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First post, by silsor

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The listing for this game is here. The game may be downloaded here.

I have tested this game with dosbox 0.61 and the current CVS.

Screen after running the game:
tos1.png

This is just a message printed by the DIGPAK sound drivers. I have it configured not to use any sound at all, but I have tested it with a bunch of drivers, and with sound emulation disabled.

At this point, if I press a key, dosbox does one of the following:

  • returns to the DOS prompt, no messages in the debug log, I cannot type at the DOS prompt, dosbox still responds to function key commands
  • returns to the DOS prompt, but dosbox spams an infinite number of "CPU: Illegal Unhandled Interrupt Called 6" in the debug log, OR "CPU: Illegal Unhandled Interrupt Called 5". When this happens I cannot type at the DOS prompt.
  • exits with the message "Exit to error: CPU:GRP5:Illegal Call 7" in the debug log
  • crashes with 
    IO:WriteW:Out or range write A4 to port 6030
    Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)
  • crashes with 
    IO:WriteW:Out or range write 6 to port C61E
    Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)

This game is an ancient port to PC of an Amiga game so I expect it to be a little wonky; it never even ran very well under DOS.

Reply 1 of 14, by MiniMax

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I needed to test one DBFrontend with a game, so I downloaded Tower of Souls, and tried to run it. I can confirm what silsor writes. No matter what type of sound driver is chosen during SETUP, the TOWER game proper always complains about a wrong or missing BLASTER variable.

I even tried disabling the Sound Blaster emulation in DOSBox, and added a "SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T4" to the AUTOEXEC section, just as the game suggested, but it still refused to run.

I will try it with VDMSound later...
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Reply 3 of 14, by MiniMax

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That game is strange! I tried to run it in pure DOS (configured for no sound) and it just hang! Had to do a hard reset to get the system back.

Tried to run it with VDMSound, and the same error about a wrong/missing BLASTER variable.

silsor, if you really want to play that game, perhaps finding an Amiga emulator and the original Amiga version might work better?
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Reply 4 of 14, by Stiletto

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MiniMax wrote:

silsor, if you really want to play that game, perhaps finding an Amiga emulator and the original Amiga version might work better?

Programs with problems like this are the best to try and debug DOSBox. Have fun, Harekiet and Qbix!

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do the Fandango!" - Queen

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Reply 5 of 14, by Qbix

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thanks Stiletto 😉
Maybe it's for you a nice way to increase your dosbox debug skills as well 😉

Last edited by Qbix on 2004-03-08, 09:40. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 6 of 14, by Stiletto

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Qbix wrote:

thanks Stiletto 😉
Maybe it's for you a nice way to increase your dosbox debug skills as well 😉

What - from nothing? 😉

Sorry Peter, I don't have the time!!!

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Reply 9 of 14, by MiniMax

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robertmo wrote:

heh - this game just needs to have autoexec.bat on c:\ with set blaster somewhere (it can be remmed) 😉

Urgh!! That is ugly 😈 Will try it this afternoon, if noone else beats me to it.
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Reply 11 of 14, by Qbix

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weird though It should look for the bootdrive and look there for autoexec.bat

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Reply 13 of 14, by MiniMax

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FWIW, I added a SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T4 to a dummy AUTOEXEC.BAT in my DOSBox C: driver, and Tower of Souls started allright.

Something is wrong with the opening graphics though... After a short delay it displays a nice looking "PRESENTS..." in large yellow letters on a blue background (see snap 1). I would have expected this screen to be preceeded by a the name of company producing the game?

Next something weird happens to the palette (snap 2 and 3) before the intro runs, and the magic pen starts writing on the scroll, at which time everything looks fine.

I also tried running ToS in pure DOS with a dummy SET BLASTER in my AUTOEXEC.BAT, but it still completely locked up my PC. So DOSBox is a better DOS than MS-DOS 😁

The same happened when I tried it with VDMSound.
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Reply 14 of 14, by MiniMax

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Tried it with ripas CVS build dated March 7, 2004 - same problems with the palette.
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