So I was trying to get the shareware version of Solar Winds going with my standard config file. It would cause the game to show this error and then not play the music score.

Google finds the same problem in the past.

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• https://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7255

Version DOSBox 0.74-2

Steps to reproduce:

• Include
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  1cycles=fixed 20000
  

  in the config file.

Steps to fix:

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  1cycles=fixed 19000
  

  in the config file.

The error seems to be the starting cycles or the config file itself since raising the cycles manually after launch but before the hardware probe doesn't cause the error.

If anything this is to document a work-around for this game.