Hmm... Looking over my post, I'm thinking I might have left out some important info.

I'm running on Linux.

I've configured the sound in 11th Guest as follows:

MIDI music: Creative Labs Sound Blaster or 100% compatible
Digital audio: Gravis UltraSound

I had previously set both sound devices to be sound blasters and that didn't work, so now I have the configuration for two different devices (also not working).

The version of DOS/4GW that I'm running is 1.97

Here's a copy of my dosbox.conf file:

1[cpu]
2core=dynamic
3cycles=9000
4
5[autoexec]
6@echo off
7echo Mounting "/home/rick/Emulation/DosGames/11thHour" as harddisk drive C.
8mount C "/home/rick/Emulation/DosGames/11thHour" -freesize 500
9echo Mounting "/home/rick/Emulation/DosGames/11thHour/disk1.iso" as CDROM drive D.
10imgmount D "/home/rick/Emulation/DosGames/11thHour/disk1.iso" -t iso
11echo Mounting "/home/rick/Emulation/DosGames/11thHour/disk2.iso" as CDROM drive E.
12imgmount E "/home/rick/Emulation/DosGames/11thHour/disk2.iso" -t iso
13echo Mounting "/home/rick/Emulation/DosGames/11thHour/disk3.iso" as CDROM drive F.
14imgmount F "/home/rick/Emulation/DosGames/11thHour/disk3.iso" -t iso
15echo Mounting "/home/rick/Emulation/DosGames/11thHour/disk4.iso" as CDROM drive G.
16imgmount G "/home/rick/Emulation/DosGames/11thHour/disk4.iso" -t iso
17
18C:
19
20[sdl]
21fulldouble=false
22fullfixed=false
23fullresolution=0x0
24output=surface
25
26[render]
27aspect=false
28scaler=advmame3x

As you can see, I'm attempting to mount all four CDs. I don't know if that will end up working in the game or not. If I comment out disks 2-4, it doesn't change anything.

Again, thanks for any help.

Rick

1. Was disk 1 mounted as D when you installed?
2. I don't think DOSBox 0.60 had VESA support, so you might try disabling VESA in the game or using a CVS build of DOSBox
3. You might also try using DOS32A in place of DOS4GW

uhm dynamic core is beta.
so don't use it when reporting problems. it might be the cause, but then we don't care.

Thanks for the input.

I've turned off dynamic core (set it to normal) and no change.

As for the other questions:

1. Was disk 1 mounted as D when you installed?

Yes.

2. I don't think DOSBox 0.60 had VESA support, so you might try disabling VESA in the game or using a CVS build of DOSBox

Hmm... I don't think I can disable VESA in the game. (If someone knows how to do that in 11th Hour, let me know and I'll certainly try it).

I haven't attempted to build from CVS yet, but that will be next if this post doesn't suggest any other course of action.

3. You might also try using DOS32A in place of DOS4GW

Tried this. It looks more promising (I did get a screen flicker once which is more than I got before), but it stops and I get this screen of output:

1DOS/32A -- Protected Mode Run-time  Version 7.35
2Copyright (C) Supernar Systems, Ltd. 1996-2005
3
4SORRY!
5
6v32.exe is resetting the pixel depth to 16, this version of the player
7currently only supports 16bpp (support for 24bpp and 8bpp is forthcoming)
8press any key to continue

Pressing a key gets me the exact screen of text that I posted in my initial post plus some more output as shown here (it's only up for 1/2 a second or so before the screen clears). That's some progress at least! Nothing on this screen seems to indicate trouble to me.

1initCache: allocated a total of 14940160 bytes
2check4MSCDEX: MSCDEX returned version 2.23
3check4MSCDEX: found one CD-ROM drive
4check4MSCDEX: ------------------------------------------
5check4MSCDEX: data for drive D: follows
6check4MSCDEX: door is closed and locked
7check4MSCDEX: Supports cooked and raw reading
8check4MSCDEX: Read only
9check4MSCDEX: Data read and plays audio/video tracks
10check4MSCDEX: No interleaving
11check4MSCDEX: prefetching is not supported
12check4MSCDEX: No audio channel manipulation
13check4MSCDEX: Supports HSG and Red Book addressing modes
14check4MSCDEX: ------------------------------------------

After the above screen is up for 1/2 second or less, the following screen appears and the program exits.

1Info: your configuration has been reset to 8bpp to allow safe booting
2Error: unable to set requested graphic mode, please check your VESA driver
3DOS/32A warning (9003): real mode interupt vector has been modified: INT 00h
4DOS/32A warning (9003): real mode interupt vector has been modified: INT 01h
5DOS/32A warning (9003): real mode interupt vector has been modified: INT 02h

So it seems that the graphics driver is the issue. I checked the wiki pages for stuff I could change in the conf file, but nothing seemed to suggest how to set things to 16bpp.

Any other suggestions? Or should I run off and attempt a build from CVS source?

Thanks for your help.
Rick

Thanks for the input.

I've turned off dynamic core (set it to normal) and no change.

As for the other questions:

1. Was disk 1 mounted as D when you installed?

Yes.

2. I don't think DOSBox 0.60 had VESA support, so you might try disabling VESA in the game or using a CVS build of DOSBox

Hmm... I don't think I can disable VESA in the game. (If someone knows how to do that in 11th Hour, let me know and I'll certainly try it).

I haven't attempted to build from CVS yet, but that will be next if this post doesn't suggest any other course of action.

3. You might also try using DOS32A in place of DOS4GW

Tried this. It looks more promising (I did get a screen flicker once which is more than I got before), but it stops and I get this screen of output:

1DOS/32A -- Protected Mode Run-time  Version 7.35
2Copyright (C) Supernar Systems, Ltd. 1996-2005
3
4SORRY!
5
6v32.exe is resetting the pixel depth to 16, this version of the player
7currently only supports 16bpp (support for 24bpp and 8bpp is forthcoming)
8press any key to continue

Pressing a key gets me the exact screen of text that I posted in my initial post plus some more output as shown here (it's only up for 1/2 a second or so before the screen clears). That's some progress at least! Nothing on this screen seems to indicate trouble to me.

1initCache: allocated a total of 14940160 bytes
2check4MSCDEX: MSCDEX returned version 2.23
3check4MSCDEX: found one CD-ROM drive
4check4MSCDEX: ------------------------------------------
5check4MSCDEX: data for drive D: follows
6check4MSCDEX: door is closed and locked
7check4MSCDEX: Supports cooked and raw reading
8check4MSCDEX: Read only
9check4MSCDEX: Data read and plays audio/video tracks
10check4MSCDEX: No interleaving
11check4MSCDEX: prefetching is not supported
12check4MSCDEX: No audio channel manipulation
13check4MSCDEX: Supports HSG and Red Book addressing modes
14check4MSCDEX: ------------------------------------------

After the above screen is up for 1/2 second or less, the following screen appears and the program exits.

1Info: your configuration has been reset to 8bpp to allow safe booting
2Error: unable to set requested graphic mode, please check your VESA driver
3DOS/32A warning (9003): real mode interupt vector has been modified: INT 00h
4DOS/32A warning (9003): real mode interupt vector has been modified: INT 01h
5DOS/32A warning (9003): real mode interupt vector has been modified: INT 02h

So it seems that the graphics driver is the issue. I checked the wiki pages for stuff I could change in the conf file, but nothing seemed to suggest how to set things to 16bpp.

Any other suggestions? Or should I run off and attempt a build from CVS source?

Thanks for your help.
Rick

sorry for the double post -- I got a URL error after hitting submit the first time and assumed it hadn't gone through.

plain cvs does not support 16-bit. There is a patch of sourceforge though...

Thanks for the pointer to the 16bpp patch. I've compiled my own custom version of dosbox and it seems to be working. I haven't actually started playing the game yet, but it comes up and responds to mouse picks on the menu, sound is low but decent, etc.

It still makes me wonder what settings, patches of 11th Hour, etc., were in place when someone declared that it worked in 0.60. AFAICT, 11th Hour isn't functional in the stock build.

I'm running DOSbox 0.63 on XP (Dell Inspiron 9100 - P4 2.8 512Mg)
I did not load any patches for the game.
Here's what I did to make 11th Hour run..

In the dosbox.conf file-
[dosbox]
# language -- Select another language file.
# memsize -- Amount of memory dosbox has in megabytes.
# machine -- The type of machine tries to emulate:hercules,cga,tandy,vga.
# captures -- Directory where things like wave,midi,screenshot get captured.

language=
machine=vesa
captures=capture
memsize=16

Mounting the drives correctly-
mount D D:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
mount C C:\

Cycles=19000 Frameskip=0

There is a windows executable available at http://www.tbyte.com/downloads/

Unless you like the challenge....

11th Hour worked for me since 0.62 ? How odd that you had problems getting it to run.