Turalyon

My soundcard is an onboard Realtek Ups, made a typo, I meant Port: 220 ^^ And in the game, I use the card that is offered to me, SB16, Port:220, IRQ:7, DMA:5. It works when testing it and any other setting in the setup will cause a crash of the setup program. Or more likely, it crashes because it can't verify the settings.

Ok, little update. I downloaded a x3cdfix folder from another site and unzipped it into the apoc folder. Then I used the xcom3.bat file. It skipped the intor and I can play. Sadly, as long as I use sound, the game crashes everytime I click on something but where is the fun in a game with no sound :-( Sound settings are: Port: 200 IRQ: 7 DMA: 5 - I can't use another DMA setting, once I click on something else, dosbox crashes. Oh, and it won't let me use the image, it always says at the main menu that I should put the CD back into the drive...

Have you made it run under DB 0.73? If yes, could you send me your dosbox.conf file? Edit: Last try, the message "SHELL: Redirect output to nul" appeared in the dosbox status window. Does that mean anything?

It gives me some sort of weird symbold (looks like a club from a playing card) followed by D:\ Nothing else

Dn't get me wrong. I installed the game from the CD. After the installation I changed the path to the image Ok, I started anew. Deleted the folder, started DosBox. Mounted the image as you wrote. Sound ok, setup finished successfully. Still no luck, game crashes back to the prompt after the intro.

I installed it from the DosBox command line. I tried installing it in Windows first (I use Win XP SP3) but that caused a crash of my ati2dvag.dll (I had to shut my computer off completely for a minute because it wouldn't start again after pressing reset) Before I tried DosBox, I tried Virtual PC. I have a virtual Windows 98 OS, installation worked fine, intro is running too, although the sound is a bit choppy. After the intro I see the main menu background but the options are missing (New Game, Load Game and Exit). Only when I press Escape do I see the options for a second or so before the game ends, because Escape implies Exit :-( And as for the mount e j:\ command. j: is the lcoation of my created XcomApoc.iso while the game itself is located on the e: partition. I throught I have to mount the second partition to access the iso file with the imgmoung command. Regards

Ok, tried your approach and replaced the iso at the end with cdrom, didn't work either. I don't get any error message or if there is one I can't see it because it's at the dos prompt so fast.

I did that. I created an iso image of the cd and used the imgmount command to mount it as d:\ since I can't hear the videos because the cd is going at full speed the whole time. This is the autoexec part: mount c e:\xcoma\ mount e j:\ imgmount d e:\XcomApoc.iso -t iso c:

Hello, I installed DB 0.73 and Apoc. Installation went fine, Music runs. After the intro, it crashes back to the DosBox prompt. Does anyone know, what I'm doing wrong? Regards