Re: Tradewars under linux
By: Dumas Walker to ALL on Sat Sep 23 2017 07:49 am
> 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.
are you using tw2002 and trying dpmi and non dpmi versions?
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