Hey guys,
A week or so ago, Launchbox was working fine and I was playing all these old MS-DOS abandonware games that I got in a big ole pack.
Between then and now, something happened where, I think, Launchbox tried to update itself and I aborted that procedure prematurely. The reason for canceling the update was because I thought it was something else, and only figured after the fact what was really happening.
When I tried to restart LaunchBox afterwards, it gave some sort of error. I think that some NET 3.0 files were missing or some such. Well, no worry I thought to myself, I'll just install the new version cleanly. That worked, but I've not gotten my games to work ever since.
My problem is that, no matter how I point Launchbox to my stash of MS-DOS games, something goes wrong. If I 'add games' and select MS-DOS and go through the motions, it tends not to find any but the very first game in the list of about 1700. Despite me pointing to a folder that contains them. If I grab all the games and drag them into Launchbox, I get the screen asking me what kind of games they are and whether I want to run them from their spot or move/copy them. Whatever I choose there, populating Launchbox with the games goes well (and all the metadata is created correctly, the games are recognized and the right images are found for its cover, etc.) but whenever I try to launch them, I get the error that I've attached as an image.
Mind you, running the setup/configuration *works* and starts up in its Dosbox window (!). But starting the actual game, doesn't. I've checked the MS-DOS platform XML file to see whether there's anything wrong with the path and have tried some tinkering, but it all looks fine. The games run when I start them manually, also (Dosbox).
I've tried reinstalling Launchbox completely, tried all the other various ways of adding the games, nothing seems to work. Does anyone have any idea what's causing this and how I can fix it? Should I try version 11.8 and see if that works? That's the one that worked originally.
Thanks in advance...