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First post, by Arantor

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Hi there,
I've had trouble with S.C.Out from Kalisto.

Basically, after a few minutes (varies between 5-15) of playing, the game will either hang and just sit there, or it will crash out with an illegal instruction - not a Windows illegal instruction, but DosBox reports an illegal instruction and closes it down.

Now I'm trying to post it, it won't crash with the error so I can quote it. But it looks like GPR 5, illegal instruction 7 or something. The game shouldn't use extended memory, by the way, the game apparently runs on a 286 without going above 640K.

Don't think it'll change too much but here's the info requested for help:

Motherboard: Some weird board that I can't figure out from the manual.
Processor type and speed: AMD Sempron 2200+
Amount and type of RAM: 512MB DDR RAM
Video board: nVidia GeForce IV 440 MX with 64MB
Sound board: SB Audigy 2 Pro
Operating system: Win98 SE
Game name: S.C.Out from Kalisto
Reproducibility of problem: Hangs/crashes after 5-15 minutes in most cases. Not every time, but near enough.
Sound mode: Disabled (game does have sound but it's very irritating)
Video mode: surface, not fullscreen, not stretched
Version of emulator: 0.65 (profile created via D-Fend 2.0.62 build 42)

Steps already attempted to solve the problem: Well, nothing in the ReadMe seems to be obvious to the solution of this problem; it seems to be a bug in the original code, but I never remember it being buggy on my 386 years ago...

If anyone can give me any pointers, please let me know!

Many thanks,
Pete