GetOut (freeware Finnish Breakout clone) hangs with corrupt MCB chain \ VOGONS

GetOut (freeware Finnish Breakout clone) hangs with corrupt MCB chain

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First post, by MrFlibble

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Recently I found a freeware Breakout like game called GetOut by a certain Jouni Laukkanen, but I can't get it to work in DOSBox. It hangs with no messages, but DOSBox terminal output indicates corrupt MCB chain.

The game itself can be downloaded from a MikroBitti coverdisk using DiscMaster:
https://discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/33280 … ketit/GO100.ZIP

I tried using JEMMEX instead of the built-in memory managers, no effect.

Tried running the game in 86box but no luck either.

DiscMaster finds no other instances of this game.

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Reply 1 of 1, by ripsaw8080

Posted on Yesterday, 17:33

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In an apparent case of mismanagement, the game code overwrites the last MCB header. The game seems to have been developed during the Win9X era, so perhaps in that "DOS" there is greater forgiveness for what happens.

The attached workaround program makes the game use a bit more memory than it asks for, thus avoiding the problem -- just put the program in the game folder and start with "GO" as before.

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