Try to disable ems and xms, or only one of them (this might be
enough "change of memory model" 😉 ).
Also you could try to disable sound and things like that, or use loadfix
(odd but true...)

have tried it but it still gives me a Abnormal Program Termination 😖

Then I guess that this game is simply not working on DOSBOX... if u tampered with memory and sound options and got nothing, then it won't work...
although I am not a dosbox expert, I prefer real dos machines 😁

Well you could try to boot some msdos/freedos using the disk image
support, maybe it works then. Can be quite non-trivial though.

If the dosbox team could look into this, that would be great 😀

I have the same problem. I tried to install it on Qemu running Windows 95 but got similar issues. This game is one mean bitch to run. Nearly any game that won't run in DOSBOX will run in Qemu but this one gives the exact same errors. Theboss, where did you get the iso ?

it's safe to assume that the game is freeware red_avatar ?

It's by Psygnosis - it may be. It's 13 years old though, and only came on CD so might not be easy to find.

TheBoss said that he got it unopened, not downloaded an ISO. I have this CD and tried it in DOSBox -- .65, CVS, gulikoza's build and ykhwong's. All four crash on the setup and the game's executable with:

Exit to error: Pagefault didn't correct table.

VDMS gives:

Error TNT.20074: Can't use -REALBREAK under this version of DPMI

Under VirtualPC in MS DOS:

Abnormal program termination: Memory fault
CS:EIP = 000Ch:0006C9C5h

That means it's very very incompatible. I do remember that this game was even a bitch to get running back in 1993.

Pharlap is generally more tricky, try with a debugger-enabled version
and keep an eye on open failures. Also be sure that some directory
is mounted as c: as it might store a swap file there.
And, as already said, always play with the core and ems/xms settings.

I played with those settings quite a lot 😜 with little to no result. I managed to get install.exe working (you're supposed to type install c:\mc or something like that). Maybe the actual exe needs something like that too.

I didn't have too much trouble with the installation, just the setup and the main executable. I tried to call a list of parameters or switches, but could find nothing.

Yep, seems like the programmers had a lot of fun with this one. Good thing it's a pretty crap game.

If anyone cares for the last lines from a debug build before it crashes:

91840800: DOSMISC:DOS:65:Extended country information call 6507
91840927: FILES:file open command 0 file C:\MC\SETUP.EXE
91852879: DOSMISC:DOS:65:Extended country information call 6507
91856704: BIOS:INT15:Unknown call 2403
91856793: DOSMISC:DOS:Multiplex Unhandled call 160A
91856800: DOSMISC:DOS:Multiplex Unhandled call 1600
91856807: DOSMISC:DOS:Multiplex Unhandled call 4680
91856859: DOSMISC:DOS:Multiplex Unhandled call ED00
91856867: DOSMISC:DOS:Multiplex Unhandled call ED00
91856875: DOSMISC:DOS:Multiplex Unhandled call ED00
91856883: DOSMISC:DOS:Multiplex Unhandled call ED00
91856891: BIOS:INT15:Unknown call BF02
91856903: DOSMISC:DOS:Multiplex Unhandled call A1FE
91856915: DOSMISC:DOS:Multiplex Unhandled call FBA1
91856924: DOSMISC:DOS:Multiplex Unhandled call F100
91856954: DOSMISC:DOS:Multiplex Unhandled call 4300
91856981: FILES:file open command 0 file EMMXXXX0
91857007: FILES:file open command 0 file 386MAX$$
91857036: FILES:file open command 0 file $MMXXXX0
91857059: FILES:file open command 0 file QEMM386$
91857082: FILES:file open command 0 file EMMQXXX0
91857125: DOSMISC:DOS:Multiplex Unhandled call 1687
91857155: DOSMISC:DOS:Multiplex Unhandled call ED00
91857163: DOSMISC:DOS:Multiplex Unhandled call ED00
91857418: FILES:Special file open command 80 file C:\MC\SETUP.EXE
91887312: KEYBOARD:Port 64 write with val 255
91889003: BIOS:INT15:Function 0x88 Remaining 3C00 kb
91889428: BIOS:INT15:Function 0x88 Remaining 3C00 kb
91889635: KEYBOARD:Port 64 write with val 255
98701502: FILES:file open command 0 file setup.exe
98936739: PAGING:NP Table
98936739: PAGING:PageFault at A5F66990 type [0:0] queue 1
98946828: KEYBOARD:Port 64 write with val 255
98946912: PAGING:Left PageFault for a5f66990 queue 0
98946912: SBLASTER:DSP:Reset

After that, DosBOX crashes...
I wasn't aware DOS had paging even...

Have you tried older versions of dosbox because that may work. If that does not work you can always try out that retro pc emulator.

Dos doesn't have paging, the x86 has 😉
Nonpresent page table is quite bad but can be just anything...

wd:
I meant I didn't know DOS supported it (I always figured DOS accessed memory through physical addresses not virtual addresses... guess I have some reading to do)

Still dos doesn't really have to do anything with paging, it doesn't use
it or prevent it or something. If you wanted to use it you had to switch
to pmode (mostly using some existing extenders) and enable paging.

The reason why extenders provide paging is to make memory handling
easier for programs, they just allocate how much they want without
caring how much memory is in the system.