Good news! The ripsaw8080 has found the errors to the freeze. He has written a loader that makes the game playable. Important settings are: core = dynamic cycles = max Selects Sound Blaster, if you will be asked during setup. It is possible that CW2492 not work for everyone, because this loader is …

i think, Colony Wars runs on all qemu versions (Win/Linux): 1. Install QemuManager or an normal qemu 2. Install DOS 6.22 (if FreeDOS work, i don't now) 3. Install mousedriver/ oakcdrom.sys for cdrom and mouse 4. Install Colonywars 2492 WITHOUT any Sound and you can play the game. 5. Install univbe ( …

I find out that the game runs in qemu. Now I investigate the difference between the both system.

How did you install it? From CD, full install. I can break in debugging, when it hangs. The debugger is not responding after this time.

I use 0.72 for Debugging and 0.73 for normal playing. The game is correctly installed and i try different options ems=false, machine=vgaonly, sound disabled etc. The game is broken since 0.65 and runable since 0.72(Play Intro, Loading Menu, freez). Is there a way to figure out, where dosbox freez ? …

Hi there. After the Loading-Screen freezes DOSBox completly, titlebar returns from "cw.exe" to "command", but the screen is black. The debugger shows, that, the game write the File "area_2\ico_svga.dat" to the rom at 0xc0000. Is this game copy icons to the videomemory from dosbox? Is this a possible …

yes, its playable. On the beginning of the game, you must type your name.

Many thanks!

yes

That's bad ! Is there a way to deactivate the build-in mousedriver from dosbox ?

I want to play "Scenario" with DOS-Box 0.70. On every start comes the message: ""Bitte stellen Sie Ihre Maus auf 2 Tasten ein, booten Ihren PC erneut und starten dann Scenario." (In English: "Please configure your mouse to 2 Buttons, reboot your Pc and run scenario.") In Dosbox 0.65 comes another …