Yeah, its true. Happened for me, too.
Was the setupversion which makes it possible to use general midi for music and sb for sound at the same time.

Also the soundsetting is saved inspite of the crash, so its not so bad.

Yeah forgot to mention that it still saves before crashing. I just thought it would help expose a bug somewhere.

Well just check if it's actually in v86-mode during setup.

If it's specific to CVS-builds it should be moved
to the beta forum.

I have just checked daum cafe cvs 16.07.2005 and dune's special setup works ok(i have even deleted dosbox.conf and it is still ok). I have tried some other cvses and it is ok.

Yeah seems to bo fixed with the latest cvs

Um, no I have the latest CVS (which I built myself) and it freezes, but only if memsize=32 and ems=true. If I set memsize=16 or ems=false then it no longer freezes.

wd: How do I check whether it's in v86 mode?

BTW, thanks everyone for helping to confirm the bug. Does the memsize=32 & ems=true make it freeze for you?

You answare yes to extended memory. ems is not extended memory.

I remember that dune 2 doesn't detect extended memory if you have 32MB or more (the result is that there are no digital sounds). (dosbox's default mem=16 is not without a reason)

I suppose setup will also freeze with a real pc not configured properly.

If you read the text, you will notice that the setup program uses "extended" and "expanded" interchangably. I think the game is able to use either (or maybe just EMS - I'm not sure). The setup program defnitely checks EMS or else setting EMS=false wouldn't stop it from freezing.

Also, regardless of what it does on a real PC, I thought this issue was worth nothing because - with EMS=true and memsize=32 - it freezes in recent CVS (7/9/05 and onwards) but not in the older versions (5/5/05 and older) that I tried. This could mean that emulation is now more accurate, or (more likey) that an issue has been introduced into the DOSBox source somewhere.

it says nothing about ems. actually it says: "the game needs extended memory (XMS) to play digitized samples"

EMS is obviously related somehow to the freezing issue though, as turning it off eliminates it.

However, it is also the case that if you set XMS=false and EMS=true, the setup program will report that extended memory is not available if you then try to choose Yes for that option.

heh.

"Do you want to use extended memory?"
"Do you want to use expanded memory?"
"The game needs extended memory (XMS)"

Bunch of dumbasses that wrote that setup menu.