The use of DOSBox is annoying. I know why its there. When you create a party in Eye of the Beholder, elves do not show up as little green men. This expectation comes from the Lord of the Rings (1990) for DOS, when you are attacked by an orc after meeting Hawkeye the ranger. Ir was a hope that the display would change completely.

Um... What?

Is this a thread about DOSBox or a thread about experiencing DOSBox on acid?

Its about that wizard again maybe...

Have you tried it in https://dosbox-staging.github.io/v0-76-0/ as well?

Elves are not little green men. Haven't you seen the LOTR movie? Elves are tall blondies.

You are thinking of martians.

Coincidentally there was a setting that made some games look like someone had taken something psychedelic.
I think it was colour information in the old direct3d that had a few bits switched.

I remember having a borked VGA connector some years ago - the image would randomly lose blue color info, which made for some interesting "post-processing" effects in games.

But still, you can't smell the front buffer or hear trilinear filtering with just a couple of bits switched.

DOSBox, or some other emulator filling the same function, is needed in order to play DOS games on modern hardware.

It is very unclear whether your problem is the emulation or something in the game.

Here is the subforum for the Eye of the Beholder games: https://www.gog.com/forum/forgotten_realms_collection Please check there! If your problem is specifially with DOSBox, you might as well continue here.

Link to external forum for DOSBox: https://www.vogons.org

For all the work they've done they could have done Windows ports. A lot of of games were ported to Windows, sometimes when it's done the game is re-invented like the Windows version of Master of Magic on Steam.

By using DOSBox here they have prevented its updating. The compat mode doesn't work.

It's also probably holding up development of DOSBox -X which still doesn't work right and is having trouble getting fixed.

unless the game in question is open-source, like Doom, Wolfenstein3D, Quake, Rise of the Triad, Heretic, Hexen, Descent, etc.

All of these games have source ports that allow their respective games to be played outside of DOS.

Hmmm, i remember years ago making a Qbasic tool, where i replaced the built-in font with my own font. It was fairly simple, something like 4-6 connections anywhere and * used as walls, ect, then when it did a pass it would determine which one would make it look most natural as connecting walls. It was a nice little tool.

But in dosbox it wouldn't replace the font, either BIOS wasn't emulated or the functions to replace the fonts wasn't there.

Pretty sure that's probably the same problem you're experiencing.

Yes yes, but then they are not DOS games any longer :-) but yes, I should have informed about that alternative.

It is a known fact that it is oftentimes harder to make Windows 95 and 98 games work on modern systems than just use DOSBox. GOG or whoever did it making it easier for themselves.

Source port, that's what is called?

Who is "they"?
And what kind of "updating"? It's an old game - the old developer doesn't exist anymore, and the current publisher let GOG sell the game "as is" (=the game itself is still the same).
I still don't understand your "problem".