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"Program to big to fit" error?

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First post, by Hazekel

Posted on 2006-11-21, 18:15

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I did a search and couldn't find this, although your search engine isn't the best ...

Anyway, I am trying to run an old PC game called Asterocks (an asteriods clone). When I load DOSBOX manually it seems to work fine, but when I create a bat file (using default DOSBOX.CONF) I get "program too big to fit" error and it exits DOSBOX before loading the game! I have triple checked everything I can see and there does not appear to be anything out of place or mispelled. What on earth could cause this?

Reply 1 of 5, by MiniMax

Posted on 2006-11-21, 18:40

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It would have helped immensely, if you had include the BAT file in your post.

Reply 2 of 5, by wd

Posted on 2006-11-21, 18:59

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Bah, no hints!

Reply 3 of 5, by Hazekel

Posted on 2006-11-21, 19:33

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No sarcasm necessary 🙁

Here it is:

dosbox.exe D:\ARCADE\ASTEROCK\ASTEROCK.BAT -fullscreen -exit

Reply 4 of 5, by MiniMax

Posted on 2006-11-21, 19:47

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Please remove the -fullscreen and -exit options. The only thing they do is to hide any error messages that will help us determine what is wrong.

And what is in that ASTEROCK.BAT file?

Reply 5 of 5, by Hazekel

Posted on 2006-11-21, 19:58

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I removed them but DOSBOX still exited to windows! However, I THINK I may know the problem. I altered an existing Shortcut to direct it to the DOSBOX bat file and there may have been some DOS system specs in it that conflicted. In any case, I started afresh with a new shortcut and everything and its now works. Thanks.

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