DOSBoxxing MoM

Upgrading your PC can be a perilous thing. While a PC can ostensibly play most computer games made in the history of this world, often a new version of Windows will no longer run old DOS games. A those early works you might want to study inaccessible!

Case in point: the classic Civilization-clone that one-upped Civ itself, Master of Magic. A UK developer called SimTex replaced "culture" and "technology" with "mana" and "spell-research," and "the huns" with "lizardmen" and ended up with an excellent ten year old strategy game that people are still trying to make run in Windows XP.

Well, they won't have to try any more - the next generation of pre-1993 DOS emulation has arrived. After some starts like VDMSound, finally DOSBox has solved pernitious extended memory problems to run Master of Magic (with sound!) after just a little bit of command-prompt tweaking. Now I'm trying to configure DOSBox to keep my MoM saved games.

Comments

[Dave]

Holy Crow, I never thought I'd see Master of Magic mentioned again in my life. That brings back memories--this was one of my all-time favorite games, though even back in the day I had trouble getting it to run on even half the computers I had access to.

It had a lot of endearing quirks, too... that alien superhero guy was fun, and it was especially cool that your flying units didn't get infinite movement among ley lines (or whatever those glowing things were in the flipside world) like the much smarter ground-based units did.

[antares]

I was very excited by this, until I found DOSBox doesn't support protected-mode DOS games (anything using DOS4GW.EXE). I've been able to use DOSEMU in linux to run some (not as) old SSI classics like the Eye of the Beholder series (and Dark Queen of Krynn), but there's no mouse support! Argh... I guess there's still the good old DOS boot disk solution for the truly hard-core ^_^

[Bowler]

Eye of the Beholder! Aaaaaaaaaaah! :)

::dies from pleasurable flashback::

[Qbix]

Actually the game is saved and can be loaded if you press the same slot (i believe)

But if you run the game in version 0.55
the right name appairs.....

Qbix

[DaveK]

Ah yes, many fond memories of Master of Magic. Or should I say mammories, since I would usually play the topless wizard so I could see her boobies.

[Shy]

OMG! Im bringing Master of Magic up again.Its 2003 and Im still trying to replay Master of Magic the original classic of 1994 by Microprose.If you want a copy of the game goto my URL and pick it up for free.Wow this game is the best game and goes to show you that all the games they ever released after it were just a bunch of pretty graphics without any depth.This game is still #1.

http://www.dragonsword.com/magic/

[Shy]

OMG! Im bringing Master of Magic up again.Its 2003 and Im still trying to replay Master of Magic the original classic of 1994 by Microprose.If you want a copy of the game goto my URL and pick it up for free.Wow this game is the best game and goes to show you that all the games they ever released after it were just a bunch of pretty graphics without any depth.This game is still #1.

http://www.dragonsword.com/magic/

[shiet]

http://www.dragonsword.com/magic/

Wow this game owns and makes even today's games seem like a no brainer made them.Nothing has the depth of that of Master of Magic.Get a copy here

http://www.dragonsword.com/magic/

It actually works. 2003 and im still replaying the 1994 classic.No shit.

[dr_colossus]

too bad! My all-time-fav DOS game Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games doesn't run on it because Protected Mode isn't supported yet! Please hurry up with it will ya! :]

[halcyon_days]

MoM is one of the best games I've ever played and is generally better than most of the crap they are pumping out these days (Enter the Matrix?)

Actually, I need some assistance/advice. I am trying (EMPHASIZE on TRYING)to re-create MoM or something similar but with updated graphics. I need a good game editor as I don't have the patience (any longer) to program games. I don't care if it costs $ or its a free project, but I do have a slight bias in favor of the open-source free project types (better quality/community).

So anyways, if any of you readers know a good game creation tool, suited for MoM (doesn't need multi-textured, super-stenciled, antiisotropoaliased superinsane crazy fuckshitdamn graphics) you know who to email.

Thnx.

[halcyon_days]

BTW Jane is hot. :)