[Mageslayer needs dos prompt but incompatable with dosbox]

I think I sorted it out, I remembered I had a similar problem with diablo 2, so I did what I did with that and I think it worked.

In case anyone wanted to know how I got it to work, I made a shortcut to the game with -w -nofixaspect added to target in properties and then launched it direct from the shortcut.

I have no idea now why dosbox helped at all ever. Sorry for wasting your time everybody.

[Mageslayer needs dos prompt but incompatable with dosbox]

I get a dosbox window with the game mounted if that's what your asking.

sorry I had a dumb moment, I'm testing the batch through launchbox.

[Mageslayer needs dos prompt but incompatable with dosbox]

With start no game window, without it I get nothing at all.

[Mageslayer needs dos prompt but incompatable with dosbox]

It's not mounting the game, it seems like the game needs to be mounted.

when I drop the mageslay.exe onto the dosbox icon it starts displaying lines of code that get added as actions are performed ingame, this dosen't happen when I use the batch file.

[Mageslayer needs dos prompt but incompatable with dosbox]

3 minutes ago, syntax_X said:

Dosbox can be a bit tricky, I had to use START in the batch to avoid a CMD confict. 
But it worked when you used dosboxportable as an additional app so it should of worked. 

I changed it back to the way I had it before and it's throwing the same error

[Mageslayer needs dos prompt but incompatable with dosbox]

That didn't work, mageslayer crashed with a fatal error an gave a code address of c00005

[Mageslayer needs dos prompt but incompatable with dosbox]

Cool thank you.

[Mageslayer needs dos prompt but incompatable with dosbox]

Will Mageslayer still be able to access DOSbox for code interpretation when a map transition occurs? DOSbox has to stay open the whole time Mageslayer is running will this close DOSbox and leave Mageslayer open?

[Mageslayer needs dos prompt but incompatable with dosbox]

oh sorry it's early where I am.

D:\Games\Mageslayer\DOSBoxPortable\DOSBoxPortable.exe

[Mageslayer needs dos prompt but incompatable with dosbox]

D:\Games\Mageslayer\mageslay.exe is the full path if you need it for anything.

Are you cafting me a batch file?

[Mageslayer needs dos prompt but incompatable with dosbox]

It stays open. There is a "wait on exit." toggle does that work for fixing that?

[Mageslayer needs dos prompt but incompatable with dosbox]

Thank you syntax_X, that worked for me, I had no idea launchbox could do that, I got it in a drawing and don't alot about it's functions. This has been a real learning experience for me.

Thank you everyone for your time.

 

[Mageslayer needs dos prompt but incompatable with dosbox]

It is a Windows 95 game, however a lot of Windows 95 games required a DOS window to be open while certain parts of the game are gotten to, in Mageslayer it is the map stitching that causes a hang when no DOS window is open. Windows 7 has no DOS anything whatsoever, same for XP, Vista, 8, 8.1 and 10.

So even though, mageslayer is not a DOS game per say, I do need DOSbox open while I play it, for it to function normally.

[Mageslayer needs dos prompt but incompatable with dosbox]

thank you. at least now I know there is hope. I would search it but I'm realy bad at turning things into valid google searches.

[Mageslayer needs dos prompt but incompatable with dosbox]

Hello,  I would like to launch Mageslayer through Launchbox, however I have a slight issue, The map stitching in Mageslayer requires a dos propt window to be open, DOSbox cannot launch this game. Leaving DOSbox open seems to work favorably, however DOSbox closses upon opening Mageslayer this way through Launchbox. Is there a way to suppress DOSbox from closeing when it realizes the game is not compatable?