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Flight Unlimited

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First post, by SysGOD

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i was trying to get the german version of flight unlimited to work today and run into some big problems.
installed the game game from the original CD and then execute the flight.exe.

first try with dynamic core around 40k cycles with no sound.
dosbox crashes and the status window reports the following before it closes:

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Illegal read from fffc2782, CS:IP 180: 25102a
Illegal read from fffc2783, CS:IP 180: 25102a
Illegal read from fffc2784, CS:IP 180: 25102a
Illegal read from fffc2785, CS:IP 180: 25102a
Illegal read from fc3dee5f, CS:IP 180: 22904
Exit to error: DynCore: illegal option in opcode 0xff

with sound enabled (soundblaster) the game crashes before showing the intro with a DOS/4GW error (2001): exception 01h at 180:00022953...

second try with full core at 20k cycles and no sound:

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Illegal write to 896c22ff, CS:IP 180: 30f8e
Illegal read from 896c22ff, CS:IP 180: 30f92
Illegal write to 896c22ff, CS:IP 180: 30f92
Illegal read from 896c22ff, CS:IP 180: 30f96
Illegal write to 896c22ff, CS:IP 180: 30f96
Illegal read from 896c22ff, CS:IP 180: 30f9a
Exit to error: IRET:Illegal descriptor type 0

after enabling sound the game crashes with a different error: Error [35]: Unexpected Interrupt=003D in FLIGHT.EXE at 0180:292A...
and the status window shows the "illegal read from..." with an endless loop.

i tested it with all cores and many different cycle settings with the same results. using a clean dosbox 0.65 with a default dosbox.conf.

someone else experience this?

EDIT:
search results shows only one unanswered topic about this game with a similar problem.
there is also no flight unlimited entry in the games database at the dosbox website. 😕

Reply 1 of 1, by SysGOD

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ok problem solved. the error described above only occur with the unpatched version of FU.
after patching it with the vF2.4s update everthing works fine. no crashes or warnings in the status window anymore.

the bad news, FU is nearly unplayable with dosbox for me. no chance to get smooth gameplay without sound stuttering even on low resolution.