Hello all,

I'm a fairly new user to DOSBox, I'd been maintaining a dual-boot system with an excellent bootdisk for DOS games, but then that drive developed bad sectors and died, leaving me with XP only. Fortunately, for the most part I've found DOSBox to work well. It runs System Shock near-perfectly and that's pretty impressive.

However, when I recently acquired a copy of Gamefest: Forgotten Realms Classics I started having some problems, mostly with the oldest games present, Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds. After messing with it for awhile I came to these forums and did a search and found the answers to a couple of problems, namely the error where ti asks for Disk 3 and also finding out that Home and End are used for menu scrolling, not the arrow keys.

With this information in hand I created a party and adventured for about two hours before saving in a couple of slots and quitting. Later I came back, but found that my save game had been corrupted - every slot was taken up with the 6th character of my party. Also, the final letter of my SAVE folder was deleted in my installation - leaving only SAV.

I did a search for this problem as well, but while it seems someone else had the same issue, no one ever addressed it. I'm finding that I can slow the game down just enough with the Moslo included in the anthology to make the game playable from a Command prompt within XP, but it isn't as smooth as DOSBox and just is a little less clean in appearance as well.

The error does not occur when I run the game outside of DOSBox. The game is installed to D:\Poolrad and my confg file for the game has D:\ for the game files directory and D:\SAVE for the save directory.

I'm also concerned that this issue may recur with later Gold Box games that had mouse compatibility,and that this issue will deprive me of being able to use the mouse (something DOSBox handles well).
My system specs are as follows:

- Asus P4 motherboard
- 1.8 GhZ CPU
- 512 MB PC233 DDRAM
- ATI Radeon 9250 video card w/128 MB VRAM
- Creative Soundblaster AudioPCI 128D sound card
- Windows XP Pro
- Pool of Radiance
- This error is reproducible every time out
- For sound I have Soundblaster, Adliband Ultrasound enabled, as well as the PC Speaker
- I'm using DOSBox 0.70 and yes...I've read the Readme, as well as several other threads on these forums about running Pool of Radiance.

Any help would be appreciated. I think it must have something to do with what directories are available to the mounted drive under DOSBox and/or my save game path, but not sure what exactly.