I wanted to use dosbox to run the program 3D Dinosaur Adventure by Knowledge Adventure (the 1994 DOS version). Installation worked fine, but when i decided to execute the program, the following text appeared:
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1Recursive launch of launch module. This should not happen.
" and then shuts down.
What is that supposed to mean?! Anyways, can anyone please help with this issue and explain why this is happening?
if I were to guess they use shift inside a bat file.
This should work in the next version of DOSBox
Hi, I'm trying to run a similar game from the same developer: "3D Body Adventure" and it does seem to rely heavily upon batch scripting, for both installation and running. Here is the batch file which supposed to run it:
1@echo off 2rem usage: GUFHADAM [-v] [-clean] [-p] 3rem The -p is only used within Windows to pause the end screen. 4rem If -v is given, user can hit Ctrl-PrintScreen to dump the screen to a file. 5rem If -clean is given, no TSRs will be loaded before running ka. 6C: 7cd C:\GUFHADAM 8if "%1"=="-CLEAN" goto clean 9if "%1"=="-clean" goto clean 10rem rem power.exe not detected 11if "%1"=="-V" goto vgacapt 12if "%1"=="-v" goto vgacapt 13moustest 14if errorlevel 1 goto nomouse 15rem no special tsrs needed 16rem No special sound device 17ka -520k kav.exe -lC:\GUFHADAM -rD:\3DBODY -fC:\GUFHADAM 18if errorlevel 1 goto bottom 19rem don't clear the screen for errors... 20rem no special tsr cleanup needed 21goto end 22:nomouse 23mouse 24rem no special tsrs needed 25rem No special sound device 26ka -520k kav.exe -lC:\GUFHADAM -rD:\3DBODY -fC:\GUFHADAM 27if errorlevel 1 goto bottom 28rem don't clear the screen for errors... 29rem no special tsr cleanup needed 30mouse /u >nul 31goto end 32:vgacapt 33moustest 34if errorlevel 1 goto vnomouse 35rem no special tsrs needed 36rem No special sound device 37vgacapt ka -520k kav.exe -lC:\GUFHADAM -rD:\3DBODY -fC:\GUFHADAM 38if errorlevel 1 goto bottom 39rem don't clear the screen for errors... 40rem no special tsr cleanup needed 41goto end 42:vnomouse 43mouse 44rem no special tsrs needed 45rem No special sound device 46vgacapt ka -520k kav.exe -lC:\GUFHADAM -rD:\3DBODY -fC:\GUFHADAM 47if errorlevel 1 goto bottom 48rem don't clear the screen for errors... 49rem no special tsr cleanup needed 50mouse /u >nul 51goto end 52:clean 53ka -520k kav.exe -lC:\GUFHADAM -rD:\3DBODY -fC:\GUFHADAM 54if errorlevel 1 goto bottom 55rem don't clear the screen for errors... 56:end 57rem No special sound device cleanup 58echo. 59echo ֹֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽ» 60echo ÷ Thank you for using 3-D Body Adventure. ÷
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61echo ÷ ÷ 62echo ÷ Try these other great new products from Knowledge Adventure ÷ 63echo ÷ and Mirage Multimedia ÷ 64echo ָֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽ¼ 65echo. 66echo ֹֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽ» 67echo ÷ KNOWLEDGE ADVENTURE ÷ 68echo ÷ DINOSAUR ADVENTURE ÷ 69echo ÷ UNDERSEA ADVENTURE ÷ 70echo ÷ MAGIC THEATRE ÷ 71echo ÷ BUG ADVENTURE ÷ 72echo ָֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽֽ¼ 73echo. 74echo. 75echo. 76echo. 77:bottom 78if not "%1"=="-p" goto last 79 echo Press a key to return to Windows... 80 pause > nul 81:last 82rem just end.
Gives the same error ( "Recursive launch of launch module. This should not happen." ), but when I'm running:
1kav.exe -lC:\GUFHADAM -rD:\3DBODY -fC:\GUFHADAM
It seem to work although I have not tested the game thoroughly.
By the way, I'm using official 0.70 (haven't tried CVS yet) and all directories have been mounted properly (CD mounted as real CD drive including all possible parameters except LABEL).
Any advice?
Heh, I ran into this same problem. I was pretty bummed, I hadn't played the game in 10 years and I really wanted to play it again. I played around with it for far too long and found a way to at least get into the game.
Og's tip works on 3D dinosaur too, but not that well.
Go into c:\dino3d then run "kav -lC:\ -rD:\DINO3D -fC:\\DINO3D" . It doesn't work very well, I can't get into some of the things and there's no going back to the main menu, but at least it's something. Make sure you set the cpu cycles to at least 6000 or the videos will skip and freeze. Hopefully the next dosbox release will be more compatible with it, but this should tie us over for now.
Yes, i tried vdmsound but it was very slow. I tried another version that let you config it but the interface didnt work at all, so thats why I decided to try it on dosbox. Im using a VIA AC97, its supposed to emulate sound blaster 16 and legacy drivers (I turned on the sb16 option from the bios setup) but anyway it doesn't seem to be effective. Thanks anyway.
ok, ill wait for the next release then, thanks Qbix.