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Error in making my game work

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First post, by I.High

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I have done everything as was said in wikipedia tutorial. But program dosbox failed I typed last thing (mygame.exe). Error was this ' this program cannot be run in DOS mode'. What can I do?

Reply 2 of 27, by I.High

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not all games are dos?

Reply 3 of 27, by leileilol

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DAMN RIGHT. You're trying to run a Windows game.

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Reply 5 of 27, by I.High

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so what can I do..?

Reply 7 of 27, by I.High

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all is available for me is win7. no xp.

Reply 9 of 27, by Davros

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ps: the command would be lagsters not lagsters.exe
(but maybe dosbox accepts that)

ps: the game is from 2004 not exactly old and certainly wouldn't run in win 3.1
win 7 should be fine

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Reply 10 of 27, by wd

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(but maybe dosbox accepts that)

Of course dosbox accepts running an executable with the .exe extension included,
but if you read the thread closely it's still a windows executable.

Reply 11 of 27, by I.High

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lagsters aint that old but it doesnt work fine on win7. just on xp.

Reply 12 of 27, by I.High

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and my system is 32-bit, but error still appears.

Reply 13 of 27, by I.High

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and about that .exe thing. You can take the games icon and drop it on the dosbox, same as programming stuff. Error still appears as in the image.

Reply 14 of 27, by wd

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I'll repeat this: DOSBOX IS FOR DOS GAMES AND YOU HAVE NO DOS GAME HERE.

Reply 15 of 27, by Dominus

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You don't get it... Don't run the game in Dosbox. DOSBOX CAN'T RUN THIS GAME...
Dosbox is for dos games not Windows games. This is a Windows game.
As long as you keep on trying to run this gamewith dosbox you will see this error. ALWAYS!

Edit: wd beat me to it 😉
Next post I'd suggest that we've been trolled

Reply 16 of 27, by I.High

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sorry...I got it know. But maybe theres something else I can do to make this game work..?

Reply 18 of 27, by I.High

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its lagsters. game from original CD. I played it on XP. When I try to start there appears a massage 'register xml error' and nothing happens.