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When trying to install EOB3 from the original disk images or using the compressed install files, the game will not install properly in DOSBox 0.74 and SVN. The game's installer calls a decompression programcalled DEARJ.EXE to decompress the ARJ archive files which contain the actual game files. The problem occurs when a file straddles two of the ARJ files. The program will begin to extract, but when it asks for the next disk or next file in the archive, it will not finish the extraction of the last file from the previous archive. It will say something like "file date/time not a match, skipping" and go on to decompress the next file. The result is that when the game claims that the installation was completed successfully, it was not as at least three files were not completely decompressed.
This problem was reported, more or less, many years ago but no solution was recommended. The standard workaround is to install the game with a 32-bit version of Windows or using a real MS-DOS booted in DOSBox. A compression program that can decompress files spanning across ARJ archive files would also work. The issue also affects Eye of the Beholder 1, 2 & 3 as compressed on the Eye of the Beholder Trilogy disks. It may also affect other games that use the same compression method like Ultima VIII.
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