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Getting Discworld II to run in dosbox

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First post, by Judder

Posted on 2005-02-13, 22:56

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Hi, I'm having problems getting discworld II to run in dosbox. I have read the dosbox newbie guide and done all that it tells me ... And it comes up with that it must be run with/in win32.

As you might gather from having to read the newbie guide, I'm not too technically inclined. What is win32 (i know that sounds like a stupid question) and how would i get discworld II running in dosbox with win32?

Thanks for any help 😀

Reply 1 of 1, by MiniMax

Posted on 2005-02-13, 23:59

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Hi Judder - Win32 basically means Win95 or later. In between old MS-DOS and Windows 95/98/NT/ME.... there was Windows 3.x, which was a 16-bit operating system - know as Win16.

More specifically, the Win32 API (Application Programmers Interface) is a set of library routines that Microsoft gaurantees to always be present in their Win32 operating system. This means that programmers do not need to worry if the program will run on Win9x, WinNT or WinXP since they all have that Win32 API.

That you get such an error message means that you somehow tries to run a Windows program in DOSBox 😀 Not good.

Please write exactly what you do when this error pops up.

Edit: Go read this words of wizdom first:

Discworld does not load
Discworld I & II Problem in ENG and GER

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