First post, by Psyringe
First, major kudos for Dosbox 0.65. I'm impressed how well some of the most technically most complicated games work now. Two thumbs up. 😀
Now, to my problem. I recently installed Extreme Pinball. To my surprise, it works very well (smooth movement and scrolling, no sound glitches). However the game always crashes when in the "Medieval Knights" table the dragon is activated.
I tried several renderers and sound options (including no sound at all), but nothing seems to help. The problem can easily be reproduced and tested though. Just start the "Medieval Knights" table and press "d", this will activate the dragon.
One possibility is that the game archive itself was damaged - since my old DOS games rest somewhere in my parents' loft at the opposite side of the country, I downloaded this version from an abandonware site. Can someone verify this problem with the original CD?
My System: Athlon64 3500+ (Venice) on Asus A8N5X MoBo, 1GB RAM, GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB, onboard AC 97 sound, Windows 2000. Running DosBox 0.65 (standard build).
The game in question is Extreme Pinball, v 1.0
A web search revealed the site http://www.pcpinball.com/msgboard/msg.phtml?post_id=5140. Someone's mentioning that this is a "known problem" and links to a thread on the forums here, but that thread doesn't seem to exist anymore.