlantis.
As long as you mount your games directory properly and have full read/write access to the directory you placed the game, there should not be any problems.

[dosraider]

Originally Posted by Frodo

Follz, it's easier to use SCUMM for old adventure games.

ScummVM or dosbox doesn't matter, if the soft doesn't have write rights, the game won't save.