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First post, by demalii

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Hello, I am somewhat noobish to dosbox, but in the past (.7x versions) I've be able to get a couple games to run...

I now again, am attempting to play Dragon Lore on v.74 and still am failing.. Before if I recall I could get the game to install and it would crash upon.. begining scenes.. I don't know how I got it that far..

Now when I try to run the game (mind you I have lore2.iso and loregold.iso).. now when i do the install, it doesn't.. install.. I can only get it to save the config of the setup. When I try to directly run "tales.exe" it tells me to insert disc and I've tried mounting the iso's thinking that might work, but it doesn't.

Anyways, in the end I seem to see this error a lot "dos4gw error 2001, 0Dh" general protection fault.

Anyways, so I've tried quite a few different things, and I found online a year or two ago someone put together the batch file to run this game.. I've tried that and the error 2001 comes up, I've also tried altering the dosbox.conf that was attached for the .bat

So again, I do have the game iso's so if anyone is certain of a way with those.

*edit* ohh yea, I've mounted the iso's and tried running install, but dosbox seems to break immediatly after, and nothing happens.
Thanks for any assistance! It's been too long since I've played this game..

Reply 1 of 3, by Gamecollector

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Are isos made from the your's original CDs? If you downloaded them - go bug the source.
Please tell us exact mounting commands.
To start the new installation - completely delete the gamedir (C:\DRAGON\ by default). Without this the installer only change the settings.
Hmm... Have tested Dragon Lore with vanilla DOSBox 0.74, the result is ctd after install directory selecting... Looks like the installer is crashing only with 16 Mb of RAM. Use memsize=32 in the DOSBox .conf.

Reply 2 of 3, by demalii

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Hmm, As far as I know these iso's are good.. and they worked in the past yet I was crashing early on (apparently due to dosbox).. this was a couple versions ago.. I also changed the memsize in the .conf but to no avail.

I've burnt the iso's to cd's.. and when I mount d f:\ -t cdrom and type install or tales, dosbox just goes to the next line an the cursor blinks.. I can't type any longer...

When i run tales.exe from the c:\dragon - instead of please insert cd it crashes with the code i posted before.

I don't understand why it's not working, it seems like 2 years ago when I tried this, it was simple run install and play the game.. now I can't install or play =(