hmm for dosbox try disabling dpmi.
(make a configfile: look for dpmi)

futher try playing the game without sound. (some protected mode games have sound issues under dosbox)

Per your suggestions i went back and gave dosbox a whirl, i disabled the sound emulation and low and behold the game loaded and plays without a hitch. It was a bit slow to begin with but upping the emulation speed fixed that in no time.

Now its time for some serious Smiteing of the Horde

Many many thanks

Locash

I'm interested in running horde too.
but I don't know how to deactivate sound or this dpmi you said.
can you please tell me exactly how?

Originally posted by Karnegon but I don't know how to deactivate sound or this dpmi you said.

Load up your DosBox configuration file, find the [dos] group near the bottom of the file and change it to read:

dpmi=false

ok, my dosbox config file didn't have this option written, but I wrote what you told me to write. Still it doesn't work, actually it quits dosbox when I try to run the horde. tell me about deactivating sound for me to see if it helps

I think you have to search in the directory of the horde for a sound utility.

it mostly called setup.exe
or setsound

But as this game uses dos4/gw the game is protected mode. and will not work in dosbox 0.58.

The one who got lucky probably used an unsupported build of dosbox.

I advice you to wait for the next version of dosbox.

Originally posted by Qbix I think you have to search in the directory of the horde for a sound utility.

Unfortunately, Horde doesn't have this. It's either an auto-detect system or "hard-coded". About the only way to disable audio would be to disable the DosBox audio (in it's config file).

But as this game uses dos4/gw the game is protected mode. and will not work in dosbox 0.58.

Didn't work in the last CVS I had either. It's very picky.

Hello, thought i would put my config file up for getting the horde running under Dosbox with the latest CVS build. Unfortunatly sound does not work at all but the game is fully playable.

[sdl]
# SDL related options.
fullscreen=false
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
nowait=true

[dosbox]
# General Dosbox settings
language=
warnings=0

[render]
# Available scalers: scale2x, none
frameskip=0
keepsmall=false
snapshots=snaps
scaler=none

[cpu]
# The amount of cycles to execute each loop. Lowering this setting will slowdown dosbox
cycles=10000

[mixer]
# Nothing to setup yet!
nosound=true
freq=22050
blocksize=2048
wavedir=waves

[midi]
# Set midi output device,alsa,oss,win32,coreaudio,none
mpu401=false
device=default
config=

[sblaster]
# Sound Blaster related options.
base=220
irq=5
dma=1
hdma=5
sbrate=22050
enabled=false
adlib=false
cms=false
cmsrate=22050

[disney]
# Nothing to setup yet!
enabled=false

[speaker]
# PC-Speaker and TandySound options.
enabled=true
pcrate=22050
tandy=false

[bios]
# Nothing to setup yet!

[dos]
# Setting a memory size to 0 will disable it.
emssize=4
xmssize=8

[autoexec]
# Add here the lines you want to execute on startup.

Thank you I hope it will help others.

Maybe oneday the game will run with sound.....

I just tried the Horde after reading this thread, and it works fine with sound for me - I just needed to disable DPMI. This is using the build from ~9/Oct.

Current CVS and I cannot get the horde to work. It looks like a GUS problem to me.