I am unable to run the non-interactive demo versions of two Westwood Studios games: Hand of Fate and Lands of Lore. I'm not sure if this is caused by the same issue or not but was reluctant to create separate threads (sorry if that's a problem!).

My DOSBox is configured to run real mode stuff at 7800 cycles and protected mode limited to 26800 cycles, with core set to auto. I tried to lower the cycle count for real mode but it did not help. I also tried third-party DOSBox builds like SVN Daum but to no effect.

Other Westwood demos work fine, including the non-playable demo of Kyrandia 1, the intro demo of Lands of Lore, and a playable CD demo of the latter (the non-playable demo that doesn't work is supposed to show gameplay).