Thanks much. It seems this was (presumably) a result of a bad crack. I got my hands on a clean copy and I'm now able to play under dosbox.

Hmm, well I am using a crack, I haven't had that little red book in years, I'll have to see if I can dig up a cleaner copy and try that.. Thanks..

I'm starting to think this may have something to do with directory references. When I set my savegame directory to C:\BANE\SAVE\ earlier, it wouldn't accept it. So I tried just putting 'SAVE' in, and that seemed to work. However, there's also another directory setting which can't be modified by any …

Unfortunately it doesn't work under XP at all without the use of dosbox, so I can't verify this one way or another.

I remember this game fondly from ages ago, but when I reinstalled it today using DOSBox, I found that the only monsters I ever encounter are rats, and my characters are generally incapable of hitting anything, and them onsters are similarly incapable of hitting me. It seems like every few battles …