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Wooden Ships and Iron Men Won't start

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First post, by dudalb

Posted on 2009-12-12, 06:39

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When using DoxBox 0.73, the Avalon Hill DOS game Wooden Ships and Iron Men does not start.
What happens is I get a message from DOSBOX saying "Using CHipset Instructions" and then the sound starts fine, but no graphics whatsoever. The Screen stays black.
What is odd is that when I use DOSBOX 0.72 it works fine.
Is there some change I can make to DOS BOX 0.73 to correct this so I only have to deal with one version of DosBOX. I can run the game fine with Dosbox 72 but am curious as to what is going on and if it can be adjusted to run on 73.
Thanks.

Reply 1 of 1, by ripsaw8080

Posted on 2009-12-12, 07:54

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Appears to work OK with machine=svga_et4000 and machine=svga_paradise in the DOSBox conf file. With machine=svga_s3, run the game like "wsim /v" to force VESA. Might be interesting to know if it's correctly detecting and then using the S3 chipset.

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