How long do you need to re-reach that point from a new game? If it's fast,
or you can load an older savegame: try starting loadfix before starting the
game and see if the error vanishes.

Nope the loadfix command didnt work. Im going to try starting all over again from scratch and see what happens from there. It shouldnt take me that long to get back to where I was at when the error was occurring.

Nope the loadfix command didnt work.

Well my idea was a corrupted savegame, thus loadfix alone would NOT work.
But restarting the game, you should assure you load loadfix before the game
for testing (create a batch file that does that or so).

When I run loadfix under dosbox it doesn't have enough memory to run the game.

try "loadfix -32" or similar

I did that and It worked. All i need to do is play the game normally and see what happens. Thanks for your help.

Please report back if you have an idea what the cause and/or the fix was.

Well Im reporting back to say I got the error message even with the loadfix command activated and I even started over from the beginning. I still dont know what the cause is.

and im going to post my saved game to see if anyone could trigger the error or not. http://savefile.com/projects/808732267

You/somebody who can reproduce it as well might want to try the save
game on a real pc, or on a diskimage inside dosbox (msdos or freedos)
or bochs. This way you could spot (or rule out) that dosbox is at fault.

Well I tried running the dos version of the game under win98 but it still gave the error msg. I might just try that imgmount command with a hard drive. Also i might try running a Virtual PC running dos 6.22 and see if that works if i can get the sound working and a cd-rom drive working as well. I also tried running the game under the command prompt that xp uses and I still got the error message. So I dont know what is at fault. Im sorta convinced that its not a dosbox issue but im not entirely sure unless some one else other than me gets the same error message.

Also if you go through the game without getting all of the points up to the part Im having trouble with currently the game runs fine under dosbox.

I tried it with my version but the savegame doesn't work (different interpreter).
Maybe there are patches out for the game? (patches scrolls if it still exists?)

Patches Scrolls doesn't appear to have anything on EcoQuest.

You probably have the Floppy disk version and my saved game is for the Cd-rom version.

My site has all of the available patches for the Sierra SCI games and many of the Sierra family games. The only patch for the EcoQuest games is the updated SoundBlaster driver. I'm not sure if I will be able to use your save file. the CD version that I have is 1.1. You have 1.001.064. The Sierra save games are very version specific. I'll check it out this weekend. BTW, you didn't post the catalog file with the save game. If you don't have it, I guess I can make a new one.

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My site has all of the available patches for the Sierra SCI games and many of the Sierra family games. The only patch for the EcoQuest games is the updated SoundBlaster driver. I'm not sure if I will be able to use your save file. the CD version that I have is 1.1. You have 1.001.064. The Sierra save games are very version specific. I'll check it out this weekend. BTW, you didn't post the catalog file with the save game. If you don't have it, I guess I can make a new one.

I posted it as a separate file and not together with the saved game file if you look at the site where I uploaded the saved game you can see there are 2 files there. But the version file says I have version 1.1.

I see. I didn't scroll down the page. I''ll take a look this weekend.

Τhis message ist the most famous Sierra bug. It appears in many games. I have the cd version too but haven't played it yet.The bug appears mostly when the player is trying to do something, which the game programmers and testers didn't come up to.No idea though why is this happening with eco quest.It could possibly be either a buggy version or that the older CD version was problematic and that Sierra fixed the bug with a new improved version of the game.

Hmm heres something interesting. Well a while back I installed Windows 3.11 under dosbox so I decided to install the windows version of EcoQuest and bam I was able to complete the game without getting that error message.

Are the savegames compatible?