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First post, by Tumababa

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Argh. Has anybody had any luck getting Cavewars to work with either Dosbox or VDMSound? I can't get it to recognize any sort of VESA driver. I've tried both UNIVBE and VDMSound.

Reply 1 of 14, by Snover

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Have you tried NOLFB? 😀

Yes, it’s my fault.

Reply 2 of 14, by Tumababa

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Yes I have. BTW Sorry 'bout the crosspost.

Reply 3 of 14, by Snover

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How did you try NOLFB? 😀

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Reply 4 of 14, by Tumababa

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I ran it in MSDOS prompt before trying cavewars. Is there something amazingly obvious that I'm stupid for having missed? 😜

Reply 5 of 14, by Snover

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You have to run it in the SAME prompt. 😀

Yes, it’s my fault.

Reply 6 of 14, by Tumababa

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Yeah, like I run NOLFB in prompt and within that same prompt I run g:\games\cave.bat right?

Reply 7 of 14, by eL_PuSHeR

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If the batch file is on hard-disk (and not on cd-rom), you could edit it and add the NOLFB line before executing the game.

Reply 8 of 14, by Tumababa

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Bah. I still get an error message. Here it is:

Cavewars requires a VESA VBE 1.2 compatible SuperVGA.

Reply 9 of 14, by eL_PuSHeR

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Most newer cards support vesa 2.0+ at bios level. If the game is asking for vesa 1.2 then it may be that vesa 2.0 didn't exist yet at the time the game was made. However, vesa 2.0 *should be* 1.2 backwards compatible. Maybe the game is asking for a specific vesa driver, like scitech's univesa, univbe, display doctor or some other vesa incarnation.
What are your hardware specs. by the way?

Reply 10 of 14, by eL_PuSHeR

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Hey, Tumababa. I've seen that The Patches Scrolls has both a 1.1 and an 1.2ß patches for Cavewars. What version do you have?

BTW: This game is pretty new (from 1996/7 I think). So it must be one of the latest ms-dos games made.

Reply 11 of 14, by robertmo

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it works for me with vdmsound. I have winxp, GeforceFX5700. and cavewars v1.1

Reply 12 of 14, by Tumababa

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Hmmmm... Strange. When I run VDMsound AND Nolfb I can get to the Avalon Hill screen on startup but after that it just blacks out. Cavewars is version 1.2.

I have a PIV 2.6Ghz 1gig ram with a
Nvidia TNT2 Model 64 graphics card.

Reply 13 of 14, by OSH

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Cavewars version 1.20.
Works fine on DOSBOX CVS 0.72 from gulikoza.

Reply 14 of 14, by wd

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Whoooo you're the master of ancient thread ressurection or what?