Csdpmi*b.zip Dosbox Download
Lorecchia Verre
In DOSBox 0.61, DPMI support was disabled (== removed entirely?), on the apparent grounds that DOSBox could do just about everything DPMI did anyway. This is slightly unfortunate for me; I have a DOS program (not a game, but related) which I want to run which, when run under DOSBox, exits immediately with "Load error: no DPMI - Get csdpmi*b.zip" (I've done that, it changed nothing). Why exactly this happens I don't know - maybe it would run perfectly fine under DOSBox without DPMI, but it doesn't know that, so because it doesn't find DPMI it refuses to start.
I did exactly what I remembered having done when trying to run these games under DOS, instead of getting DPMI services from Win9x: put the file (a ZIP file in this case) in the same directory as the executable, and run the program I wanted to use. It turns out, now that talk of "running" CWSDPMI sends me looking, that the file I had used then was an executable - named cwsdpmi.exe, which I assumed would not work since the program requested csdpmi*b.zip. Now that I actually *try* the same file (as I thought I had done before, but must not have), the program starts - and DOSBox quits right after the splash screen with "Pagefault didn't correct page", but at least it's a step farther.
When I try to run a game with DOSBox 0.72 it says: ''Load error: no DPMI - get csdpmi*b.zip.'' I have read the readme and my OS is 32-bit Vista. I have tried running it with frontends but they show the same message.
The csdpmi did what it was supposed to do, i guess, but now it says a new error message: ''Exiting due to signal SIGSEV. Page fault et eip=000316ff'' and then it shows some weird info like this:
''cs: sel=00a7 base=10000000 limit=0113ffff''
I could write the whole message, but I don't think that would help. (Or I'm just too lazy to write it all.)