First post, by Malichite
I know there was a discussion of this back last Dec, but I figured that I would check if anyone figured out how to get Frontier: First Encounters working with DOSBox?
Yes, I know there is a Java hacked version to play the game in WindowsXP, but it would be nice to have the extra filtering modes and all the sound effects provided with DOSBox. I realize that apparently F:FE is one of those rare games that don't seem to work well in DOSBox, probably due to the fact that it was programmed completely in assembly and pulls some nasty tricks most game never think of, but figured I would ask again if anyone has found a workaround?
The actual error is encounted after the introduction video when it then complains about several "illegal instructions", an "illegal address", and lastly "trying to access a page you don't own" before crashing DOSBox completely. As others have already discussed using the typical -loadfix doesn't help since the same message occurs at a loadfix less than 500KB and the game complains it is unable to load 32RTM.EXE if a larger value is used. I have also played around with the various memory configurations XMS,EMS, and UMB with little success.
-Malichite