Hi,

I have DOSBox 0.65 installed on a Mac G4 733 MHz PowerPC and on a 1.2 MHz G5 PowerPC iMac, and also DOSBox 0.63 installed on a Debian Linux computer (800 MHz x86). I installed DOSBox for two main reasons: 1) to run Wolfenstein (works great), and, more importantly, to run Microsoft Word 5.0.

Word 5.0 is a light, fast word processor nothing like the later bloated Windows versions. I got used to it at work back in the '90s and have wanted to use it at home ever since, but am not willing to have a dedicated Windows or DOS machine.

Word 5.0 works fine in DOSBox, except for one thing: every once in a while, a short section of text in a Word document will be replaced by a random string of ASCII characters (it doesn't happen in a .txt document, though). The interesting thing is that, whether I am using DOSBox 0.65 on PowerPC or 0.63 on Linux, the same approximate section of text in the same document will be replaced by ASCII (although not always the exact same ASCII characters--it's a little different each time).

What could be the reason for this occurrence?