Install it within dosbox, so the paths are consistent.

Unfortunately I don't have the installer just a copy from and old computer. I would like to know more about the consistent path issue though. Does something get changed around in dosbox? I replicated the same path as the old computer c:\brada\ in dosbox.
Thanks.

If you normally (XP/whatever) have the program in c:\brada, then putting
it (the program) into c:\test\brada would lead to mounting c:\test as your
c drive in dosbox. It looks like you did that correctly, but maybe make sure.

Try disabling ems/xms, and type loadfix before starting the program, as well
as combinations of that.

So in XP when you have it working it's in "C:\brada\brada"?

and when you mount it in DosBox you do a "mount c c:\brada"?

Does the programs expect to be in \brada or \brada\brada (because when you do a "mount c c:\brada", then the program only sees "C:\brada")

Damn you WD! Too fast! 😀

Thanks for the quick replies.

The application doesn't seem to care where it's being run. Tried from c:\brada\ and c:\brada\brada\. It runs fine even from a folder on my desktop in XP. It doesn't use any subfolders, it's likely a very simple application.

I've tried several different combinations with playing with xms, ems and umb including completely off without change.

Is that program freeware or is some shareware/demo of it available that
exhibits the same problem?

Damn you WD! Too fast!

+1 boredom points for me i'd say 😉

Actually it looks like I might be wrong about the disk read/write. I setup Process Monitor from sysinternals and watch the application in xp and in dosbox. It's actually is reading program data files fine. When I enter in the project name (where it stops in dosbox) even in pure xp it doesn't create any files as I first though (likely does once I enter in more information).

I'm going to fiddle with more conf options. If anyone has further thoughts...
thanks.

Maybe run it in the debugger-enabled dosbox build (see the development forum)
and watch the debugger window.

[quote="wd"]Is that program freeware or is some shareware/demo of it available that exhibits the same problem?
[quote]

There doesn't seem to be any links to this application on Boston Redevelopment Authority website or google. I'm unsure of it's licensing. I'll see if I can contact someone at BRA about that.

WOW.

I was able to take a screen shot of the splash screen that comes up very quickly. It was written on Sept 1985! Wiki says it would have been dos 2.11!

Type something like "cycles 200" to maybe watch the splash screen longer.
If you suspect the reported dos version to be relevant, try "ver set 3.0" and similar.

You can also trying creating an hard drive image with bximage (included with Bochs).
Install MS-DOS on the HD image using DosBox and a mounted floppy image.
Then open up the hard drive image with Winimage and copy your program over to that.

There's instructions around here somewhere I'll see if I can dig them up. The process should be a little easier now that the autodetect feature for HD images was introduced.