Read my 60 Seconds Guide to DOSBox.

If that doesn't help, come back with details on how you mounted your C and D drives, how you did the install, how you configured sound, music etc.

1st off many thanks for your reply! Ok....I read you 60 seconds layout. I'm using it exactly like you mention, but I use a file called "Oldgames" Here how I mount

1st: mount c c:\oldgames

2nd: change z to c:\

3rd: mount d D:\ -t cdrom

4th: c:cd\intrplay

5th: max\maxrun.exe

6th: Then it will strat up & I get "Screen Int Failed"

I'm using regular Sound Blaster @ 220/7/1 & tested the sound within the game. Sounds perfect! Can't get it to execute! I don't understand, I have appx. 15 games running without a hitch except this one! I'm I doing something wrong?

Thanks!

Alex

5th cd max
6th maxrun

Thanks Qbix....I use c:cd\intrplay\max\max & she is running fine now! Geez...I'm lame! I'm 42 & I 1st started out with a 486 DX2 (Windows 3.1) & knew DOS like the back of my hand! I guess it will all come back as I use DOSBOX more.

This is truly great! I'm going to donate $20.00 to the DOSBOX cause. This is the least that I can do considering I'm having so much fun right now.

Thanks everyone for your help!

Alex

thanks a lot and have fun

Hello everyone, I'm not sure if I do right to put my question here, but it's quite similar as previous one.
Few days ago, I've downloaded the new ver of DOSBOX 0.72 and sure was full of enjoinment to mind playing the M.A.X.(1.04 eng) with perfect sound output, as had some problems with that under WinXP. 🙁
So, I red "60 seconds guide" and used it in right way, tested the sound, ran the max but saw this:
DOS/4GW Professional error (2001): exception 01h at 268:00000004
TSF32: prev_tsf32 6B20
....and so forth dump to stack
than I tried to run w/o sound, but still the same
than I downloaded the earlier ver of DOSBOX 0.63 to check some ideas but the output was stucked black screen in both cases(with and w/o sound).
I'll try DOSBOX under Slack tomorrow and start max, but maybe somebody knew what the issue is?
Specs:
iCore 2 Duo
2GB RAM
nVidia graphics
X-Fi Sound

hello all!

first of all thx for Dosbox - cool tool!

currently using version 0.72
C and d mounted as described in the guide
sound is working fine (220, 5,1)

It's working fine with fantasy general and other old games

now, I keep having this problem with M.A.X when i either try to load an old game or start a new one i get this exception error (see attached image)

anyone have an idea whats wrong? many thanks in advance 😀

Just guessing here... "inifile.cpp" sounds like a part of the game that deals with reading/writing an INI-file (a configuration file).

"Assertion failed: *entry < NAME_LEN" means that some entry in that file is LONGER than expected.

Did you install the game from DOSBox? If not, that entry could perhaps be a Windows path, file name, folder name or whatever, which typically is longer than the 12 characters allowed in DOS.

MiniMax - thx for the hint! obviously i had installed it in windows not using the command shell 😳

anyways, working fine now, sound good all good! thx again