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First post, by oompoop

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Hi!
I'm the new one here, 61 years old from Kiel, Germanistan and totally fond of ... Reloaded 😀
Unfortunately I now get an error message and the prog refuses ... 😢
Supposing difficulties loading a screenshot from my website as a newbie, I write it down here http://www.oompoop.de/DOSBox.JPG
Unfortunately it's in German.
Thanx and greetinx from the land between the two seas ...
oompoop

Reply 1 of 8, by IIGS_User

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Hi,

I would mark "DOSBox-Konsolenfenster aktivieren" (must be something like "Activate DOSBox console window" in english) to see what's going wrong.
The Console window is a second window besides DOSBox, with its output listet.

Klimawandel.

Reply 2 of 8, by oompoop

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Thanx, I'll give it a try and report ...

minutes later:
No, Sir, doesn't work ... (and there's no second window, nowhere ...)
Maybe a problem I have two versions of ...Reloaded, one at C:\ and another at E:\, but both identical?!

oompoop

Reply 4 of 8, by telanus

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I've got that error every now and then when adding games to the Frontend.
as can see here is a english version of the error: http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee400/Bar … dosboxerror.jpg

Normally happens here when I try to run a program that exits with a error , thus the error get's escalated to the frontend. IE in Teenage Queen if you try to run, IRUN.COM it gives the error as the program can't run on it's own

Reply 6 of 8, by Alexander

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If DOSBox is not working correctly there are two possible reasons: Either DOSBox is not starting at all (graphics driver problem etc.) or the game is not running inside DOSBox.

You should activate "DOSBox-Consolenfenster aktivieren" (Show console) and deactivate "DOSBox beim Programmende schließen" (Close DOSBox when program closes).

If DOSBox is not starting at all the console may says something like "Could not open display for output". In this case DOSBox has problems with your graphics driver and you can choose some other output method in the profile editor (for example "surface").

If DOSBox is starting but the game is not working inside DOSBox maybe the game gives you some hints when terminating; like "Please run setup.exe to configure your sound device before starting the game."

Reply 7 of 8, by oompoop

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the console may say something ...

I tried all, but couldn't find any hint at all, no logfile and no popup-window or something like that.
... and the console doesn't speak to me ...
The program worked fine for a long time, but suddenly that damned message popped up and not a single inbounded game starts 🙁

4 hours later:
I found DosBox Game Launcher, all is working fine now, even the problematic games Shanghai/Dragon's eye (freezed and didn't work) and Electro Body (had no sound).

Thanx so far ... 😎