Balance of Power 1985
 

I have BOP 1985 but am unable to get it to run. I've tried DOS Box with no success (The DOS Box site lists it as questionable, so no real shock there) and I've tried MS Virtual PC running DOS. Still no luck. BOP 1990 runs fine under Windows, but the 1985 version ran under DOS when I bought it back in '85.

Any suggestions anyone?

Thanx,

Buddha

Are you doing a fresh install from the 3 install disks? According to the reference card a version of windows (must be a very early version) will be installed when you load from the setup disk (disk one). Could be that DOSBox has a hard time with that. Maybe it would run under 3.x. I can email you the documentation but don't put your email address here. You can PM me if you want them.

The DOSBox site lists it as broken, but says that it asks for Win1.0. So you (and they) can't say if it works in DOSBox as long as you didn't test it with Win1.0. It doesn't work under Win3.x by the way, they say.

Finally working
 

After downloading a bootable BOP 1985 image from [BEEEP], I finally got this one running using VirtualBox: http://www.virtualbox.org/.

I can't get a display using VPC, DOSBox, or VMWare, but VirtualBox handles it fine.

Thanx to all who tried to assist me.

Buddha