I understand that support is limited for Win 3.x games, but this is a generaly issue more than a specific game issue.

the game runs perfectly fine for me. However I was trying to set up a batch file to start dosbox, then kick off windows and start the game.

Now, there is an aos.exe and an as_start.exe. AOS cuts directly into a game designe dto load a scenario. AS_START opens a little menu first that allows the player to choose whether they want to load a scenario, start a campaign, or edit a scenario. Ideally, I would like to run the menu as I would want these options.

This is how the menu looks when I launch win, and double click the Age of Sail icon:

I have tried three methods of auto starting the game, and all three have the same problem. It looks like this:

The methods I used were:
Attempting to shell directly to AS_START via the shell= in system.ini
Calling AS_START via the run= in win.ini
Calling the program directly from the command line via:
win .\aos\as_start.exe

All three gave the above screenshot.

I originally had my video settings set to S3 800x600 16.7 million colors. The game, during install, warned that if it wasn't set to 256 colors it may not run properly. So I went and changed the display settings to S3 800x600 256 SF (small fonts) and tried again to the same result.

In both cases the game opens fine if I start it myself by clicking the icon, but I get the white screen with check boxes if I try to autostart it.

Would anyone mind working through this with me? Thank you muchly in advance.