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First post, by Kelly Stiver

Posted on 2008-03-18, 16:26

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Hi. When I'm running Wndows 3.11 in DOSbox and I want to exit out of Windows I go to "File" in Program Manager, click "Exit Windows". The dialog box comes up and I click "Ok" and then nothing happens--Windows freezes up, it doesn't even close. Is there any remedy for this? Also, while browsing through this part of the forum, I found where some people have asked if is possible to save/load saved games while playing these games in DOSbox, and others have told these people "no". Is this true?

Reply 1 of 5, by mg55

Posted on 2008-03-18, 16:50

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Exiting Windows 3.11 works for me. Try reinstalling it.

Yes you can load/save games while playing under Dosbox.

Reply 2 of 5, by MiniMax

Posted on 2008-03-18, 17:09

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No, not while playing.

Reply 3 of 5, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2008-03-18, 17:17

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Two things that should not get mixed up:

a) The game's built in saving mechanism - works in DOSBox

b) "Save States" - stores the emulators working state to disk so you can close it and reopen at some other time (for games that can not save). This is planned but not possible in current DOSBox.

Last edited by h-a-l-9000 on 2008-03-18, 17:55. Edited 1 time in total.

1+1=10

Reply 4 of 5, by Kelly Stiver

Posted on 2008-03-18, 17:42

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Thanks for all the info. Anyway, I've just now downloaded DOSbox 0.72 Win32 installer, and will not install this until after I get my new 500 GB external hard drive set up and connected to my laptop & make a backup of DOSbox 0.72 Win32 installer on a DVD+RW. The version I have Windows 3.11 on is pain old DOSbox 0.72 (I think) Is there a difference with these 2 versions?

Reply 5 of 5, by wd

Posted on 2008-03-18, 17:54

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There is no difference between dosbox 0.72 and dosbox 0.72, only if you
got the latter version from an unknown/non-official source.

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