I realize this thread is very old, and probably the original poster is long gone, but nevertheless I wanted to post how I managed to get this game running fully, with videos and everything. First off, I'm pretty sure that modern DirectX screws up the video playback within the game, this would …

Sooo....do you want them to run the Windows version in Dos using HXRT or something? Why not direct people to the DOS version if your going to post in the DOS forum? Moving to Windows.... The description of the DOS forum reads: Getting old DOS games working. The PC releases of Infocom's text …

I did a search and didn't see any threads previously dealing with this program, so I thought I'd bring it up for any of those interested in playing old Text Adventure games (or even new Text Adventure games, at that). The program is called WinFrotz, version 5.3 is XP-compatible, and is available at: …

Actually Pool of Radiance is the only one of the series that I cannot get to run with DOSBOX. It is very strange indeed and I can't figure out for the life of me what is wrong. Out of curiosity, what exactly does it do for you (i.e. in what way does it not work)? As mentioned, I can run the game …

Thanks! It's kind of strange since some people seem able to play without an issue. But if you guys can track down the cause and fix it that'd be awesome. And thanks for editing the thread title, I guess I could have been a bit more specific.

Yeah, it happens every time. After the first time I made some "dummy" characters with nonsense names just to test it out and it caused the same problem. I can reproduce the problem pretty much at will.

Hello all, I'm a fairly new user to DOSBox, I'd been maintaining a dual-boot system with an excellent bootdisk for DOS games, but then that drive developed bad sectors and died, leaving me with XP only. Fortunately, for the most part I've found DOSBox to work well. It runs System Shock near- …