Usind Dfend Reloaded/Dosbox under Windows XP SP3 I got Master of Magic to run. Even with the intro movie and with sound.
However every time I try to cast the spell for Item creation the game crashes back to the desktop.
As far as I know the game has to run Itemmake.exe for item creation.
Is that a known problem with Master of Magic and is there a way around this?
Both the item creation spells seem to work ok here (XP, dosbox 0.74, dynamic core, MOM v1.31), as does running Itemmake.exe directly.
Edit: Maybe the game can't write to ITEMDATA.LBX or some other important file (set as read-only?)
Any errors in the dosbox status window when it crashes?
wrote:Both the item creation spells seem to work ok here (XP, dosbox 0.74, dynamic core, MOM v1.31), as does running Itemmake.exe directly.
Edit: Maybe the game can't write to ITEMDATA.LBX or some other important file (set as read-only?)
Any errors in the dosbox status window when it crashes?
I´m using the fanmade patch 1.40j that builds on the last official patch 1.31 from here:
http://www.realmsbeyond.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4211
No, no errors. Just quits the game and drops back to the desktop where Dfend Reloaded still is running - just the DOSBOX in which the game ran quits without any errors whenever I try to use the spell to create an item.
No Itemdata.lbx is not read-only.
I used emulation core "auto" with "max" cycles. Dynamic is supposed to be faster but less stable?
Don't use frontend, mount and install manually, then run the MoM. Tell us the results.
Asus P4P800 SE/Pentium4 3.2E/2 Gb DDR400B,
Radeon HD3850 Agp (Sapphire), Catalyst 14.4 (XpProSp3).
Voodoo2 12 MB SLI, Win2k drivers 1.02.00 (XpProSp3).
I disabled that dosbox is automatically closed when the program is closed - and the next time the program crashed dosbox stayed open and an error was given:
ITEMPOW.LBX [entry0] has an incorrect record size.
Itempow.lbx is a file from Master of Magic
Edit: On the http://www.realmsbeyond.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=60
forums for Master of Magic it was stated that this error comes from a compatibility issue with the fanmade 1.40j patch and using a german CD-ROM Version of Master of Magic. So it´s no issue of DOXBOX and can´t be resolved here 😢
