Argh. Has anybody had any luck getting Cavewars to work with either Dosbox or VDMSound? I can't get it to recognize any sort of VESA driver. I've tried both UNIVBE and VDMSound.
Have you tried NOLFB? 😀
Yes, it’s my fault.
Yes I have. BTW Sorry 'bout the crosspost.
How did you try NOLFB? 😀
Yes, it’s my fault.
I ran it in MSDOS prompt before trying cavewars. Is there something amazingly obvious that I'm stupid for having missed? 😜
You have to run it in the SAME prompt. 😀
Yes, it’s my fault.
Yeah, like I run NOLFB in prompt and within that same prompt I run g:\games\cave.bat right?
If the batch file is on hard-disk (and not on cd-rom), you could edit it and add the NOLFB line before executing the game.
Bah. I still get an error message. Here it is:
Cavewars requires a VESA VBE 1.2 compatible SuperVGA.
Most newer cards support vesa 2.0+ at bios level. If the game is asking for vesa 1.2 then it may be that vesa 2.0 didn't exist yet at the time the game was made. However, vesa 2.0 *should be* 1.2 backwards compatible. Maybe the game is asking for a specific vesa driver, like scitech's univesa, univbe, display doctor or some other vesa incarnation.
What are your hardware specs. by the way?
Hey, Tumababa. I've seen that The Patches Scrolls has both a 1.1 and an 1.2ß patches for Cavewars. What version do you have?
BTW: This game is pretty new (from 1996/7 I think). So it must be one of the latest ms-dos games made.
it works for me with vdmsound. I have winxp, GeforceFX5700. and cavewars v1.1
Hmmmm... Strange. When I run VDMsound AND Nolfb I can get to the Avalon Hill screen on startup but after that it just blacks out. Cavewars is version 1.2.
I have a PIV 2.6Ghz 1gig ram with a
Nvidia TNT2 Model 64 graphics card.
Cavewars version 1.20.
Works fine on DOSBOX CVS 0.72 from gulikoza.
Whoooo you're the master of ancient thread ressurection or what?
