I'm not particularly computer literate, especially in DOS, but I noticed that i'm having the same problems as people in this thread. I have used Dosbox in the past, but i've had no luck with my Championship manager 96/97 CD. I have managed to install the game onto my hard disk via Dosbox without any problems. But when I try to run it (CM2 EXE or GO BAT) via Dosbox, I get a black window, then back to desktop. It also closes Dosbox completely.

Please make a small BAT-file that calls MEMCHECK this way:

1memcheck 6000000
2
3if errorlevel 1 echo No dice. Can not find 6000000 bytes of memory.

Then run that BAT-file, and tells us the outcome.

If you feel really adventurous, you can make it like this:

1@echo off
2
3mem
4echo Checking for %1 bytes of memory.
5memcheck %1
6
7if errorlevel 1 echo No dice. Can not find %1 bytes of memory.

Then run it with the number of bytes to check for as the first parameter:

C:>mytest.bat 6000000

Biffco wrote:

But when I try to run it (CM2 EXE or GO BAT) via Dosbox, I get a black window, then back to desktop. It also closes Dosbox completely.

Please try starting DOSBox with the -noconsole option, and then (after DOSBox has closed down), search for 2 new files: stdout.txt and stderr.txt

I'm sorry, but you will have to talk me through those last two steps. I'm hopeless with DOS stuff. 😀

How do you start DOSBox today? From a short-cut? If so, please do a right-click on the shortcut, and tell me what it says in the Target field. It should be something like

"C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.72\dosbox.exe"

Here it is mate.

"C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.72\dosbox.exe" -conf "C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.72\dosbox.conf"

Replace it with

"C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.72\dosbox.exe" -conf "C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.72\dosbox.conf" -noconsole

Launch DOSBox, mount your drives (you know, that you can edit that "C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.72\dosbox.conf" file in Notepad and add the mount commands at the bottom of the file, right?), and do that GO thing.

Next, check if you can see the stdout.txt and stderr.txt files in the "C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.72" folder.

I have the stdout.text but there is no sign of the other one.

And the date/time on that stdout.txt file is?
Anything interesting in it?

Sorry for the delays in posting, i'm at work....

The contents of the file......

DOSBox version 0.72
Copyright 2002-2007 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL.
---
CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.72\dosbox.conf
MIDI:Opened device:win32

MiniMax wrote:

And the date/time on that stdout.txt file is?

And does it match the time when you crashed DOSBox?

On a crash the file may not be flushed so a part could be missing.