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First post, by Lord Byron

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First post is a help request >.<

Anyhoo, I'm trying to get Cavewars 1.10 to run with DOSbox 0.63. It's listed as supported, and there is a comment saying that the latest CVS fixes the problem I'm having (evidently not for me). I get "Illegal write to da100b30 Illegal read from 1002f7c0 Illegal read from 1002f7c1" continually on startup, usually followed by a crash or just a black screen. I tried NOLFB as suggested, but it didn't seem to fix the problem, and I'm not sure I got the implementation right.
None of the other posts regarding cavewars referenced this problem, but
there seems to be a solution to this somewhere, so if someone could pinpoint it for me I'd gladly paypal them my firstborn.

Here are my specs, just in case:
XP Pro SP2
512 RAM
ABIT motherboard (I don't know what kind)
Creative SB Live!
Radeon 9550
(I've read the manual 😜)

Profuse thanks in advance.

Reply 1 of 3, by Lord Byron

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Upon closer examination of the other posts I found a link to the 1.11 patch on The Patches Scrolls. Unfortunately this didn't work, but the game version is now 1.11.

Reply 3 of 3, by Lord Byron

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Yes, and they don't adress the problem I'm having. In both instances the game starts, but in my case it isn't functional at all. Both reference a 'limited framebuffer' that sounds to me like it could be my problem, but it was my understanding that NOLFB is supposed to fix that, and other potential solutions are beyond my technical scope. It mentions that the 1.20 patch fixes this problem, but the link provided was down. Seems the 1.20 patch could be the answer?

*Edit* - After some dedicated webtrawling I located the 1.20 patch, and no such luck. Same glitch, same time, same place. 🙁

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