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First post, by VileR

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Ancient DOS Games mentions that this game has been broken since 0.72. Debugger shows that it's stuck in a loop, writing and reading from port 43h (timer control register); seems like it's expecting a value that is never received.

Bug? or should the pending rewrite of DOSBox's timer emulation take care of that?

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Reply 3 of 3, by coolhaken

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About BlockBuster :

This game will crash If there is a mouse driver loaded in memory but no "Mouse System Serial Mouse" detected.
We know DOSBox 0.74 doesn't support "Mouse System Serial Mouse" at present.
So it works fine if "Turn Off" the mouse driver.
A small TSR named "MOUSEOFF" wrote by ripsaw8080 can be found here :
Re: Mouse problem
Run "MOUSEOFF" before playing the game.
The chief defect is no mouse control ...
If you want to use mouse, try the newest version of PCE 😉
http://www.hampa.ch/pce/