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First post, by exofreeze

Posted on 2011-12-19, 21:41

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Trying to play the game Tamper:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/tamper

A search showed another fellow had this issue, although it never seemed to be resolved.

Essentially, clicking 'New Game" on the menu leads to an insufficient disk space error.

I have tried setting the freesize of drive C to 5, 10, and 100 megs respectively.

Current conf:

1[sdl] 
2fullscreen=false  
3fulldouble=false 
4fullresolution=original 
5windowresolution=original 
6output=surface 
7autolock=true 
8sensitivity=100 
9waitonerror=true 
10priority=higher,normal 
11mapperfile=mapper-0.74.map 
12usescancodes=true 
13[dosbox] 
14language= 
15machine=svga_s3 
16captures=capture 
17memsize=4 
18[render] 
19frameskip=0 
20aspect=false 
21scaler=normal2x 
22[cpu] 
23core=auto 
24cputype=auto 
25cycles=auto 
26cycleup=10 
27cycledown=20 
28[mixer] 
29nosound=false 
30rate=44100 
31blocksize=1024 
32prebuffer=20 
33[midi] 
34mpu401=intelligent 
35mididevice=default 
36midiconfig= 
37[sblaster] 
38sbtype=sb16 
39sbbase=220 
40irq=7 
41dma=1 
42hdma=5 
43sbmixer=true 
44oplmode=auto 
45oplemu=default 
46oplrate=44100 
47[gus] 
48gus=false 
49gusrate=44100 
50gusbase=240 
51gusirq=5 
52gusdma=3 
53ultradir=f:\ULTRASND 
54[speaker] 
55pcspeaker=true 
56pcrate=44100 
57tandy=auto 
58tandyrate=44100 
59disney=true 
60[joystick]

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61joysticktype=auto 
62timed=true 
63autofire=false 
64swap34=false 
65buttonwrap=false 
66[serial] 
67serial1=dummy 
68serial2=dummy 
69serial3=disabled 
70serial4=disabled 
71[dos] 
72xms=false 
73ems=true 
74umb=false 
75keyboardlayout=auto 
76[ipx] 
77ipx=false 
78[autoexec] 
79cd .. 
80cd .. 
81mount c .\games\Tamper88  -freesize 100
82mount a .\games\Tamper88\floppy\ -t floppy 
83c: 
84cls
85#cd tamper
86tamper
87exit

I tried mounting an empty folder as an A; floppy, in the event it expected to save to floppy. I have played with the ems, umb, and xms switches. it doesn't seem to care unless you turn ems off at which point it will refuse to launch.

I have tried simple, normal, and auto CPU types.

I have tried 4, 8, and 16 for the memsize.

I have tried launching the game from a C:, and from c:\tamper in the event the game requires being run from a specific directory.

Any other thoughts? Thank you!

Reply 1 of 4, by ripsaw8080

Posted on 2011-12-19, 21:58

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Should be fixed in SVN, revision 3686.

Reply 2 of 4, by SKARDAVNELNATE

Posted on 2011-12-19, 22:25

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exofreeze wrote:
I have tried setting the freesize of drive C to 5, 10, and 100 megs respectively.

I think those values are actually lower than what DOSBox has by default.

Reply 3 of 4, by ripsaw8080

Posted on 2011-12-20, 04:37

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Changing the amount of free space doesn't help because the problem is caused by drive geometry. Fewer sectors per cluster are reported in SVN, which avoids free space calculation bugs such as in Tamper.

An effective workaround for DOSBox 0.74 is to mount the game folder as a floppy, because it changes the reported geometry to a low number of sectors per cluster:

mount a c:\dosgames\tamper -t floppy
a:
tamper

Reply 4 of 4, by exofreeze

Posted on 2011-12-20, 14:35

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great! fixed it right up mounting as a floppy. Great trick to know about, thank you very much for your assistance.

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