Well, so much for that. I tried EVERYTHING in the CD-ROM FAQ as well as the ISO. Nothing works. MC still craps out to the DOS prompt at seemingly random times. I guess there's nothing else for me to do except hope that somewhere I can get my hands on the no-CD crack, which I think will be VERY …

Well, I'll be! After doing a search on Google Groups, I found several references to their "copy protection", which isn't really much. Apparently, the "copy protection" is not that it looked for an original disc but that it made sure that you were playing from a CD. Supposedly, if it thought that you …

Are you telling the truth on that or are you trying to trap me? ;) I've never heard that one before. I suppose that it's possible, but I was using my original CD from the beginning. I had to dump it to the hard drive to try out the DOS32A, but it didn't make the propblem any better or worse. In fact …

Now, HERE'S an intersting little twist! I selected a spell from the map, then pressed the button to activate it on that particular button. Magic Carpet existed WHEN I PRESSED THE BUTTON ON THE JOYSTICK! Something's definitely amiss here. For whatever reason, MC keeps getting a Shift-Q sent to it …

No difference. I got farther when I first fired it up, but something is still sending a Shift-Q. The next time it exited as soon as I entered the spell/map area. The same does load much faster with DOS32A, but there is definitely still a problem.

I do plan on doing that, but I need to figure out how to get it set up within the DOSBox environment. (Just so the "RTFM" zombies don't start harping, I have it downloaded but I haven't tried to install it yet.) Hopefully, it will solve all and I can enjoy this game once again in its entirety.

as the soundblaster is by default on irq 7 (it might benefitial to try the cvs) you could also try setting the irq of the soundblaster to 5. Fortunately, I'm not the average Joe User :cool: , so that was one of the first things that I tried. I also tried adjusting DOSBox' RAM settings as well to no …

Yes, I love this game, damn it. That's why I keep posting about it. :) The going belief about MC is that it would crash when trying to switch from the play mode to map/spell mode. Yes, that's true; however, I just had it crash while selecting a spell by pressing the associated number key. What's odd …

"Magic Carpet" ran just fine for me on my AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz system after I increased the DOSBox cycles to maximum (Ctrl-F12) and frameskip to just a hair below max (Ctrl-F8 ). Now, granted, I wouldn't try running it in VESA mode with this system, but the speed in standard VGA resolution was perfect …

...I choose only SoundBlaster and SoundBlaster FM. (I accidentally posted this in the VDMSound forum :blush: , so I'll report it here where it belongs.) If I choose anything other than SoundBlaster and SoundBlaster FM - it doesn't matter what, apparently - the digital audio goes away. I even bumped …

I have been able to get Magic Carpet to work under Windows 2000 using the SoundBlaster and SB FM combination as well, but it's just not the same without directional audio and general MIDI. It just doesn't feel right. Oh, well. I tried a few different combinations and came up with the following. …

:shocked: :blush: My apologies to everyone. The post that follows is what I experienced in DOSBox, not VDMSound. I didn't realize that until too late. I found the threat while in the DOSBox forum and after doing a search. I didn't realize that the search encompassed the entirety of the Vogons system …