Dear lord... Someone, please delete the warez link, close the thread and (this is optional) ban the poster for a feeble attempt at "marketing" a lame-ass pirate website.

To the original poster: your problem is not connected to DOSBox, but to the fact that you have downloaded a pirated version of the game.

okayyyy...
i'm making no attempt at "marketing" that particular website. the game is extremely difficult to come by these days instore or online. i would email stormfront studios but they have unfortunately closed down. i personally don't have a problem playing this game even if it is slightly dodgey given the fact it is sadly shrinking away. not alot of people play this game or have even heard of it.i would love to play this game again. but good on you anyway

I was able to get Tony Larussa 3 '96 Edition to work great with a bit of tweaking.

Seems with the default settings for DosBox and the Tony96 batch file settings, the DOS4GVM memory manager causes problems and the game crashes.

Here are the DosBox 0.74 config file changes that I made:

memsize=32

xms=false
ems=false
umb=false

mount c c:\DOSGAMES
mount d c:\DOSGAMES\CDROM -t cdrom
c:
cd \tony96

I installed the game in the \Tony96 folder. Notice that I don't play the game from the cd-rom, but rather from the harddrive. This simply required copying the contents of the entire cd-rom into the DOSGAMES\CDROM folder, and issuing the above mount command in the config file.

Here is the what I now have for the contents of go.bat and tony96.bat (they are identical) that come with the game:

echo off

if exist *.swp del *.swp
if exist first.tmp del first.tmp
if exist last.tmp del last.tmp

if exist tlrb35.cfg goto frontend
setup

:frontend
echo Tony La Russa Baseball 3, 1996 Edition ver 1.01
call checkcd.bat
checkmem %1
if errorlevel 1 goto end2

:main
rem set DOS4GVM=SWAPINC#1024
main %1
if errorlevel 8 goto end
if errorlevel 6 goto draft
if errorlevel 3 goto bb
goto end

:draft
rem set DOS4GVM=SWAPINC#1024
draft %1
if errorlevel 8 goto end
if errorlevel 1 goto main
goto end

:bb
rem set DOS4GVM=VIRTUALSIZE#32768 SWAPINC#1024
bb %1
if errorlevel 8 goto end
if errorlevel 1 goto main
goto end

:end
rem set DOS4GVM=
mode co80
cls

:end2

Make sure you also copy/overwrite these bat files to the CDROM folder too, because I suspect they are sometimes run from there when the game spawns between main.exe and bb.exe, although I'm really not sure.

Also, make sure that you always run the game from go.bat (and not running main.exe directly).

That should do it!