Doesn't look too good 🙁

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/comp_list.php?s … =Inner%20Worlds

DOSBox version: 0.62 (broken)

Note: (2004-10-24 06:40) dragonmaster

With sound it shows a screen with a castle and a red sky and freezes then, without sound it doesnt even start.

I never managed to get this one running in Dosbox, and unfortunately, there was never a Windows version. (The closest we had was an icon that exited to DOS and ran it). If I recall correctly, it does run under Virtual PC. You might want to download a trial of that and see.

Yeah, it looks it will not run with DOSBox at all.
I checked versions 0.62 and 0.63 with different settings, VDMSound also - no success. I've just managed to run it under Windows ME - works OK.

I used to play shareware version of Inner Worlds, but now they made it freeware. It's a pity they didn't release any patches for XP users.

Well - I DID get "Inner Worlds" to run with DOSBox 0.63 - but something is terrible wrong with the emulated screen.

First I downloaded the freeware version from Home of the Underdogs (size = 10,243,653 bytes, MD5 digest = fae3ad9796ef0857ade9333c165a43bd).

According to the README.TXT, the game is runnable directly from the CD-ROM:

README.TXT wrote:

C:\> MKDIR C:\IW
C:\> CD IW
C:\IW> D:\IW

so I created a "H:\Temp\InnerWorlds\C\IW" and a "H:\Temp\InnerWorlds\D" directory. I unpacked the game into ""H:\Temp\InnerWorlds\D" and started DOSBox with this configuration:

1[autoexec]
2mount C "H:\Temp\InnerWorlds\C"
3mount D "H:\Temp\InnerWorlds\D" -t cdrom
4
5C:
6cd IW
7D:\IW

And the game hung!

I played around and discovered that the Gravis UltraSound detection routines in the game somehow do not work correctly (or maybe DOSBox is not working correctly), so I had to disable GUS in DOSBox.

Anyway, after having deleted the games local configuration (kept in C:\IW\IW.CFG) in order to force the detection routines to run, I ended up with this DOSBox config:

1[cpu]
2cycles=7000
3
4[gus]
5gus=false
6
7[autoexec]
8mount C "H:\Temp\InnerWorlds\C"
9mount D "H:\Temp\InnerWorlds\D" -t cdrom
10
11C:
12cd IW
13D:\IW

With this, the game start, I get sound, but after the intro ends, the screen is all jumpled up. I tried various scalers, outputs (surface, overlay, ddraw), I tried different CPU cores, but nothing seems to affect the graphics.

So that is the status today....

Thank you for the suggestions, guys. So, it's kind of hopeless now, isn't it? Perhaps it will work with a future version of DOSBox...

(I've seen it work on a PC running Windows '98 with EMS enabled -- the last two screens posted by MiniMax are the only ones that look right.)

Canthlian, do you mean 'Microsoft Virtual PC' (2004)? I just thought I should check because, with my luck, I'll probably end up downloading some other stuff.

Yup. That's the one. Requires a Win98 install CD or DOS install disks, and a fairly fast processor, but it's good for a fair number of old DOS games.

Thanks. I'll let you know how it went. (If it's okay with you, of course.)