First post, by Netskimmer
Motherboard: ASUS P4P 800
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz (not overclocked)
RAM: 512 DDR
VID Card: ATI Radeon 9600XT 128 MB AGP
Sound Card: Creative Audigy 2
OS: WinXP Pro SP1
Game: Gateway II: Home world
Problem: When the game gets to an animated sequence DOSBox crashes with this error: PIT: Timer 0 set to unsupported bcd mode
Reproducibility: Every time animations play
Sound Mode: selected Sound blaster in setup menu (?)
Video Mode: Default resolution (don’t think you can change game res. setting.) Game only offers software rendering. DOSBox res. is default setting
Ver. of Emulator: DOSBox 0.60 & 0.61, no sound emulator
Steps: There are other threads about this that suggest skipping the animations will avoid the crash. This works but you don’t get the see the story unfold.
According to the other posts and the DOSBox web sit, this game works for ver. 0.60 but not 0.61 so I downloaded 0.60 but I am still having the same problem.
I have read the DOSBox readme file.