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serveral substitutes for the dos command "choice" won't work correctly in dosbox 0.63

The one delivered with Softgold's (now THQ) "Game Box 50 Spiele" Vol 1.

works fine if you select a game but will alert runtime error 2 at 0000:0808

if you select "e" for exit.

It works on Pentium Class and ancient computers

The debug window says

---(OutPut/Input Scroll: home/end )---
22449205: FILES:file create attributes 0 file c:\~fundlau.bat
22450056: EXEC:Parsing command line: cd \
22450056: EXEC:Parsing command line: if exist c:\~fundlau.bat call c:\~fundlau
.bat
22450056: EXEC:Parsing command line: c:\~fundlau.bat
22450056: FILES:Special file open command 80 file c:\~fundlau.bat
22450056: EXEC:Parsing command line: If exist c:\~fundlau.bat goto start
22450056: EXEC:Parsing command line: cd \launch
22450056: EXEC:Parsing command line: allstart.exe
22450059: EXEC:Execute allstart.exe 0
22450059: FILES:file open command 0 file allstart.exe
22450059: EXEC:Illegal header
22787652: FILES:file open command 2 file names.dat
23194651: FILES:file open command 2 file text.dat

the same occured with the loader ofseveral issues "Bestseller Games" classic gaming magazine.

The choice program of IGC Software's porn games suffers in a similar way.

The Sole Survivor.
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