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First post, by Zork

Posted on 2004-12-25, 13:54

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Hi, after obtaining a copy of "James Bond: The Stealth Affair" I attempted to run it in DOSBox using version 0.63 with VGA features and 3000 cycles. At first, all goes well, and I click OK on the first screen, but when the game goes to the early copyright protection screen, the game crashes. If I remember correctly, I did not have this problem with version 0.62 of DOSBox but I could be wrong. I have also tried an identical game called Operation Stealth (The game was released in the UK as Operation Stealth and in the US it was released as James Bond: The Stealth Affair) and Operation Stealth seems to work fine without any problems. Does anybody know how I might go upon fixing this? Thanks 😀

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Reply 1 of 10, by Snover

Posted on 2004-12-26, 07:20

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First, try it with 0.62 to confirm for certain if it didn't actually happen in that version.

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Reply 2 of 10, by Zork

Posted on 2004-12-26, 13:20

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I just tried it, and it crashed again in the same place mentioned above.

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Reply 3 of 10, by Zork

Posted on 2005-01-08, 17:16

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Got it to work. Apparently, I wasn't answering the copyright protection properly and it caused the game to crash.

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Reply 4 of 10, by Kippesoep

Posted on 2005-05-21, 23:44

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Just wondering: do you also get a lot of flickering while running this game? It's probably not DOSBox' fault, since I also get it when running with VDMSound. Quite annoying, though.

Reply 5 of 10, by red_avatar

Posted on 2006-11-13, 08:49

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Yes I got the flickering - I wonder if there's any way to get rid of it.

Reply 6 of 10, by Zork

Posted on 2006-11-16, 01:32

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In the INSTALL program, change VGA to MCGA.

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Reply 7 of 10, by red_avatar

Posted on 2006-11-16, 22:44

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Won't that affect the quality of the graphics?

Reply 8 of 10, by orieac

Posted on 2006-11-17, 13:22

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Zork wrote:
Does anybody know how I might go upon fixing this? Thanks 😀

ScummVM SVN has a WIP engine for Future Wars and Operation Stealth. Future Wars is alreaddy completable, and Operation Stealth (AKA James Bond: The Stealth Affair) should also be completable with that engine.

Reply 9 of 10, by wd

Posted on 2006-11-17, 13:23

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> Won't that affect the quality of the graphics?

Most likely they use mode13 so there shouldn't be any difference.

Reply 10 of 10, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2006-11-17, 14:47

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I have remember other two games where you are better selecting MCGA rather than VGA. In this case, speed related.

- THE IMMORTAL (By Will Harvey). Use command-line option
- OPERATION WOLF (Taito). Run with r parameter.

In both games, selecting MCGA makes them run faster/better and with no quality loss.

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