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First post, by Caustic63

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Hey I downloaded the old game Stargunner from the Apogee website as well as downloading and familiarizing myself with DOSbox. I followed the tutorial to the letter, up to the point where I went to run the "stargunnerfreeware.exe" file that I was given when i downloaded the game off the site, and DOSbox told me it was an "illegal command". I tried it again and again trying to achieve the exact spelling of the file and I kept getting "illegal command" over and over again.

Am I doing something wrong or is DOSbox just not acknowledging the file?

The file name is "stargunnerfreeware" and its the .exe type.

I got up to the point where it was reading C:\STARGUN> which is the folder I put it in, but it doesn't seem to want to acknowledge the .exe file as existing. I've tried everything, please help!

Reply 1 of 6, by DosFreak

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IIRC, the DOS games at the 3drealms site are already configured with DOSBox included. So all you have to do is download them, click on it, it installs and you play.

Last edited by DosFreak on 2009-09-27, 06:20. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 2 of 6, by Caustic63

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I have tried to run "stargunnerfreeware" on it's own, but I recieve an error message that looks like this:

"stargunnerfreeware" is not a valid Win32 application

The file is also only 94Kb, so it's possible it's a misdownload.

Reply 3 of 6, by leileilol

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Yep. Stargunnerfreeware should be a 40mb+ Win32 self-extractor that does not ship with DOSBox itself.

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Reply 4 of 6, by Caustic63

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Ok I got it working using Dosbox... this program is amazing.

That being said though Stargunner is running way too fast to play properly... any idea how I can slow it down so I don't lose all 4 lives in 4 seconds?

Reply 5 of 6, by eL_PuSHeR

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Reply 6 of 6, by Qbix

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run it in dosbox
and type
cycles=15000 before starting the game

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