Look up Game Wizard 32.
Not linking it here since the ling would be removed because "Abandonware".

interesting

gamewizard 32 doesn't work under dosbox.

keenerb wrote on 2023-08-01, 22:45:

gamewizard 32 doesn't work under dosbox.

I haven't tried it with DOSBox. What happens?

hmm that's interesting, I suspect it'd work on virtualbox/qemu though?

The bottomline is that IDK why it doesn't work on dosbox-x but I took the latest dosbox-x and ran gwtutor.exe (using a google search for archive and Game Wizard 32 Pro 3.0) and it crashed dosbox-x with the following msg:
[...]
LOG: Flush STDIN
LOG: Flush STDIN
LOG: Flush STDIN
LOG: DOSBox-X has switched to max cycles, because of the setting: cycles=auto.
If the game runs too fast, try a fixed cycles amount in DOSBox-X's options.
LOG: Restart by keyboard controller requested
LOG: CMOS Shutdown byte 0x0a says to jump to reset vector 0b9f:05d6
LOG: E_Exit: Sorry, CMOS shutdown CPU reset method is not compatible with dynamic core
E_Exit: Sorry, CMOS shutdown CPU reset method is not compatible with dynamic core

Maybe that's why, let me know what I can try, IDK what is a dynamic core TBH.

What about using simple core instead of dynamic?

So I renamed gw. to gw.exe and ran gw.exe and it hangs on dosbox-x no idea why.

How To Get 'Game Wizard 32 Pro 3.0a' Working In DOSBox

Sorry you're right, but the save states don't work, which is precisely what I wanted to use GW3 for!

good to know, sounds like it would work on qemu or such (virtualbox) though.
at least I'd hope it would, let me know if you think otherwise.

I have used GW on PCEM without issue, not tried it anywhere else.

thanks that's great; so whatever emulates a real x86 would probably work I guess.