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[guesst]

i don't know what to say. I took a fresh computer (my in-laws) downloaded DosBox, installed it, downloaded archon ultra, unzipped it, changed the settings exactly as described, and ran the game.

It worked perfectly.

If anyone else has managed to get this game running, please let me know. All these failure stories are getting me down.

My suggestion would be that you may need a fresh dosbos.conf file. Archon Ultra is very picky. Change one too many things and kaput. To make a fresh dosbox conf file delete or rename your old one, run dosbox and type:

config -writeconf "/path/to/dosbox.conf"

(from dosbox.sourceforge.net)
then make the prescribed edits from there.

Perhaps uninstalling and reinstalling DosBox will do the trick too, but that seems a bit much to ask for one game.