Wow. That's what i call a mature and thoughtful reply. To explain matters a bit further, I'm sure many VOGONS users (including myself) are not big fans of the legal situation concerning Abandonware, but it's, as you write, the law (in most countries anyway, I guess). Technical issues aside, I think …

I'm curious, though, what the rationale is for the hard-line stance against uploaded versions of the game. It's illegal. Not to mention in most cases it's the most 'broken' way to play DOS games, clearly as evidenced in this very thread. It's stupid to debug an error only caused by modified …

Buy the original game instead of using a pirated copy. So-called "Abandonware" will not be supported on VOGONS. The game runs perfectly well in DOSBox, no matter how many times it's restarted (the game and/or DOSBox). After I saw your post I did go to eBay and Amazon and saw that there are copies …

the uploader's a dumbass. Also you followed a tutorial from an abandonware site. I think there's many things in common relating to why the game is not working, but I can assure you that a real ROTH game can start many times successfully no problem within DOSBox. Actually the uploader isn't a " …

EDIT: Note that I installed it by mounting a .nrg one (image w/ data of all 4 original disks combined) with DaemonTools Maybe you shouldn't do that? You can mount multiple CD images in DOSBox (with IMGMOUNT) and switch between them with a hotkey, you know. As for the cause of this particular …

Hello all! I realize that my first post is necroing a pretty old thread, but it addresses the exact question that I have so it seemed appropriate. I'm pretty new to DOSBox, but I managed (with the help of MiniMax's 60 Second Guide) to both install and play Realms of the Haunting through DOSBox. The …