DOSBox won't start at all

[acemarke]

Okay... I've downloaded dosbox.rar from http://mamaich.kasone.com/ , unzipped it, and copied the files to the root directory of my iPaq. I've followed the setup instructions in as far as tweaking the sound settings and autoexec stuff. When I try to run dosbox.exe, nothing happens. Period. No sign that I tried to start it. The two games I've tried to run so far are Master of Orion and Buck Rogers Countdown to Doomsday.

I've got an iPaq 3870 running WM 2003. Anyone have any suggestions? Sorry I can't be more specific, but I'm not getting any error messages or anything.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Mark Erikson

[jongjungbu]

[acemarke]

I suppose it could be the .conf file, but you'd think it would at least show SOMETHING. Currently, there's no sign that DOSBox starts at all.

That said, yeah, here's my .conf file (comments and stuff snipped). Again, thanks in advance for any help.

Mark Erikson

[sdl]
fullscreen=true
fulldouble=false
fullfixed=false
fullwidth=0
fullheight=0
output=surface
hwscale=1.00
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true

[dosbox]
language=
machine=auto
memsize=8


[render]
frameskip=0
snapdir=snaps
aspect=false
scaler=none

[cpu]
core=normal
cycles=5000
cycleup=500
cycledown=500

[mixer]
nosound=false
rate=22050
blocksize=2048
wavedir=waves

[midi]
mpu401=false
device=default
config=

[sblaster]
sblaster=false
base=220
irq=7
dma=1
sbrate=22050
adlib=false
adlibrate=22050
adlibmode=adlib
cms=false
cmsrate=22050

[gus]
gus=false
rate=22050
base=240
irq1=5
irq2=5
dma1=3
dma2=3
ultradir=C:\ULTRASND

[speaker]
pcspeaker=false
pcrate=22050
tandy=false
tandyrate=22050
disney=false

[dos]
xms=true
ems=true

[autoexec]
# attempts to start the sample and Master of Orion are
# commented out
#mount c "\Storage Card\moo\"
#mount c "\Storage Card\samp\"
mount c "\Storage Card\buck1\"

c:
#orion
#vga.com
start

[jongjungbu]

Try this:

[...]
memsize=8 or 16 (depends on how much free mem you have)
[...]
frameskip=4 (well..find the fitting value yourself)
[autoexec]
mount c "\Storage Card\moo"
c:
orion.exe



It might be rather specific on the nomenclature of the files you are calling upon, that is, you might need to include the extension.

[acemarke]

[Caesar]

Try changing nosound to "True."

[shinmai]