Another ancient game I've been testing... it produces a "Reboot requested, quitting now" message, without further details.
I can't confirm this, because it works on my machine. There's a slight chance it's corrupted or copy protected. FaceMaker should be a booter game by Spinnaker Software, so I just booted the image in DOSBox and it worked. Tried 0.74 and latest SVN, and both seems to be working just fine. Used the default config file, but the game is a little bit fast so I had to lower the cycles a bit. Apart from these I don't have any other issues.
My copy isn't a booter image, that says it all. Probably some cracked copy that *might* work under real DOS but not under DOSBox. Also found this:
reboot requested, quitting now
IIt mentions the message might occurr when a game tries to use NT 18h.
Thank you. I just took a look at the game folder: it only consists of two files, a booter image and a FMK.EXE, which is what caused the issue.
Directly booting the image works fine. FMK.EXE must be a way to circunvent copy protection under real DOS.
If the FMK.EXE is the same as the one discussed in the other thread, you can mount any floppy image on A: and it will be happy.
Other booter games seem to have similar issues... I think "Star Boxing II" also needed a floppy to work. Anyway, thanks for the suggestion, but I've already deleted FMK.EXE and the image works fine, so I'd say this is a closed case.
FYI, the disk image and FMK.EXE are not the same version of the game. So, just to let you know what the differences are:
The disk image version is written in Forth, has "windows" for each of the 4 main options of the menu, and does NOT play music with the machine=pcjr setting.
The FMK.EXE version is NOT written in Forth, does NOT have "windows", and plays music with the machine=pcjr setting.
