Summary

[b]I am trying to run "Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space",
("B.A.R.I.S." or BARIS), the CD version, in DosBox-0.61 on Windows XP. I
always get to play it up to the point in which it tries to play a
video, when it always stops working.[/b]

Description

I am trying to run the CD version. So right away I have this question:

ARE THE FOLKS HERE ON VOGON, THE ONES THAT RUN BARIS, ARE
THEY ALL RUNNING THE DOWNLOADED VERSION?
IS IT THAT THE CD VERSION DOESN'T REALLY RUN IN DOSBOX?

And I have another question

I SEE THE NOTE THAT DOSBOX DOES NOT SUPPORT 16 BIT
GRAPHICS.
THIS VIDEO CARD IS 16 bit, BUT I DON"T KNOW IF THE BARIS CD IS
FORCING 16 BITS. AFTER ALL, OTHER FOLKS HERE SAY THEY PLAY
THE PRODUCT.

Well, I have the CD in the boxed product, and it is marked

[quote]Copyright 1993 Interplay Productions[/quote]

and

[quote]The "Enhanced", "Cinematic", "Multimedia" "ROM" for DOS.[/quote]

(By the way, I've tried to run it directly in Windows XP, and it
gets a "Divide Error". Dosbox got past and eliminated that
problem.)

Under DOSBOX, it does run through its music and slide show and
onscreen graphics. The sound ran nicely, the CD tracks, and the
.WAV files.

All is okay up to the screen in which one of the countries shows
a video. This is either "My country is launching a satellite" or
the announcement that "the other country has orbited a
satellite". I have tried it in full screen, and as a windowed
part of the desktop. It does not matter whether

1) the video is in the fullscreen (Alt-Enter) mode with nothing
else on the screen, or
2) in Fullscreen mode with some graphics framing it, or
3) in a window on the Windows XP Desktop.

Here are the symptoms.

The screen gives a shot of Mission Control (a drawing, not a
photo) framing the video and I get the idea that a countdown is
starting, but the video of the rocket launch (that I've heard of)
never starts. And the whole thing hangs.

What I see, often, is that the top of the video starts its first
frame, and then the screen goes black.

(I get a little static in the upper left corder of the video
section of the screen, and if I fiddle with keys, I may get
another single burst of static, as if a single frame more of
video had tried to display. Then it's frozen.)

When I have managed to get back to the desktop while this is
happening, Dosbox's frame does not refresh and is not responsive
(like a click on the big red X in the upper right does not even
invert the X's colors). Task Manager says that dosbox.exe is
eating up something like 97% of the CPU. I can kill it rather
easily with Task Manager.

HERE IS MY SYSTEM.

Compag Presario
System Manufacturer Compaq
System Model DSDT
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 11 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel ~1195 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Compaq 686P9 v1.03, 10/18/2001
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)"
Total Physical Memory 256.50 MB
Available Physical Memory 54.52 MB
Total Virtual Memory 879.23 MB
Available Virtual Memory 474.50 MB
Page File Space 624.81 MB

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 Build 2600

(I don't know the processor or the motherboard, but if necessary I
will open the box and try to find out.)

THE VIDEO BOARD.
Name Intel(R) 82815 Graphics Controller
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1132&SUBSYS_00820E11&REV_04\3&61AAA01&0&10
Adapter Type Intel(R) 82815, Intel Corporation compatible
Adapter Description Intel(R) 82815 Graphics Controller
Adapter RAM 4.00 MB (4,194,304 bytes)
Installed Drivers i81xdnt5.dll
Driver Version 6.13.01.2872
INF File oem0.inf (i81x section)
Color Planes 1
Color Table Entries 65536
Resolution 1152 x 864 x 60 hertz
Bits/Pixel 16
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\i81xnt5.sys (6.13.01.2872 , 154.43 KB (158,140 bytes), 10/5/2003 12:32 AM)

There is no CDROM problem that I am aware of.

The CD player, drive E:, is a DVD drive. I also have a CD burner as drive F:, but I haven't tried it yet (just thought of it).

HERE IS WHAT I HAVE TRIED

I have tried this by installing on NTFS with the CD, and tried it, and then
tried installing on a FAT32 partition with the CD and tried it,.

I have disabled the sound completely, in DosBox and tried it,.

Then I disabled the sound completely, in the SETUP.EXE in \BARIS and tried it,.

I made certain that dosbox's modem was off, and that BARIS was not in modem, multiplayer mode.

Made sure there are no autoexec statements I know off (I use D-Fend a lot.)

I tried setting "Scale" to "None" from "normal2x" and back, trying it both ways.

I tried running the video while CPU Cycles was 25,000.
Then tried it at 501 cycles.
And otherwise tried 2,500.
(I even tried 1 CPU cycle, but that didn't go anywhere.)

I tried it at zero Frames Skipped, and at 10 FS.

I tried the "doublebuffer" and "fullfixed" flags.

I tried making sure the CDROM was rotating *before* the video
started (by accessing it with Explorer and then running the video while the CD was still spinning).

I have searched as much as I could for BARIS and "Buzz Aldrin's
Race Into Space" and "XP" through the Forums and on Google and
the net. The manufacturers don't seem to be out there any more. I found a mention of the problems on "NTcompatible" -- solution was "run dosbox".

I *think* I have read the README. I went all through "DosBox
Guides", and "DosBox General", and read the "Game X Doesn't Work"
and "Newbies Guide" and "Follow These Guidelines" posts.

Here is my conf file.

[Extra]
Setup=D:\BARIS\SETUP.EXE
Exe=D:\BARIS\BARIS.EXE 8 2
exit=0
Loadhigh=0
Tab=4
OverrideMount=0
Overridegamestart=0
autoexec=
CustomSettings=
NrOfMounts=2
0=D:\BARIS;Drive;C;true;
1=E:\;CDROM;E;true;BARIS
[sdl]
XfullscreenX=false
fulldouble=true
fullwidth=0
fullheight=0
output=surface
hwscale=1.00
autolock=false
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
fullfixed=true
[dosbox]
language=
machine=auto
memsize=32
[render]
frameskip=0
snapdir=snaps
aspect=false
scaler=normal2x
[cpu]
core=normal
cycles=2500
cycleup=500
cycledown=500
[mixer]
nosound=true
rate=22050
wavedir=waves
blocksize=2048
[midi]
mpu401=false
device=default
config=
[sblaster]
sblaster=false
base=220
irq=7
dma=1
sbrate=22050
adlib=false
adlibrate=22050
adlibmode=adlib
cms=false
cmsrate=22050
[gus]
gus=false
rate=22050
base=240
irq1=5
irq2=5
dma1=3
dma2=3
ultradir=C:\ULTRADIR
[speaker]
pcspeaker=false
pcrate=22050
tandy=false
tandyrate=22050
disney=false
[dos]
xms=true
ems=true
[modem]
modem=false
listenport=23
comport=1

So, I am still head scratching.

Can I get the CD to run? Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks for reading this,
Tom TAC