A bells rings in my head. Have you tried setting EMS=False inside dosbox.conf?

Cool, that worked. Unfortunately, I get an error message telling me that it can't open up a file from the CD (and yes, I mounted my CD drive). It begins to load just fine, and then boom, it crashes with that message.

Could this possibly be related to an error message I received earlier outside of DOSBox saying that my CD-ROM drive is reading CDs "faster than is possible?"

Thanks,

Robert Aronson (Shoal)

are you using the switches "-t cdrom -ioctl" ?

I actually use a frontend called D-Fend. I prefer its profile-saving ability, and menus and checkboxes are much easier than a command line.

What are the exact functions of "-t cdrom -ioctl" so I might find them in D-Fend?

EDIT: I tried the command line "e:\>wc3 -t cdrom -ioctl", but there's no difference. It still can't read the CD.

Thanks,

Robert Aronson (Shoal)

When trying to run Privateer, I get this error message:

1Protected mode driver is not responding to EMS function calls.
2Make sure your EMS driver is not configured with the NOEMS option.
3If it is, replace the option "NOEMS" with "RAM".

Any ideas? And please, if you give me command line options, tell me what they do.

Thanks,

Robert Aronson (Shoal)

Search the forums. This has been answered quite frequently.

Add "ems=false" to the [dos] section of your dosbox.conf.

Tried that already. I get this error message:

1'Memory: Original  Current     Used
2'NEAR       29516    28986      530
3'FAR       376252   341020    35232
4'HIGH     3456384  3495840   -39456
5
6Fatal error.
7
8Error code: D002-FFFF
9Program halted by code.
10JEMM unloaded.

Thanks,

Robert Aronson (Shoal)

I managed to get the game running by reconfiguring the sound card. I get music, but no speech or sound effects.

Hell, I don't even get the option of sound by itself; I only get the options "music" and "speech".

Thanks,

Robert Aronson (Shoal)

*** Merging related topics ***

Wha--? Merged with what? To where?

Thanks,

Robert Aronson (Shoal)

It won't let me get past the joystick calibration, any thoughts on how to turn that off? I got the game to at least get to that point though

remove your joystick

I have no joystick plugged in, just KB and mouse. How do I disable Dosbox's joystick support?

Is DOSBox's console window reporting that it detects a joystick? If not, you're screwed. If it does, though, then it means you have a joystick driver installed in Windows and you need to remove it.

In the Mac OS X version of dosbox, I am trying to get Privateer to run. Found the EMS fix, did that. Now, instead of showing that EMS error message, it just crashes me out of dosbox. The error printed to my console is:

Exit to error: Illegal descriptor type 0 for int E

I've played around with all the audio settings, to no avail.

well if you always get it regardless of the soundsettings in privateer then there is a good change that there is an endian bug in dosbox somewhere. Those aren't easy to find unless you have some programming experience

I'm also running OS X (10.4.1) and I have the same problem. Is there a listing of DosBox's error messages and their respective meanings? Of course, it might be specific to the OS X port.

there is nothing special in the port that could expain the behaviour.
If one of you can compile code themself then you can try the following:
--enable-debug=heavy
should be added to configure (./configure --enable-debug=heavy)

start the restulting dosbox (can be found in src )
mount your stuff and go the wingcommander directory
start the game. press pause. Go to the other window. press return. type "heavylog". press enter
press f5
wait till game crashes dosboox. then there will be a DOSBOX_INT_CD.TXT
compress it really well and try sending it to us.

Okay, I ran configure with the heavy debug option, and I compiled DOSBox. Could you give me a more detailed explanation of what to do after that, though? In my Terminal window, the debug console looks completely scrambled, as if formatted incorrectly, and it won't take any input from the keyboard, even when I press return first.