What is DOS Box and how do I access it?

Well, just read our excellent tutorial on DosBox! It should explain most things!

You can download it here.

If you have any problems with it, try having a look at the official FAQ on the DosBox site.
Basic Setup and Installation
Command Line
Z instead of C at the command prompt
Internal Programs (important, especially MOUNT)
Most of the stuff in there is not really needed, but you would do best to familiarize yourself with the specific topics I linked to.
The mounting of your DosBox games directory, switching the promt to the emulated C: drive and clearing the screen from previous commands can all be executed from the [autoexec] section of dosbox.conf, so you won't have to re-type them every time round.
Frontend programs can help running DosBox with varying configurations for different games.
For both a more accessible user interface and oldschool feel, you can use Norton Commander (get it from our programs and utilities page - scroll down to the bottom to find it). NC might seem awkward at first, but in fact it is a very functional genuine DOS era file manager frontend. It has a plethora of functions that will help you in navigating around the directories, while still retaining the command prompt.

Though all of this might seem complicated, it's very easy once you get used to it. So remember:

DON'T PANIC!!! ^_^

:sos: :sos: :sos: Help! how are you geting it to run ?

When I try to run the game under DOSBox it asks me to configure its sound, but even if I configure again (I already did it before I ran the game), it won't run. Why is this happening? How can I fix this problem? Thanks!

Read the post above yours for that info.

What values did you enter in the sound configuration?

Hello, ... where i can find the passwords for the second password check?

First check e.g. Page 11 Line 5 Position 5 is okey, .. i can find .. but
Second check PAGE II LINE II Position 3 ..... i cant find!

Please help me!
thx

I still have the original floppys and manual for this game from 1995. The original was a board game produced in the UK , almost handcrafted. called 1829. This is a faithful software version, except for the shift to the USA. Avalon Hill bought the board game rights and produced their own version, then a PC version. This was extremely difficult to run on the PCs around in 1995 - it needed a state of the art machine and it used all of it - you had to boot with a special 1830 boot disk. Still a great game!

UK stave

Minor issue: on the higher difficulty levels, the AI players will act in a concerted effort against you. They don't care who of them will win, their sole concern is to stop you, the player. On the one hand, this is a little silly; on the other, it becomes necessary once you've learned the ins & outs of the game.

As to the Diesel Trains changing ownership and never moving (mentioned further up): that's a valid technique. Except under very certain circumstances, no company may ever be without a train. If the companies' funds won't suffice, the main shareholder has to put in some money out of his own pocket (selling stock for cash if necessary). If that still won't suffice, that character goes bankrupt and the game is over.
By constantly selling the same train from one of his companies to the other, the train will never move (and hence never generate revenue). However, in the meantime that character's other stock may rise in value and/or pay out some dividends, so that after some turns of idling he may finally purchase that second train. Maybe. Maybe not. At least he remains in the game, and where's live there's hope.

Finally....
The crack as offered on HOTU unpacks fine on Win98 systems, XP boxes will refuse to open it. Maybe if you get your hands on the old command-line pkunzip and try it in a DOS window (or under DosBox)... I didn't try this though.

Wether or not this game will run seems to be a matter of luck. I've had varying results on different OS'es and emulators and even on different machines running the same OS and emulator. It can be anything from a total no-go to flawless operation, perhaps the most annoying case was when the game ceaselessly kept prompting me for a password, and another, and another.

Either way, in my personal opinion, getting this game to work is worth any amount of hassle.

regards,
Schnobs

If you really really want, you can get a small patch for this game on dlh.net:
http://dlh.net/cgi-bin/patdl.cgi?lang=eng&...ile=1830jul.zip

It only fixes a few bugs, but why not have the latest version anyway? :D

PS: What got fixed:
Just extract the files from the zip into your 1830 directory and overwrite the files.