I played the game thru to the bitter end - was enjoyable. The poping sound might be some kind of "lag", I never notice it in playing. The only bug was the spinning in place which is easy stoped. I found some good walk thrus on the web, without which I would have been big time stuck. The CD's had …

Any suggests where to go? M

Okay I finally got aces pacific to work in dosbox - had to look on the web and found the magic dosboxconfig settings (cycle 1000, up / down 250, frameskip 1 mem 32, dynamic core if memory serves me right) to make it work. Now I like to add the 1946 add on / upgrade from underdogs. No readme or notes …

Run from dosbox, go to install and USING THE MOUSE ONLY setup that sound / music card to match the IRQ / address / DMA etc. settings to match DOSBOX (a point I miss before!!), now exit and save, a message should come up it save, it not then the game locks up after the first bolt of lighting!!! I …

One more round... drag out a win 98 machine, made a boot to dos high em disk per legacy readme file with umb, xms, ems, smartdrve, etc, ran from "pure" DOS bootup, same problem! So the program ay be at fault... I give up! Did bring back the "fun" of making DOS games run on different machines, now I …

Yep - ran thru the setup rountine, tested the sound card, save setup file. The game does play normal sound till the freeze, turning off all sound the game still lock up. M

Now it's my turn.... Been trying to run this game thru dosbox (on win xp pro), vdmsound etc. The same problem shows up - opening intro screen, everything fine, nice sound / graphics, then first lighting bolt the sound / game freezes. If I skip the intro screen then once a charcter does a action step …