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JA1 DosBox problem[message #267504] Sun, 28 November 2010 19:41 Go to previous message
Grimbold the Unholy is currently offline Grimbold the Unholy
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Hi JA Fans.
First of all, English is not my first language^^.

I have a major problem with JA1. I know that game, spent many hours on it. Good old times:)
Now I found my old JA1 CD Rom, installed it and wanted to play.
When I start the game I come to that "command center room" in the very beginning, where the laptop is and the game options and so on.
You cannot play without mercs and therefore you have to use the laptop. But everytime i do that (clicking the laptop), the game stucks. There is a blackscreen and nothing further happens. The blackscreen remains and thats it.

The Windows dosprompt doesn't work at all. There's nothing left of DOS after WIN98.
As far as I know, DosBox is the only way for a DOS game when you have WinXP.
I use the original configuration of DosBox. Also tried some setting variations, like cycletime, without sound, and these things.
But the problem is always the same.

I remembered that there was already a premade starting team on savefile 1. Loading this works, but I cannot do anything then. All items are invisible, Mr Lucas' video message is without text and starting the day anyways results in another blackscreen.

Fazit: I cannot play the game at all.
Its an original CD, no copy, and I think the CD is ok so far.

Is there some special small thing in DosBox that I don't find?
Maybe the error is not in the game or DosBox, but in Windows or whatever?

So, please, if anyone has a real idea about that, post it. I want to play again this old favourite of mine.

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