First post, by bluewyvern
Hi, all. I hope someone can help with this problem -- I've wanted to play Martian Dreams for years, but I keep experiencing the same bug. I remember it happened once before, I gave up and abandoned the game, now with a fresh install on a different computer, the same thing is happening.
I'm running Martian Dreams in I believe the latest version of Dosbox (I just downloaded it last week) on Vista. For a while, everything in the game was running perfectly, even the intros and sound, which I hadn't been able to get working last time I tried. Then, after a dozen or so successful saves, the game started hanging whenever I would try to save the game. After waiting a very long time, when it's apparent nothing is happening, I finally have to kill the program. When I restart the game and select continue, it loads from the last successful save point, and I can play as usual, but any attempt to save will cause the game to hang again. The same thing happened (after many dozens of successful saves) the last time I tried playing years ago. At least this time it happened within a couple days instead of after months of wasted progress.
I haven't seen any other mention of this particular bug. Is anyone familiar with this problem, or, better yet, a solution?
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