Run setup.bat ?

Yeah I did. It detected and tested the sound stuff fine, it's just running the game that doesn't work.

Strange, setup should create ROAD.CFG . Make sure you have writing rights in the game folder.

Just did "attrib -R" to ensure nothing in there is read-only, and NTFS security is all inherited so I have write access... :s

Edit: Could I try your road.cfg file?

Ok, then I can't think of anything other than a mounting issue; did you install your game in DOSBox? If not, please do so, and keep your mounting settings the same prior to running the game. If that does not work, I'm out of ideas, sorry.

Yep I did. I've tried both from my original floppy disks (the dual-disk full version) and another from some abandon-ware site, neither worked.

Do a 'echo asdfghj > test.txt' in the directory to see if you can write.

yep that worked, used "type test.txt" to print the result of the file.

CombatGold1 wrote:

Could I try your road.cfg file?

Thanks, saving that file worked 😀
Although I get another error now: "HISCORES.HSC" not found :p

Edit: Solved this by creating a blank file. It then complained it couldn't read offset 1700something, so I just added plenty of spaces and now it works. The same happened for "CUSTOM.HSC", same solution.

Really looks like this game is having trouble writing to the DOSBox hard disk.

There is no DOSBox hard disk.
Sounds like a crappy game.

In which directory/folder/path on your real filesystem is the game installed?

HunterZ wrote:

In which directory/folder/path on your real filesystem is the game installed?

DOSBox drive C is mounted to "C:\Documents and Settings\Adam Reece\My Documents\My Applications\DOS Box\HDD".
Within that HDD folder, it then goes "\Games\Roadhog".

Attached my DOSBox configuration in case it helps.

Interesting, I didn't know that you could mount relative paths in DOSBox. I've always mounted absolute paths (e.g. mount c c:\users\public\games instead of mount c games). I don't like having programs stored under my Documents and Settings folder though - it seems as backwards as having documents and settings under Program Files :p

HunterZ wrote:

Interesting, I didn't know that you could mount relative paths in DOSBox. I've always mounted absolute paths (e.g. mount c c:\users\public\games instead of mount c games).

Yeah it works fine, I don't think it works with the Ultrasound path though. Although I don't use Ultrasound much, I seem to remember some error when I tried using a relative path.

HunterZ wrote:

I don't like having programs stored under my Documents and Settings folder though - it seems as backwards as having documents and settings under Program Files :p

heh I only keep applications/tools in there that are for me only, and don't require installers -- which are all very small applications.

CombatGold1, this is indeed a DOSBox issue. The cause of the issue is known by the devs and a fix has already been made. Thanks for reporting!

Cool beans. Perhaps I should get an SVN release of DOSBox to get the fix earlier.

it isn't commited yet.