inside dosbox that will not work.
as dosbox wants filenames shorter then 8 characters
gfxpalette is too long.

Maybe try running that game under Windows.

If you are running XP and it does not work under it nor under DosBox, then it is just another of the games designed for Win 9x that shows you a middle finger in Win XP. You might try the Properties--->Compatibility tag, but that's last resort and doesn't always work.

All the games that I play in DosBox run in slow motion. How many cycles and frame rates are needed for the games to run normally ?

guys i have ultima 7 downloaded and also syndicate, for ultima 7 it says i need to remove the ems memory function as it wont run otherwise. Great site btw, i really like it and hope to be spending more time here. I have sound problems with syndicate also but i see that thats in another thread.

thanks again for your help.

i need to find out how to remove the ems function btw in case prev post wasnt clear enough.

If you're playing in dosbox, then you just need to configure the dosbox.conf file. In the file you have the option to disable ems memory. If you're playing in DOS or Win98, I'm not 100% sure but try this: go to 'run' from the start up menu, then type in sysedit, then from there you configure either the autoexe.bat or config.sys - I forgot which but it's the one which has the entry for EMMS. There, you add NOEMS at the end of the line which refers to EMMS.

ive found the line that says ems mem but ive typed disable into it and also ive typed false (as it originally listed ems value as true) and neither seemed to want to disable it. i dont know much about this sort of stuff so any more help would be appreciatied.

i use "advanced game loader" as dosbox frontend

http://www.sven-of-nine.de => download

sites in german

give it a try

a42

DOSBox newbie here...

When I tried to install Destruction Derby under XP without DOSbox, I got the message that I couldn't run it on this PC because it only had 2048KB ram and the game needed 6144KB ram. So I tried DOSbox next...

When I tried to install the game using DOSbox, I did the following:
Started DOSBox
mount F F:\ (to see my CDrom where the game CD is)
mound C D:\ (because I wanted the game install to see hard drive D as C during install)
Those worked OK, but then when I ran the INSTALL.BAT on F:, I got the message that I couldn't run the game on this PC because I needed MSCDEX drivers installed.

Weird. It obviously could SEE the cdrom drive because it was already running the install.bat (and INST.EXE) from the cdrom.

How do I configure DOSBox so that it looks like it has MSCDEX drivers in it?
I remember the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT each need a line, but I forgot the exact syntax for each. Can someone help me out here?

Follow this tutorial, and that game should work fine with it. (But you need fast machine to run it)