Sorry to bring this topic up again, but I'm having the same problem.
I've been trying to get advice on fixing this on the abandonia forums, and a member there referred to this forum, so I decided to see if anyone here has come up with a solution.
I'm running DOSBox 0.72.
I've already tried changing the cycles in 500 increments from 4000 to 20000, and also set it to max.
I've changed the frameskip from 0 to 1 to 2 to 3.
I've changed core from auto to full to normal.
For every change of one setting, I've tried it with all the changes of the other settings mentioned above.
Nothing works. Everytime I use the item, the selection for the 5 towns come up, I type in a number for the town I want to go to, hit enter, the game says 'Please wait', then crashes to DOSBox. The error message displayed in DOSBox is: Error drawing sprite in window: 0000 handle: 0009 frame: 0008!
The thread for World Of Xeen on the Abandonia forum is 49 pages long, and I haven't seen anyone else there have this error. In fact, the original poster here is the only other person I can find a post for that mentions it.
I assume from this that it's a pretty rare situation.
I think I can play the game thru without using Town Portal, but it will make it more difficult. I'd really appreciate any help you guys can give.
Thanks.
