First post, by mhenry676
I support a program of my company that is an old DOS prog. I gave it a try in DOSBOX to avoid having to boot into DOS as the program req. EMS memory of which my computer has none available. Yes, I've tried the EMS setting under the memory TAB. AV is disabled for these locations.
As it opens files to read it will lock the file. I see the message Attempting to lock file within the program, but it just stops there. Normally, this procedure happens so fast, I never saw this message but it is coded to be displayed.
Also, I tried Starflight under DOSBOX. Game is fine, but I tried using a VGA patch that patches the COM file that opens the program to run in VGA. It says it cannot patch the file. This issue I can fix by booting into DOS, but the other issue makes it hard when I support after hours from home.
I've search these forums for answers, but nothing works. There is an old one about a CmdLineExt03.dll that is said to be installed by some games for anti-piracy, but that files does not exists anywhere on my system and the regsvr32 /u CmdLineExt03.dll command turns up can't find.
I've tried dosbox 0.63 and the CVS.
Any ideas?
PS New to dosbox. DOSBOX ROCKS! Got all my King's Quests working under XP! (5-7 is still tricky) Thank You