My guess is that DOSBox tries to read the file DOSBox.conf but don't realize that it is a short-cut. And then it simply dies because it gets confused.

Wait one minute! What do you mean? Is there a way around this?

Nope - that is not it. Just tested that.

What do you have in that configuration file?

Have you tried creating a CMD-window and start DOSBox from the prompt? Maybe with the -noconsole option?

And remove that 'exit' from the autoexec section of DOSBox.conf.

it helped a bit: it goes full-screen to dosbox. It says that dw2.bat is an illegal command and that the 'image' must be on a host or local drive. What happened here?

Franklinsteiner wrote:

What happened here?

Franklinsteiner wrote:

I followed this guide:

Discworld 2 in XP using DosBox

I guess you lied.

Well I don't have a dw2.bat exactly. I thought that perhaps dw2.bat who stand for batch so I used my dw2 ms dos batch file instead.

I wasn't lying, just didn't think it was nessacary.

Are you still having problems with this, or did you sort it out?

Normally I wouldn't bump a week-old topic, but since it's my guide you're following, I'd just like to make sure everyone who uses it gets the game working properly.

EDIT: For anyone curious, he did get it fixed in the end. Huzzah!