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First post, by mirstas

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Hello !

These two old games - Zone Raiders (1995) & Euro 96 (UEFO Euro 96 England) I loved to play very much at my childhood.

So I want to play games now. I installed DosBox 0.74 on Windows XP and tried Windows 7 & mounted folders with these games, but when I run them I have nothing showing on the game Euro 96 (UEFO Euro 96 England) and after running Zone Raiders (1995) I have an error: "Can't run code in this page!" showing constantly on the first window of DosBox 0.74

Maybe somebody can help me with these problems.

Thank you !

Reply 1 of 7, by ripsaw8080

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It seems the Zone Raiders crash can be avoided with core=normal, though it will almost certainly be slower than dynamic core. Tried fixed and limited cycles, LOADFIX, increasing memsize, but those didn't help. However, no crash with DOS32A instead of DOS4GW. You can run the game like "DOS32A RAID.EXE" or restub RAID.EXE with DOS32A. Maybe a different version of DOS4GW instead of the included one will work, haven't tried them.

A technical note that may be of interest to the DOSBox devs: Zone Raiders does not crash with dynamic core and the included DOS4GW on my debug build of DOSBox because it has a cache block size of 1 for debugging. The game also doesn't crash with 16 instructions per cache block. I get the crash with the usual 32 instructions per cache block. Maybe a coincidence that it dodges the crash somehow, but thought it was interesting.

Reply 2 of 7, by ripsaw8080

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UEFA Euro '96 England is working for me with default settings in DOSBox. I configured the game with SB16 and General MIDI sound options. Make sure the game's CONFIG.INI has "DestinationPath=C:\EURO96" or where you have the game installed; I suspect your problem is that you've got the wrong drive/path there.

Reply 3 of 7, by mirstas

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Thank you a lot !

The game Euro96 it is running now ! ))) WOW !!!! ))))


Zone Raiders
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I've downloaded DOS32A from http://dos32a.narechk.net/index_en.html -
"dos32a-912-bin.zip" and copied DOS32A.EXE to the root directory of the Raiders. When I'm running "DOS32A RAID.EXE" I don't know why appeared error "Source directory x:\dir not found. Make sure CD is inserted into drive." where "x:\dir" I can change in configuration file "ZR.CFG". I changed in different ways "x:\dir" but it is still the same error.

I found how to fix errors with DosBox 0.72 on "http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=897&letter=Z" but haven't tried yet...

Thank you for Euro96 once more !!! )

Reply 4 of 7, by ripsaw8080

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I think you can take the error at face value: the game can't find the CD. Please describe the exact mount commands you use.

I'm mounting an image of the disc with: mount d c:\doscd\zoneraid.iso -t iso

After installation ZR.CFG contains:

ROOTDRIVE=D:
ROOTDIR=\RAID\
ANIMDRIVE=D:
ANIMDIR=\RAID\ANIM\

Reply 5 of 7, by mirstas

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I've downloaded .rar file & extracted archive at d:\RAID

And mounted the drive with: mount d d:\RAID

And tried now at ZR.CFG:

ROOTDRIVE=D:
ROOTDIR=\RAID\
ANIMDRIVE=D:
ANIMDIR=\RAID\ANIM\

But it is still the same error. Maybe I have to do an .iso file from .rar...

Reply 6 of 7, by mirstas

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and installation is running only with DOS4GW, and after installation I have at ZR.CFG empty variables... I changed paths by myself

Reply 7 of 7, by ripsaw8080

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I guess you're using a rip of the CD. You might get it to work with correct mountings. For example, if you put the game in c:\dosgames\raid (change c:\dosgames to what you want to use):

mount c c:\dosgames
mount d c:\dosgames -t cdrom
c:
cd raid
dos32a raid.exe

With that the game might be able to find its files on D:\RAID\ and D:\RAID\ANIM\, and any MSCDEX checks might be satisfied because of the "-t cdrom". ZR.CFG would be like I posted before.

I can't be certain the above method will work, depends on the rip, but it makes sense to me.