>Program, just type it before running your program. OK, I'll try it now, thanks. >My guess is that close because you have asked (via D.O.G) to exit DOSBox automatically. No, I checked that originally, it's not that. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

Sorry mate, but I don't understand, what is "loadfix"? Thanks.

I've just discovered that DOSBox has been giving me an error message when it exits ( :blush: ), I didn't notice it because it's in a DOS Window behind the other DOS Window that comes up, and both close very quickly. Anyway, after [ALT GR] + [PRNT SCRN]-ing it, I find that the error message is: …

If you open up the dosbox.conf and modify the buffers value for whichever sound card your DOS program is using then you might probably fix your problem. Look under [mixer] and modify blocksize and prebuffer Thanks, I've halved the two values I found in D.O.G. (the Windows front-end I'm using for …

Thanks for replying. as experiment: before starting that SGD run command.com See what happends. I did, but it din't make any difference, DOSBox still exits when X128 does. I even tried COMMAND.COM twice, once inside another, but it gave the same result. I think I can see what you were trying for - …

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, but I'm trying to get a DOS program to run under DOSBox, and whilst it runs, it has two slight problems. The program is X128, a ZX Spectrum emulator, and whilst it runs fine in Windows 98 (it's a DOS program), it will not run under XP. My system is a 2GHz laptop, …