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First post, by typh0id

Posted on 2018-02-28, 12:55

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Greetings,

Forgive me if I'm retreading old ground (I did a search but the keywords are all pretty generic and nothing helpful to me jumped out of the results), but I am trying to run Legend of the Red Dragon (4.07) locally in DOSBox and it is giving me troubles.

I've tried running LOCAL.BAT and LORD.EXE /L (which I recall being the way to run it locally back in the day) but in all cases I get: INTERNAL ERROR #38019 CANNOT CONTINUE.

Am I missing something obvious or does LORD not run in DOSBox? I would think that running it locally wouldn't require anything special out of DOSBox, but then, I certainly don't know everything.

Anyway, thanks for any help anyone can give me with this. I spent countless hours as a teenager playing and modding this game and would love to revisit it.

Reply 1 of 8, by typh0id

Posted on 2018-02-28, 13:50

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UPDATE: I CAN get LORD 3.55 to run just fine. So I'm not at all sure what the difference is for 4.07.

Reply 2 of 8, by Qbix

Posted on 2018-02-28, 14:16

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I recall fixing this in the current SVN.

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Reply 3 of 8, by typh0id

Posted on 2018-02-28, 14:39

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Qbix wrote:
I recall fixing this in the current SVN.

So it doesn't work in vanilla DOSBox?

Reply 4 of 8, by DosFreak

Posted on 2018-02-28, 14:58

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It does but not in 0.74. You'll need to use the latest SVN or at least later than the below date.

Found this in the changelog

2011-01-16 20:49 qbix79

* [r3667] include/dos_system.h, src/dos/drive_local.cpp: Add dummy
support for openmode 4. Legend Of the Red Dragon 4.07 uses this.

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Reply 5 of 8, by typh0id

Posted on 2018-02-28, 19:36

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DosFreak wrote:
It does but not in 0.74. You'll need to use the latest SVN or at least later than the below date.]

I may just stick with 3.55. I have to admit in all the years I've been tinkering with DOSBox, I've never ventured into SVN territory. I know basically nothing about them.

Reply 6 of 8, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2018-02-28, 22:43

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Nothing much to know. In most ways, it's a plug and play replacement, except with a few more features and bug fixes. Why not install a copy alongside and test a few DOS programs you normally run?

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Reply 7 of 8, by typh0id

Posted on 2018-03-01, 00:03

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Qbix wrote:
I recall fixing this in the current SVN.

Please forgive my ignorance, but which SVN is the "current SVN?"

Reply 8 of 8, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2018-03-01, 00:54

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As of this post, r4085 is the latest commit. You should run an SVN build that is checked out and built at a point close to this release.

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