Hmmm. It could be true, no space. Try to change the way you mount a C-drive. Add a -freesize 250 option.

Thank you very much for responding. The option did not work however. Crashes at exactly the same point with the message :BOOK.LBX [Entry 1] exceeds number of LBX entries". Really annoying because I really liked that game. But thanks.

Regards,
Andy

Just some more info if it helps. I don't know if you're familiar with the game at all but the same crash with the same error message appears at the same time in different restarts of the game. When you learn a new spell you get an animation of the new spell being added to your spell book. Instead of returning to the game at that point it crashes with that same error message. I consider myself reasonably computer literate. I read through all the readmes and other documentation I can find to no avail. As I said I really loved this game and if anybody can help me figure it out I'LL DEDICATE A MASS TO YOU!.

Regards,
Andy Grey
Call if you think that might help 609-967-4924. I will probably be up until 4AM Eastern trying to make this work so don't worry how late it is. I'm an electrical engineer so if there's anything I can do for you in return just ask!

Please post your dosbox version and the exact mounting.

Is the problem fully reproducable?

It's fully reproducable. If I reload the same game at an autosave point it crashes again at exactly the same point with exactly the same error message. It's dosbox 0.72 with the latest MOM 1.31. Everything else appears to work fine, sound, speed, etc. Any new game I run crashes in exactly the same way with exactly the same error message when a new spell gets added to my spell book. I'd be happy to add whatever configs or switches to dosbox that might help but I've tried many to no avail. Thanks for continuing to try to help. Any other ideas?

Regards,
Andy Grey

Something else I've noticed if it's of any significance. The game says it requires 581k (or 591k, I don't remember the exact number) of conventional memory. I don't recall having seen any dosbox switch about reserving conventional memory. Is there one?

Regards,
Andy Grey

I want to thank everyone for their assistance. I seem to have figured it out. It wasn't dosbox at all. I kept getting an error message about this "BOOK.LBX" file not being long enough. When I looked at the file in the game directory it was 0 bytes long. Didn't seem right. On the installation CD it was 75k long. I just copied the long one over the empty one and it worked. Thanks to everyone who responded.

Regards,
Andy Grey

Please try re-installing the game, if it ends up with having this file at zero
bytes again there seems to be some real bug.