edit: I read the readme and found out how to take a screenshot, so here it is. Turns out, it not only changes the colors, but on the dosbox console lotsa illegal read errors show. Does someone know what could the problem be? I really would like to play this classic on my pc!

Does this happen when DosBox is run in a window or fullscreen?

Have you tried different "output=" in dosbox.conf?

Thank you for replying to my post. Well, I have only tried it when dosbox is at fullscreen. I'm looking at the dosbox.conf file, dont know which values for output to use. Do you have any recommendations?

overlay or ddraw if your using the official DosBox 0.70.

If you installed your video card's official drivers then you can try opengl.

Try it in a window and see if that has any effect.

Well, I'm using the official dosbox .70 and have my video card's official drivers. I tried with ddraw and opengl and the color palette still goes wrong.

Did you set any "compatibility options" in XP like only 256 colors and so on?

If so, then uncheck these for DOSBox.

Erik.

No, I dont think I set compatibility options for dosbox.

Come to think of it, maybe it's because I have system shock in sub directory from where dosbox is installed. Is that ok?

Here´s another screenshot of the problem. Maybe it's a video driver problem?
Apparently it occurs with VGA mode 640x480, which is the mode in which i would like to play ss1

Is this a dosbox-internal screenshot (ctrl-f5 or what it is)? If so then it's
a bug in the emulation or something.
Does it occur in fullscreen only?

Have you tried forcing use of a different video mode, maybe 800x600?

> but on the dosbox console lotsa illegal read errors show.

strongly hints to a problem inside DOSBox.

Yea, it's an internal screenshot I took with ctrl-f5. Could it be a bug within dosbox? Yes, this is when in fullscreen mode. How do I force a different resolution, like 800x600?

if you have read errors then a different output/forced resolutions doesn't help.
have you tried changing the sound settings of the game ?

Which settings should I use for sound? You mean in the setup program, right?

Yep, disable it through setup.exe or install.exe
Further try with ems/xms disabled, try loadfix.

Im sorta a newbie with dosbox, how do I disable xms/ems and use loadfix?

See the dosbox.conf, or type "xms false" etc. in the dosbox window.

Ok, I will do that and reply my findings here