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DragonsphereExit game ends in DOSbox on c:(19 posts)(19 posts)
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Posted May 05, 2011
... instead of quitting dosbox, too!
Posted May 05, 2011
Yeah, that happens to me too. Just type "exit" at the prompt and it closes.
Posted May 05, 2011
But if using OpenGL, the screen turn blank?
Posted May 05, 2011
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wormholewizards: But if using OpenGL, the screen turn blank?
Not for me. I get a full screen DOS prompt upon exiting the game.
Posted May 06, 2011
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outcast1: ... instead of quitting dosbox, too!
Yup, seems to happen to everyone. Probably not a high priority for GOG since its a freebie, but, a little annoying.
Posted May 06, 2011
It's an easy fix. Go into <wherever you installed dragonsphere>/DRAGON/ and find dragon.bat. Right click, edit and type exit on a new line at the bottom.

Save, play game. Enjoy your functional quitting

It's also worth changing aspect from false to true, the game is squashed otherwise.
Post edited May 06, 2011 by eyeball226
Posted May 06, 2011
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eyeball226: It's an easy fix. Go into <wherever you installed dragonsphere>/DRAGON/ and find dragon.bat. Right click, edit and type exit on a new line at the bottom.
Worked! Cool.
Posted May 06, 2011
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eyeball226: It's an easy fix. Go into <wherever you installed dragonsphere>/DRAGON/ and find dragon.bat. Right click, edit and type exit on a new line at the bottom.
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outcast1: Worked! Cool.
Yeah, there's something a bit weird about the way DOSBox handles .bat files. I ran into this problem setting up Worms United. Why doesn't GOG sell Worms United?
Posted May 07, 2011
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outcast1: Worked! Cool.
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eyeball226: Yeah, there's something a bit weird about the way DOSBox handles .bat files. I ran into this problem setting up Worms United. Why doesn't GOG sell Worms United?
I think the problem lies with the "DRAGON.BAT" file, not with DOSBox. There seems to be some sort of nonstandard character at the end of the .BAT file which somehow prevents the exit command at the end of the "dosboxDragonsphere.conf" file to be executed. Adding an "exit" to the end of the .BAT file fixes the problem because the effect of that character is eliminated.
Posted May 07, 2011
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eyeball226: Yeah, there's something a bit weird about the way DOSBox handles .bat files. I ran into this problem setting up Worms United. Why doesn't GOG sell Worms United?
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Lafazar: I think the problem lies with the "DRAGON.BAT" file, not with DOSBox. There seems to be some sort of nonstandard character at the end of the .BAT file which somehow prevents the exit command at the end of the "dosboxDragonsphere.conf" file to be executed. Adding an "exit" to the end of the .BAT file fixes the problem because the effect of that character is eliminated.
I added exit after the weird character and it still works. Also, Worms United's batch file didn't have any weird character at the end but it still stopped DOSBox from executing the exit command at the end of the Autoexec.
I think perhaps DOSBox doesn't return to the Autoexec after running a batch file.
Posted May 07, 2011
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Lafazar: I think the problem lies with the "DRAGON.BAT" file, not with DOSBox. There seems to be some sort of nonstandard character at the end of the .BAT file which somehow prevents the exit command at the end of the "dosboxDragonsphere.conf" file to be executed. Adding an "exit" to the end of the .BAT file fixes the problem because the effect of that character is eliminated.
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eyeball226: I added exit after the weird character and it still works. Also, Worms United's batch file didn't have any weird character at the end but it still stopped DOSBox from executing the exit command at the end of the Autoexec.
I think perhaps DOSBox doesn't return to the Autoexec after running a batch file.
That is correct, but this is the behaviour DOSBox should do.
If you want to return to autoexec.bat, then you need to CALL dragon.bat
This is how DOS works and thus DOSBox as well.
Posted May 07, 2011
Thank you for enlightening me! I started using computers in the Win9x era so my experience with DOS was limited to command prompts and more recently DOSBox. I had no idea about the CALL command.
Posted May 08, 2011
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eyeball226: I added exit after the weird character and it still works. Also, Worms United's batch file didn't have any weird character at the end but it still stopped DOSBox from executing the exit command at the end of the Autoexec.
I think perhaps DOSBox doesn't return to the Autoexec after running a batch file.
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Qbix: That is correct, but this is the behaviour DOSBox should do.
If you want to return to autoexec.bat, then you need to CALL dragon.bat
This is how DOS works and thus DOSBox as well.
Ah, thank you so much for that explanation. I did not realize that the lines in [autoexec] are executed as if they were in the "AUTOEXEC.BAT". I always thought DOSBOX would execute them like from the command line, one after the other.

May I suggest renaming [autoexec] to [AUTOEXEC.BAT] in a future version to emphasize this difference? Oh wait, that would make previous config files and frontends incompatible, nevermind then.
Posted May 09, 2011
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Qbix: That is correct, but this is the behaviour DOSBox should do.
If you want to return to autoexec.bat, then you need to CALL dragon.bat
This is how DOS works and thus DOSBox as well.
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Lafazar: Ah, thank you so much for that explanation. I did not realize that the lines in [autoexec] are executed as if they were in the "AUTOEXEC.BAT". I always thought DOSBOX would execute them like from the command line, one after the other.

May I suggest renaming [autoexec] to [AUTOEXEC.BAT] in a future version to emphasize this difference? Oh wait, that would make previous config files and frontends incompatible, nevermind then.
it might be interesting to type: type z:\autoexec.bat ffor various combinations of commandline parameters and lines added to [autoexec]. Especially giving command line parameters to the dosbox executable is handled quite nicely if I may so :)
Posted October 07, 2012
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eyeball226: It's also worth changing aspect from false to true, the game is squashed otherwise.
Please, how do you do that?
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