can you read? try that readme thing, section troubleshooting and
report back if it works/still crashes

dont install a new dosbox over a old dosbox.

I'm a bit confuised cos if I use DFend it seems to work, but if i just run alone it crashes if im just tryong to load a DOS box.. I must be missing some config issue.. ?

If I delete DOSbox, reinstall, and run, I get a crash right away

AppName: dosbox.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: sdl.dll
ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 0002e699

If I use Dfend as a front end it works fine. I assuem somethings isnt getting set by default but Dfend sends it and the program will run.

Now and again, I can start up DOSbox all alone, and it runs fuine. And yes, I have read the manual.

Any tips? I only have one app to run, so prefer to not use dfend.

dbarton wrote:

If I delete DOSbox, reinstall, and run, I get a crash right away

How do you "run" ?

dbarton wrote:

Now and again, I can start up DOSbox all alone, <snip>

How do you "start up" ?

it seem to be installed in my start menu by the install prgram, so i just click that icon..

sometime it opens in a window, sometime just crashes.

"dosbox.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

Run a RAM test.

Go to Start => Run ... => Cmd
In the Cmd window, do a

C:\> chdir /d "%ProgramFiles%\DOSBox-0.70"
C:\> dir dosbox.exe
C:\> dosbox.exe

If DOSBox now fails to startup, please copy/paste the result from the dir command to this thread.

XP C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.70>dir dosbox.exe
Volume in drive C is WINDOZE
Volume Serial Number is AAF0-B1E2

Directory of C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.70

03/02/2007 02:18 a 3,107,840 dosbox.exe
1 File(s) 3,107,840 bytes
0 Dir(s) 102,232,899,584 bytes free

XP C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.70>dosbox

XP C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.70>

it goes to full screen mode, where I think it says it's creating a config file, (but flashes by very fast), then crashes exactly as described above.

Um that installation looks quite broken. Did you remove files?
Completely uninstall it, assure that the folder is deleted,
then re-download the dosbox 0.70 release and install it.
Try again what minimax posted then.

I did an uninstall and reinstall, but will do it agin and reboot in between.

thnx

Ok, you should get several more files than only the dosbox.exe,
mainly SDL.dll is missing.

he did 'dir dosbox.exe' which will only bring up dosbox.exe.

you asked me to do dir dosbox.exe

full dir is:

Volume in drive C is WINDOZE
Volume Serial Number is AAF0-B1E2

Directory of C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.70

03/05/2007 02:39 a <DIR> .
03/05/2007 02:39 a <DIR> ..
03/06/2007 10:22 a <DIR> capture
03/05/2007 05:55 a <DIR> CONFS Confs
03/05/2007 05:55 a <DIR> CUSTOM~1 CustomConfigs
03/05/2007 05:55 a <DIR> EXPORT Export
03/05/2007 05:55 a <DIR> ICONLI~1 IconLibrary
03/05/2007 05:55 a <DIR> IMPORT Import
03/05/2007 05:55 a <DIR> LANG Lang
03/05/2007 05:55 a <DIR> TEMPLA~1 Templates
03/06/2007 10:22 a <DIR> zmbv
03/02/2007 02:43 a 6,863 DOSBOX~1.CON dosbox.conf
03/06/2007 10:18 a 703 CONFOPT.DAT ConfOpt.dat
03/06/2007 10:19 a 0 DEVELO~1.DAT Developers.dat
03/06/2007 10:19 a 0 GENRES.DAT Genres.dat
03/06/2007 10:22 a 364 HISTORY.DAT History.dat
03/06/2007 10:19 a 127 PROFILES.DAT Profiles.dat
03/06/2007 10:19 a 0 PUBLIS~1.DAT Publisher.dat
03/06/2007 10:19 a 0 YEARS.DAT Years.dat
03/02/2007 02:18 a 326,656 SDL.dll
03/02/2007 02:18 a 13,312 SDL_NET.DLL SDL_net.dll
05/23/2006 08:34 p 1,560,064 DFEND_~1.EXE dfend_v2_beta_2.exe
03/02/2007 02:18 a 3,107,840 dosbox.exe
03/06/2007 10:22 a 34,358 UNINST~1.EXE uninstall.exe
03/06/2007 10:22 a 306 dfend.ini
03/02/2007 02:03 a 269 AUTHORS.txt
03/02/2007 02:03 a 18,332 COPYING.txt
03/02/2007 02:03 a 2,411 INSTALL.txt
03/02/2007 02:03 a 20,980 NEWS.txt
03/02/2007 02:03 a 44,845 README.txt
03/02/2007 02:04 a 730 THANKS.txt
21 File(s) 5,138,160 bytes
11 Dir(s) 102,195,216,384 bytes free

he did 'dir dosbox.exe' which will only bring up dosbox.exe.

Ah ok sorry, didn't see that.

Is that directory listing before or after you uninstalled+deleted dosbox?
There's a lot clutter in it and most likely some old dosbox.conf gets used.

I agree with wd - there is a lot of files in that directory. Looks like something that belongs to D-Fend??

Did you install D-Fend into the same directory as DOSBox-0.70? You shouldn't do that. If you did, you should export all your settings, uninstall D-Fend and completely remove the DOSBox-0.70 directory.

Then you can install DOSBox 0.70 into a new, clean directory. And next D-Fend into its own directory, import your profiles, etc.

ok, i deleted the diretories, reinstalled

Directory of C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.70

03/06/2007 12:41 p <DIR> .
03/06/2007 12:41 p <DIR> ..
03/06/2007 12:41 p <DIR> capture
03/06/2007 12:41 p <DIR> zmbv
03/02/2007 02:43 a 6,863 DOSBOX~1.CON dosbox.conf
03/02/2007 02:18 a 326,656 SDL.dll
03/02/2007 02:18 a 13,312 SDL_NET.DLL SDL_net.dll
03/02/2007 02:18 a 3,107,840 dosbox.exe
03/06/2007 12:41 p 34,358 UNINST~1.EXE uninstall.exe
03/02/2007 02:03 a 269 AUTHORS.txt
03/02/2007 02:03 a 18,332 COPYING.txt
03/02/2007 02:03 a 2,411 INSTALL.txt
03/02/2007 02:03 a 20,980 NEWS.txt
03/02/2007 02:03 a 44,845 README.txt
03/06/2007 12:51 p 145 stdout.txt
03/02/2007 02:04 a 730 THANKS.txt
12 File(s) 3,576,741 bytes
4 Dir(s) 102,227,263,488 bytes free

XP C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.70>

I just ran diosbox. It ran ok, but there was a second *full screen* window that said somehitng about reading config, and 'MIDI opened device win32.'

(If this is needed cant it run minmized?)

I tried it again, and it crashes each time now.

Again I set up a profile using dfend, and it runs my app just fine.
Some default settign in DOSbox causes me to crash?

Did it crash BEFORE you installed dfend again? That is with a clean
installation of dosbox 0.70?

In case it helps, this is the conf file that DFEND made for me trhat seems to run just fine:

[cpu]
cycles=3000
core=normal
cycleup=500
cycledown=20

[dosbox]
machine=vga
memsize=16
language=
captures=C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.70\Capture

[sdl]
output=overlay
fullscreen=true
fulldouble=false
fullresolution=1024x768
windowresolution=1024x768
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
usecancodes=true
priority=higher,normal
mapperfile=mapper.txt

[render]
scaler=normal2x
frameskip=0
aspect=true

[sblaster]
sbtype=sb16
sbbase=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
mixer=false
oplmode=auto
oplrate=22050

[gus]
gus=false
gusrate=22050
gusbase=240
irq1=5
irq2=5
dma1=1
dma2=1
ultradir=C:\ULTRASND

[midi]
mpu401=intelligent
device=win32
config=

[speaker]
pcspeaker=false
pcrate=22050
tandyrate=22050
disney=false

[dos]
xms=true
ems=true
umb=false

[mixer]
nosound=true
rate=22050
blocksize=2048
prebuffer=10

[bios]
joysticktype=none

[autoexec]
mount D "D:\"
D:
cd\
cd spg\
call dosboxld.bat