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Looks like Murphy’s Law. I tried about 20, and all of them are working. 🙂
Which are the ones you found?Kk. Try without expert settings, to see if it works. If it does, then we know something’s messed up in there, and you can decide to troubleshoot further, or just play the game this way. You really don’t need any expert settings tweaks for this game. 🙂
Could be, though in that case it should replace the filename internally. You don’t need expert settings to use the profile btw, so you could also uncheck them, and add the game via UI.
Game’s working fine for me. I hate it when that happens. 😉
So it’s obviously not a general incompatibility between an older profile and the most recent Magic Dosbox version. What happens if you use expert settings, but comment out or delete the game launch and exit commands from the autoexec section, then run the game manually from the DOS prompt?You should check the mount command in the autoexec section in expert settings. Unless you’re using the exact same phone with exact same folder structure, these will point to an invalid location. I don’t think it’s crashing, but IIRC, there’s an “exit” command in there that’s supposed to close Magic Dosbox automatically on quitting the game, but will also close it if the game exe isn’t found.
You’re right, I was referring to the “OG” Win95 version, that was commonly used with DOSBox. Patches for +2GB hdd sizes have been around for many years now, though I can’t tell how feasible it would be for Magic Dosbox. 🤷♂️
Glad your got it working. 🙂👍
And no, you’re not thick. It’s just the sheer amount of options in this app that can be quite overwhelming sometimes.
It simply grew bigger and bigger over the year. 😉Yes, it’s not included with regular DOSBox. You can download it from Github, https://github.com/Defacto2/dosbox-toolkit/blob/c1d27a4932bcc82647ef8f885e2294205d9ea21e/VirtualHD/UTILS/FREEDOS/MODE.COM
Simply put it into your virtual root drive (the folder specified as drive C: in Dosbox settings), and it should work.
Interesting question. Just a shot in the dark, but you could try the “mode co40” command at the DOSBox command prompt, or alternatively, set machine=cga in expert settings. Both should drastically increase the font size.
Fyi, mode.com is part of the FreeDOS package, and needs to be downloaded seperately. It basically does the same as CGA (40×25 text mode), but for all color modes.
