For months now, I have been struggling with getting Tradewars working again
under linux. It was working but, sometime back in June, the EXTERN program
began crashing my DOS maintenance BAT. By "crashing," I mean it was
closing the dosemu window entirely, without a visible error message.
I tried running EXTERN under dosbox, as well as BIGBANG, and get the
following error:
File Error (1) - (filename).DAT : Invalid Function
filename = the name of the DAT file that the programs are presumably
attempting to access at that moment (it varies, depending on the program
and function).
I thought that upgrading to the latest version of debian caused this, as
that version of dosemu did cause other issues with other programs. I
downgraded dosemu to the previous working version and, although all the
other BBS issues went away, the TW issue is still happening.
I do not remember doing anything special to the dosemu settings to get this
running... did any of you all that have tradewars working?
Some other things I tried... I went back to the OS/2 box I migrated the BBS
from, and the EXTERN program runs fine there. I copied all of those files -
DAT, EXE, and the whole directory structure - from the OS/2 box to the
linux box and the problem immediately returned, as in first time I ran
EXTERN.
As stated, I tried BIGBANG-ing the universe over again, and that program
crashes, too. I have NOT yet tried a fresh install... I need to locate my
registration info before I do that.
I even tried copying a fresh-from-OS/2-install copy over to a DOS-formatted
device (thinking maybe I was running into an upper/lower case issue),
mounting that device to linux, and running TW from there. Same issue.
Tradewars was the one door I liked playing myself, so I would like to get
it running again. Thanks for any assistance.
Mike
P.S. FWIW, I am running TW under a DOS BBS that is also running in dosemu,
the same one it ran under when it was on the OS/2 box, and not under SBBS or
Mystic. However, any input may still be relevant. :)
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