Well I recently had a nasty urge to play the horde so I grabbed dosbox off of portage and found The Horde from an abandonware site. Yes, I read previous posts about the game and I also tried the latest stable release as well as from cvs.

The game fired up fine the first time, it was amazing! It ran a little choppy so I figured I'd make a config file and put in a faster emulation speed as well as automounting of the game directory. However when I started up the game again, it didn't work! The screen in the window went blank, I heard a few clicks from the speakers, and then I got some garbled text.

Since then its kind of been a hit or miss as to if it will actually work or not. 19 times out of 20 it will fail though. I've tried invoking the program exactly like I did the first time (no config file) but it still does the same thing.

I tried disabling gus, soundblaster, MPU, and added in dpmi=false in the dos section. However none of these seem to be helping.

Also, when I start the horde I get a string of errors on the konsole that read:

1Illegal write to c8000032, CS:IP      170:  170dc7

and then a bunch of similar ones follow.

Any ideas?