Works perfectly well here in both DOSBox versions. How are you installing the game?

i'm not installing it, am i supposed to?

What I'm doing is just running it from the disk or just copying the contents to the hard drive. Works fine until I have to select my sound then i get a black screen and get all these Illegal Reads.

Is there someway I need to set this game up or install it?

"Is there someway I need to set this game up or install it?"

The same way you'd install it on a real dos computer. Put the disk/cdrom in, go to the disk/cdrom drive, run the installer (often INSTALL.EXE, SETUP.EXE). Make sure you have mounted a C drive before running the installer. When playing afterwards, use the same mountings.

Read my 60 Seconds Guide to DOSBox (and don't just read it - follow it too).

If that doesn't help, come back with details on how you mounted your C and D drives, how you did the install, how you configured sound, music etc.

Reading the aptly named README file will be a good idea too.

Thank you! I got it to work, I was mounting my CD-ROM drive as E and not D

Thanks

Magic Carpet was one of those games that ran directly from the CD. There was not a setup or install program to run. It would create a Carpet.CD folder on your hard drive for save games and settings, but the executable itself was on the CD. I have played it by several methods such as just mounting the physical CD as D:, copying the files from the CD to my hard drive and mounting it as D: with the -t cdrom switch, or using imgmount on an iso.