Subj : Tradewars under linux
To   : ALL
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Sat Sep 23 2017 07:49 am

 Re: Tradewars under linux
 By: Dumas Walker to ALL on Sat Sep 23 2017 07:49 am

> For months now, I have been struggling with getting Tradewars working again
> under linux.  It was working but, sometime back in June, the EXTERN program
> began crashing my DOS maintenance BAT.  By "crashing," I mean it was
> closing the dosemu window entirely, without a visible error message.

> I tried running EXTERN under dosbox, as well as BIGBANG, and get the
> following error:

> File Error (1) - (filename).DAT : Invalid Function

> filename = the name of the DAT file that the programs are presumably
> attempting to access at that moment (it varies, depending on the program
> and function).

> I thought that upgrading to the latest version of debian caused this, as
> that version of dosemu did cause other issues with other programs.  I
> downgraded dosemu to the previous working version and, although all the
> other BBS issues went away, the TW issue is still happening.

> I do not remember doing anything special to the dosemu settings to get this
> running... did any of you all that have tradewars working?

> Some other things I tried... I went back to the OS/2 box I migrated the BBS
> from, and the EXTERN program runs fine there.  I copied all of those files -
> DAT, EXE, and the whole directory structure - from the OS/2 box to the
> linux box and the problem immediately returned, as in first time I ran
> EXTERN.


are you using tw2002 and trying dpmi and non dpmi versions?