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First post, by Eviladam

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I have downloaded the latest version of dosbox
and when I try to startup blood and I get this
"Dos\4gw fatal error (1004): syntax is Dos4gw<executable.xxx>"

Reply 1 of 14, by franpa

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did you run blood.exe in dosbox or dos4gw.exe?

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Reply 2 of 14, by Eviladam

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I used dos4gw

Reply 3 of 14, by franpa

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so is problem fixed? if not then use blood.exe to play the game and setup.exe to setup the sound and resoloution etc.

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Reply 4 of 14, by Eviladam

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Well I recently downloaded a frontend for it and It wont work either.

Reply 5 of 14, by Eviladam

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and I tried blood exe too

Reply 6 of 14, by wd

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Does it display the message above when running blood.exe??
Must be a corrupt installation then.

Reply 7 of 14, by franpa

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make sure you setup the sound etc. before playing.... run setup.exe when in dosbox to set the sound.

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Reply 8 of 14, by Eviladam

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Well I just fixed the problem by telling it the sound card is "none"
because my sound cards irq is freeking 19 and blood only goes high as 15
so I could play it but I only can listen to music as I play.

Reply 10 of 14, by franpa

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try irq 5 and/or 1rq 7 for soundblaster 16 (a330 mpu-401 for music)

if it doesnt work post back...

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Reply 11 of 14, by Eviladam

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The sound card I have is a soundblaster live 24 bit will that work?

Reply 12 of 14, by DosFreak

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DOS games in XP don't care what kind of sound card you have. For DOS games Windows XP emulates a SoundBlaster card. If you configure your DOS games to use any IRQ other than 5 then they will not work.

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Reply 13 of 14, by Eviladam

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Thanks for the info,Caleb's voice scared my dog Right out of the room 😁 as in it works!

Reply 14 of 14, by franpa

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to clarify... windows xp simulates an soundblaster for dosgames.

and dosbox emulates a soundblaster 16 for dosgames.

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