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Phantasmagoria 2 Problem

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Reply 20 of 34, by eL_PuSHeR

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Yes the third one on the right-top row of the post.

Reply 21 of 34, by tomlow

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does anybody know how to get the 16-bit movies of the windows version in DOSbox? The dos version has only 265 colors.

Reply 22 of 34, by Qbix

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uhm even if you can get the game reading the 16 bit movies dosbox will not display them as dosbox has 8 bit (256) maximum colors

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Reply 23 of 34, by tomlow

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oh ok, doesn't matter anyway... the game keeps crashing down,
even in dosbox. it runs fine but it locks-up all the time...

Reply 24 of 34, by Snover

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Is it the game that locks up or the video?

Yes, it’s my fault.

Reply 25 of 34, by tomlow

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the game locks up.
the sound is good, the video is smooth and the gameplay too.
but sometimes it crashes back to windows or the music crashes.

Reply 26 of 34, by Snover

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Oh, I was talking about in DOSBox.

Yes, it’s my fault.

Reply 27 of 34, by tomlow

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yes i was talking about dosbox but i run dosbox in windows you see...

Reply 28 of 34, by Snover

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In dosbox.conf, set waitonerror=true. It should stop so you can see the error in the console and report it now.

Yes, it’s my fault.

Reply 29 of 34, by tomlow

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well, it the game returns to dosbox with a small window and no errormessage.
I turned on the "waitonerror" but there no error message.

weird...

Reply 30 of 34, by swaaye

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I'm tellin ya'all...just use VMWare. Or a real Win98 install. I played thru the entire game ok with VMWare. VirtualPC may well be the better way to go and I think you can get a demo of that from MS.

It is annoyingly ironic that P1 works fine in XP while P2 is broken.

Reply 31 of 34, by tomlow

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where can i get VMware?
thanks (still cant play this game on xp)

Reply 32 of 34, by MiniMax

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WMware? At any professional software reseller.

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Reply 33 of 34, by skwatter

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Say tomlow,

I know this is 3 years too late, but I have found a fix to get Phantasmagoria 2 for Windows 95 working absolutely perfectly in Windows XP.

no Dosbox, no VDMsound. NATIVE. Windows. XP.

Just go to:
http://www.squirtthecat.com/

Click on the Phantasmagoria 2 - A Puzzle of Flesh link,

Download:
English: phantasmagoria_2_english_install_20080706.msi

Hope this helps. It did wonders for me!!!
😁