As can be seen from this thread
http://www.abandonia.com/forum/index...opic=378&st=30, quite a number of people experience this problem. And I don't think it's because of not using DOSBox, 'cause it happens to me as well either way (with or without DOSBox).
I don't think it has anything to do with specs either, 'cause I can play other games like KQ1, KQ2, KQ6, SQ1, SQ4, SQ5, Kyrandia, Kyrandia 2, Kyrandia 3, Veil of Darkness, PQ1, PQ3, PQ4, QfG1, QfG3, QfG4, QfG5, Monkey Island 2, and a bunch of other abandonwares nicely with/without DOSBox. Anyway, my specs: Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz, 256MB Memory RAM, and ATI 16MB VGA RAM.
I think the problem lies in the archive. Maybe one of the files inside is corrupted or something.