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Armored Fist

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First post, by Srecko

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I can't get my version running in any Dosbox version (0.60,0.61 and latest CVS), but it runs fine on P233.
In dosbox it exits to prompt and displays strange characters.
Can anyone confirm this because i remember people were talking about it being runable (before 0.61 release at least).

Reply 1 of 2, by robertmo

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This game was working in cvses before 0.61
Later it was working only with core dynamic and full (also in 0.61)
Later only with dynamic
Later doesn't work at all

Notice that those strange characters are normal letters wrongly displayed (the shell works, you can type there, run other games, and type "cls" to make it readable again)

Also there were two cvses (29.02.2004 and 7.03.2004) that showed these characters correctly:

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Reply 2 of 2, by Srecko

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Found it. It got broken on January 25. when harekiet added protected mode exceptions for cli/sti/popf. (files: prefix_66.h and prefix_none.h).
I remember some other games were also broken with that.

Characters are shown incorrectly because game forgets to leave 320x200 mode.