priestlyboy... Your posts are always helpful, and have solved a bunch of issues with the other games that I got running. On this issue, are you saying I should re-download dosbox 0.62? I downloaded 0.62 about two weeks ago (10/08/04).
Both Descent and System Shock load the dos4gw dos extender using dosbox and then crash out causing both the console and main window to close before I can see anything. The stderr.txt file says 'fatal signal: segmentation fault (SDL parachute deployed)'. Descent did run in dosbox 0.61 but very slowly …