got it working, it was some weird version of ES: Arena. downloaded another one. sorry for wasting your time and thank you for the help.

And don't start it from Windows 3.x check original post --> 'running it just in dosbox ends with a black screen and me having to sudo killall dosbox.'

the elder scrolls: arena stands in the supported games list, but I'm having problems with it. Namely, if I start the game it says 'Not enough EMS'. Running dosbox 0.74 in Linux, comp specs: 2.93 Ghz Celeron 1568 RAM 256 MB ATI video card xms, ems, umb are all enabled. As an additional note I should …