Please follow posting guidelines. This is a very difficult concept, I know. You can see the posting guidelines by clicking on those words in my signature.

For the blatanly stupid ones who can read the all caps top sticky thread title that says "DO NOT POST QUESTIONS ABOUT DOSBOX HERE"???

I was uncertain enough that this wasn't a generic 'anything' question more than a specific DOSBox question to move it.

To be fair the title of the forum does read:

DOS
Getting old DOS games working.

Doesn't mention Real DOS, NTVDM, PCDOS, VPC, Dosbox, or any other DOS really.

Perhaps in their eagerness to get their problem fixed they don't read the posts in the forum before posting themselves?

Download, unpack.
Load D-fend. Load template, point to CMAZE and SETUP.
Disable GUS, Not cycle sensitive.
Loads just fine. Some weird copy protection thing. Click 5 times. Game.

Thanks ribbon13, I'll try that now.

As for anyone who thinks I didn't read the post DO NOT POST TOPICS ABOUT DOSBOX HERE. I did!!!!!!!

My query was how do you get the crystal maze game to work, and I then said that I had tried to use DosBox to get it to work.

As DosFreak said:

The title of this forum does read "getting old Dos games working".

This is an old Dos game, which doesn't work on my PC, so that's why I posted about it here!!!

Let us know if you get it to work.

I agree that some of the forums overlap in their scope, and that this can create ambiguity, confusion, etc. On VOGONS, it's kind of an informal rule that anything mentioning DOSBox should be posted in one of the DOSBox forums (in case, I suppose, someone who knows a lot about DOSBox doesn't read the general DOS forums).

well if something is posted wrong we have moderators to move the posts. So it shouldn't matter that much.

GOT IT TO WORK!!!!!!!

Thank you very much ribbon13.

However, you are now responsible for me having to play this game 24-7!!!!! 😁 😁 😁

PS. Does anybody know how to get out of rooms when the tick-tock noise comes in????? I either seem to complete the game or get locked in!! 🙁

Any more help would be appreciated. (Links to the manual etc.)

http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/brainy/cm.htm

Been to that site loads of times b4. It really is a top fan-site, but unfortunately does not refer to the PC game anywhere, as far as I know, and hardly any of the links work!!!!!

On the PC game, when you play on the proper mode i.e. NOT the "play the games as many times as you like mode", I can't get out of the rooms unless I complete the game or fail it miserably. Otherwise the 5 second timer comes in, and I frantically press every button on my keyboard in a bid to escape. There must be a way to get out, and it is that what I want to know.

If anyone can help, please let me know.

Thanks.

Hey turkey_ni.

I think it might be ctrl-esc to get out of the games without getting trapped.
Who knew M$ would screw things up a few years later.
I'll try to get the source code and check.

Cheers
Nick Westgate. (Co-author - apologies ;-)

I've worked it out!!!

It seems to be the left ctrl + alt + esc pressed together, which gets you out in time. 😁 😁 😁

Cheers to everyone who has helped me!!!

P.S. Congratulations Nick on a really excellent game. It has brought back so many brilliant memories of a show I used to adore as a kid.

Ah, nostalgia!!!