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[Eagle of Fire]

As you said, everything suggested so far been done without success. To try to find another solution, we'd need more information.

Where did you find the game? Is it a ripped version? Did you try installing the game directly with install.exe or setup.exe? If yes, what happen?

Also, I don't quite know what those "Gold Box" games really are...

[Sturmrabe]

"Gold Box" = TSR/SSI D+D RPGs...

Heheh, alphabet soup!

Think Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Champions of Krynn, etc.

The game is Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed.... I got it from here: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=1394

Is it ripped? I have no idea, there is no setup or install, just a "Start" and off it goes, the save function works fine when the game is started directly from the folder its in, though not at all when played inside DOSBOX (but it plays funky outside of DOSBOX cause the CPU speed of my modern lappy makes the game act crazy fast).

I'd just write this off skip it but I like the other Gold Box style RPGs... though I just though of a good test: I am going to download one of them from AB and see if it has the same issue....

[Eagle of Fire]

I will give it a try when I get home. I am currently at work.

[Sturmrabe]

Oh poop, no one has Curse of the Azure Bonds :'(

That is the only one I never actually finished... I thought it came out before the Krynn goldbox games... wonder why its not here... Hmmm...

Anyway, I'll try one of the Krynn ones on AB in the mean time...

EDIT: Blah, no Curse cause its in that game compilation... I might just buy it

Ok, after messing around with Champions of Krynn I THINK I figured it out;

Even if you change the save path in the config file of the game there is a COPYSAVE.BAT file that I am pretty sure is hosing things up, after running that and HD35.BAT I am now able to save Champions of Krynn chars to the the "Save" folder in the S:\DOS\COK\ directory...

Why this started working I have no idea... I noticed that after I ran HD35.bat it put a SAVEGAMA.DAT file in the "Save" folder, and in the game when I tried to 'load saved game' it gave me an option A to choose from... and after that I was able to save chars I had made...

If you could replicate not being able to save and try that it would as least tell us how I was able to save to I/we to tell future users of the Gold Box games with this issue... though unfortunately, this doesn't help me with BUck Rogers at all

[dosraider]

I unzipped the game in E:\games\buck\
Also created manually a e:\games\buck\save\
Mounted E:\games\ as C in dosbox.
cd buck
start
Launches game, no problems to save/load games.

Delete matrix.cfg in your \buck\ folder and start over, choices when configuring:
VGA
ADLIB
MOUSE
Accept c:\buck\save\ as save dir.

Works flawless in dosbox 0.72 default config.

And Sturmrabe, mixing your problems about several games in one topic won't help much to keep things sorted out.

[Sturmrabe]

I was just trying to use Champions of Krynn as a litmus for Buck Rogers, as its made in the same "style" I never had a problem with it, just trying to see if I could learn something about the Buck Rogers from it...

I'll try to set it up as you did...

Well slap my ass and call me Charlie, deleting matrix.cfg did the trick! Thanks!

[dosraider]

Paths..... paths, the first time you run the game it saves the path in matrix.cfg, as it are different paths running directly in Windows or using dosbox, it can't find the save folder anymore.

Enjoy it.


Charlie he says ..... :laugh:

[Eagle of Fire]

That's exactly why I'm thinking people should mount their c: drive. The problem here was exactly the same I was describing at the beginning of the discussion.

[dosraider]

That's excactly why people should NOT mount their C:\root but learn to run dosgames in dosbox. Dosgames, not Win/NT games.
And correctly mount a folder as virtual C.


You are becoming a real bore EOF. :laugh:

[Sturmrabe]

I think you guys should totally fight some more!