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Hocus Pocus (full version)

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First post, by medz16

Posted on 2010-07-12, 00:06

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Hi there!

I've been browsing around for a while and can't seem to find the fix to my problem. Whenever I try to fun the full/registered version of Hocus Pocus, I get a message reading "This program must be run under Win32." The shareware version runs fine. I'm using DOSBox.74 on OSX 10.5.8. Any advice?

Thanks! ~megs

Reply 1 of 12, by collector

Posted on 2010-07-12, 01:47

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The phrase "Win32" says it all.

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Reply 2 of 12, by medz16

Posted on 2010-07-12, 02:32

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I just don't understand why the shareware runs and the complete game doesn't? They're both listed as "supported" on the DOSBox website.

Reply 3 of 12, by SKARDAVNELNATE

Posted on 2010-07-12, 03:41

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Run it in Windows, see what happens.

Reply 4 of 12, by wd

Posted on 2010-07-12, 05:52

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Where is that "registered version" from?

Reply 5 of 12, by Qbix

Posted on 2010-07-12, 06:15

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you are probably trying to run the installer in dosbox.

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Reply 6 of 12, by medz16

Posted on 2010-07-12, 14:09

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If I had a Windows machine, I would.

The registered version is from me buying it from the 3D Realms site ($6, not a big deal).

The download did not include an installer, just Hocus_pocus.exe. The shareware download came with an installer, which I did have to run in dosbox.

Reply 7 of 12, by wd

Posted on 2010-07-12, 14:34

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The registered version is from me buying it from the 3D Realms site ($6, not a big deal).

Check their specs if they claim it runs on non-windows systems.

Any way your best bet is to use some file extraction tool to unpack
the whole installer (7zip may work).

Reply 8 of 12, by Qbix

Posted on 2010-07-12, 14:35

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it works in wine

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Reply 9 of 12, by Craziegurl215

Posted on 2010-12-31, 06:19

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Did you ever fix this problem? I just downloaded it myself and got the same single file (hocus_pocus.exe). I would love to figure out how to run this game since I legitimately bought it!

Thanks =D

Reply 10 of 12, by keropi

Posted on 2010-12-31, 10:49

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I suspect hocus_pocus.exe is just a windows self-extracting archive... the files inside are normal DOS ones, so just get a windows machine to extract and transfer files to DOSbox

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