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#1 2018-02-08 20:17

rafaelramos
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From: Brazil
Registered: 2016-07-19
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DOSBOX Closing When Try Run a Game

Good afternoon,

Has anyone used DOSBOX on Q4OS to play old DOS games?

I installed DOSBOX through the package manager, I mounted a "C:" drive with a folder with DOS games and when I try to open any of them, the DOSBOX window simply closes itself without presenting any error message...

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#2 2018-02-08 20:49

JimW
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Registered: 2015-12-08
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Re: DOSBOX Closing When Try Run a Game

You may have already thought of it, but have you tried starting doxbox from a terminal? That should echo any errors.

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#3 2018-02-08 23:33

crosscourt
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Re: DOSBOX Closing When Try Run a Game

Refer to this and see if anything helps,
www.tecmint.com/dosbox-runs-old-ms-dos-games-and-programs-in-linux/

Last edited by crosscourt (2018-02-08 23:34)


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#4 2018-02-23 20:54

rafaelramos
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From: Brazil
Registered: 2016-07-19
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Re: DOSBOX Closing When Try Run a Game

JimW wrote:

You may have already thought of it, but have you tried starting doxbox from a terminal? That should echo any errors.

@JimW, it was really a good idea! smile

By the terminal, after the DOSBOX close, it presented the following error message:

Exit to error: DRC64: Unhandled memory reference

And this topic has helped me: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=857341

I uninstalled the official version of the repository, downgraded to jessie's version 0.74-4 (downloaded .deb and installed via dpkg) and it's working now!

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#5 2018-02-23 21:00

q4osteam
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Registered: 2015-12-06
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Re: DOSBOX Closing When Try Run a Game

rafaelramos wrote:

I uninstalled the official version of the repository, downgraded to jessie's version 0.74-4 (downloaded .deb and installed via dpkg) and it's working now!

You don't need to downgrade dosbox. You only need to replace 'core=auto' with 'core=normal' line in the '$HOME/.dosbox/dosbox-0.74.conf' config file.

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