>"Load error: no DPMI - Get csdpmi*b.zip" (I've done that,
> it changed nothing).

??? CWSDPMI works with DOSBOX. And certainly you should not get this message when you have DPMI installed (even if it would not work).
Did you start it? Or just downloaded file and let it lie around?!?

Mirek

That's odd, I play the DOS version of NetHack, which uses CWSDPMI, and CWSDPMI works here.

Probably didn't unzip the cwsdpmi into the the games directory and either way can't really reenable dpmi since it's missing features that'll screw up other games that use those features. Kinda annoying of those djgpp games anyway that they always include the dpmi server so they always fall back to that if there isn't one running.

CWSDPMI works with DOSBOX. And certainly you should not get this message when you have DPMI installed (even if it would not work).
Did you start it? Or just downloaded file and let it lie around?!?

I did exactly what I remembered having done when trying to run these games under DOS, instead of getting DPMI services from Win9x: put the file (a ZIP file in this case) in the same directory as the executable, and run the program I wanted to use. It turns out, now that talk of "running" CWSDPMI sends me looking, that the file I had used then was an executable - named cwsdpmi.exe, which I assumed would not work since the program requested csdpmi*b.zip. Now that I actually *try* the same file (as I thought I had done before, but must not have), the program starts - and DOSBox quits right after the splash screen with "Pagefault didn't correct page", but at least it's a step farther.

Apologies for the wildly incorrect question.

Try to set a different CPU core in DOSBOX.CONF (there are three: normal, full, dynamic). Perhaps one of them will work.
You can also try a different version of CWSDPMI.

Mirek

Well, I tried different CPU cores. 'normal" and "full" produced identical results, as previously described: "Pagefault didn't correct page". "dynamic", however, did something different. It still crashed, but this time with a different message (a brief flash of a technical-looking screen whose contents I dont remember, and the line "Aborted" instead of "Pagefault didn't correct page"), and it didn't give my mouse back afterwards - cursor dropped to the back layer, wouldn't move, clicking did nothing. I had to restart X to regain control.

I don't know where to look for different versions of CWSDPMI; I had a hard enough time finding this one, back before I realized I already had it.

So much for *that* idea, I suppose. I'll just have to go back to trying to get my own program for the same purpose to work correctly... thanks anyway for the advice.