How do you launch the game? What filename?

if I were to guess they use shift inside a bat file.
This should work in the next version of DOSBox

I did the following

1mount c C:\<br>cd dino3d<br>dino3d.bat.[code].
2
3That's how it's supposed to run.

I'll see what that batch file has in it. I'll get back to all of you. O and thanx a lot for checking up on this post!

^v^

Qbix wrote:

if I were to guess they use shift inside a bat file.
This should work in the next version of DOSBox

Hi, I'm trying to run a similar game from the same developer: "3D Body Adventure" and it does seem to rely heavily upon batch scripting, for both installation and running. Here is the batch file which supposed to run it:

1@echo off
2rem usage: GUFHADAM [-v] [-clean] [-p]
3rem The -p is only used within Windows to pause the end screen.
4rem If -v is given, user can hit Ctrl-PrintScreen to dump the screen to a file.
5rem If -clean is given, no TSRs will be loaded before running ka.
6C:
7cd C:\GUFHADAM
8if "%1"=="-CLEAN" goto clean
9if "%1"=="-clean" goto clean
10rem rem power.exe not detected
11if "%1"=="-V" goto vgacapt
12if "%1"=="-v" goto vgacapt
13moustest
14if errorlevel 1 goto nomouse
15rem no special tsrs needed
16rem No special sound device
17ka -520k kav.exe -lC:\GUFHADAM -rD:\3DBODY -fC:\GUFHADAM
18if errorlevel 1 goto bottom
19rem don't clear the screen for errors...
20rem no special tsr cleanup needed
21goto end
22:nomouse
23mouse
24rem no special tsrs needed
25rem No special sound device
26ka -520k kav.exe -lC:\GUFHADAM -rD:\3DBODY -fC:\GUFHADAM
27if errorlevel 1 goto bottom
28rem don't clear the screen for errors...
29rem no special tsr cleanup needed
30mouse /u >nul
31goto end
32:vgacapt
33moustest
34if errorlevel 1 goto vnomouse
35rem no special tsrs needed
36rem No special sound device
37vgacapt ka -520k kav.exe -lC:\GUFHADAM -rD:\3DBODY -fC:\GUFHADAM
38if errorlevel 1 goto bottom
39rem don't clear the screen for errors...
40rem no special tsr cleanup needed
41goto end
42:vnomouse
43mouse
44rem no special tsrs needed
45rem No special sound device
46vgacapt ka -520k kav.exe -lC:\GUFHADAM -rD:\3DBODY -fC:\GUFHADAM
47if errorlevel 1 goto bottom
48rem don't clear the screen for errors...
49rem no special tsr cleanup needed
50mouse /u >nul
51goto end
52:clean
53ka -520k kav.exe -lC:\GUFHADAM -rD:\3DBODY -fC:\GUFHADAM
54if errorlevel 1 goto bottom
55rem don't clear the screen for errors...
56:end
57rem No special sound device cleanup
58echo.
59echo  ֹֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽ»
60echo  ÷              Thank you for using 3-D Body Adventure.                    ÷

61echo  ÷                                                                         ÷
62echo  ÷       Try these other great new products from Knowledge Adventure       ÷
63echo  ÷                         and Mirage Multimedia                           ÷
64echo  ָֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽ¼
65echo.
66echo                         ֹֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽ»
67echo                         ÷   KNOWLEDGE ADVENTURE     ÷
68echo                         ÷   DINOSAUR ADVENTURE      ÷
69echo                         ÷   UNDERSEA ADVENTURE      ÷
70echo                         ÷   MAGIC THEATRE           ÷
71echo                         ÷   BUG ADVENTURE           ÷
72echo                         ָֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽ¼
73echo.
74echo.
75echo.
76echo.
77:bottom
78if not "%1"=="-p" goto last
79	echo Press a key to return to Windows...
80	pause > nul
81:last
82rem just end.

Running only:

1ka -520k kav.exe -lC:\GUFHADAM -rD:\3DBODY -fC:\GUFHADAM

Gives the same error ( "Recursive launch of launch module. This should not happen." ), but when I'm running:

1kav.exe -lC:\GUFHADAM -rD:\3DBODY -fC:\GUFHADAM

It seem to work although I have not tested the game thoroughly.

By the way, I'm using official 0.70 (haven't tried CVS yet) and all directories have been mounted properly (CD mounted as real CD drive including all possible parameters except LABEL).
Any advice?

Thanks,
Og

that mousecheck could cause problems

Heh, I ran into this same problem. I was pretty bummed, I hadn't played the game in 10 years and I really wanted to play it again. I played around with it for far too long and found a way to at least get into the game.

Og's tip works on 3D dinosaur too, but not that well.

Go into c:\dino3d then run "kav -lC:\ -rD:\DINO3D -fC:\\DINO3D" . It doesn't work very well, I can't get into some of the things and there's no going back to the main menu, but at least it's something. Make sure you set the cpu cycles to at least 6000 or the videos will skip and freeze. Hopefully the next dosbox release will be more compatible with it, but this should tie us over for now.

Chris

I am having the same problem in 3D Dinosaur adventure AND in 3D Body Adventure, it seems its a problem of the Knowledge adventure engine.

You can download 3d body adventure from here http://files.chatnfiles.com/Quick%20Shot%20Ar … GAMES4/BODYADV/

can anybody check whats going on, please?

PD: Both games run in windows, but without sound of course, thats why I need dos emulation.

Tried VDMSound?

game wants sanity checks on the some dos call.
Will probably add them to the cvs. So wait for 0.71

Yes, i tried vdmsound but it was very slow. I tried another version that let you config it but the interface didnt work at all, so thats why I decided to try it on dosbox. Im using a VIA AC97, its supposed to emulate sound blaster 16 and legacy drivers (I turned on the sb16 option from the bios setup) but anyway it doesn't seem to be effective. Thanks anyway.

ok, ill wait for the next release then, thanks Qbix.

I figured it out.

Rename the KAV.PGM file to KAV.EXE

then have your dosbox launch that. it will run perfect.

On a side note, mount the parent directory as the C: so that the game is located in C:\AMERICA, or your sound settings won't work. =) Enjoy!

Thank you all! It finally seems to work in DOSBOX 0.71 or by renaming the file. Thanks again! =)