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[Spirit]

I can't run quicktime games in Dosbox (using windows 3.1).
When I had tried to run games that need Quicktime like In the 1st Degree or SPQR Dosbox tried to run the game but after one or 2 seconds it crashed.


My Quicktime version is 2.12 (but I had tried with 1.11, 0.3 & 0.1) and I tried with different Dosbox CVS versions and with the latest stable one (v.070).

I had tried too using different video drivers (s3, vga, svga, etc) but the result is always the same: Dosbox crashed and then exit the program.



Anyone knows how to get those Quicktime games to run using Dosbox?

[Virgil]

I'm using Vmware with Win 98 SE for such purposes. Everything works fine, just several games has troubles with sound playback. All games with quicktime works too.

[SortOff]

Most of all my Quicktime games work fine on WinXP. Quicktime may vary from 2.0 to 4.0.

[Spirit]

So noone got it to run Quicktime under Dosbox with windows 3.1?

[SortOff]

Nope. I guess.

[I_AM]

Like Virgil I've played Quicktime 2.x games through a virtual machine. VPC in my case I think, and maybe Qemu too. On Win95 or Win98se I forget which.

[Spirit]

I finally got those Quicktime games to work under Dosbox with Windows 3.1
The only thing that I need to do was to apply a patch in the svadriver of windows 3.1 Tested with in the 1st degree with Quicktime latest version for windows 3.1
The patch is called svaptch.

Originally posted by mirekluza in the Dosbox board:
In order to be able to use the SVGA drivers from W3.11 in DOSBOX, you must patch them to be VESA compatible.
Go to:
http://japheth.de/dwnload1.html
And download the file SVGAPtch.ZIP (run the program on SVGA driver and it will work in DOSBOX).

[InsaneFury]

hmmm, wowie!

Nice post there Spirit, I never really bothered with trying to run Windows games in DOSBox, but now I realise that Win 3.x under DOSBox might run them nicely after all. Cheers on the vesa fix too!

[stiv_ntouzos]

thanks i will try this with urban runner