What game?

EArth 2140

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the mount points look allright.
Try typing
ems off
xms off
before typing install.exe

Ok, will try that. Thanks.

hello, I have the Italian CD version of Earth2140 and I'm experiencing the same problem.
Even if I type in ems off and xms off before launching install.exe, DosBox will crash out

Could you be more precise? How does it crash out? Any error messages? How do you mount your drives?

ok I'll try
no error messages, it just quits to the desktop after few seconds when I type the command... exactly like typing exit

I mount my drive in the autostart section of the Config file:

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount c c:\oldgames
mount d d:\ -t cdrom
c:

DOSBox version?

Can you start DOSBox from a CMD-prompt?

Can you start DOSBox with the -noconsole option? If so, do you see files called stdout.txt and stdout.err in the CMD-prompt directory?

0.72

yes i can start dosbox without teh consol, but if i type dir those filea are not present

Not present? Where? After DOSBox exists, you don't see the stdout/stderr files with a DIR from the CMD-prompt?

exactly.
if i open the dos prompt and go to c:\programmi\dosbox-0.72 (the dir where dosbox is installed) and I type dir to list the files, I have no trace of those files

you forgot the important step. Once you are in c:\programmi\dosbox-0.72 run Dosbox by typing
dosbox -noconsole

Then in Dosbox try to install Earth 2140 again. When Dosbox closes, you should have these two files in the directory (but don't run dosbox again).

aaah now i see... there's only one: stdout.txt... not the .err

You are a little dense, aren't you WK? How about showing us what the stdout.txt file contains?

this is what the file contains:

DOSBox version 0.72
Copyright 2002-2007 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL.
---
CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file C:\Programmi\DOSBox-0.72\dosbox.conf
MIDI:Opened device:win32
Exit to error: CPU:GRP5:Illegal Call 7

Okay - somehow DOSBox tries to execute some illegal instruction in the game.

Can you try different CPU cores? Are you using some kind of front-end when you start DOSBox?

it crashes with any of cores: auto, normal, simple and dynamic

what is a front-end?

> what is a front-end?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dosbox#Frontends

> it crashes with any of cores: auto, normal, simple and dynamic
Hmm. Not good 🙁

Have you tried reinstalling it in a new, clean C-drive? Create a new C:\oldgames2 folder and mount that with:

mount c c:\oldgames2

and then install the game from the CD?

Also, try disabling the sound-devices in your dosbox.conf (gus=false, sbtype=none, ....) before installing/configuring/running the game.