Apparently Unsolvable
I remember playing this game as a little kid, but now I can't run it. I do hope someone here has solved this problem, or at least has some idea what to do:
Running any file in the Albion folder, either on its own or in DOSbox results in a black screen, occasionally preceded by a flash of text too brief to read, meaning, presumably, that it has automatically gone full-screen. The only way to escape this is Alt-Tab.
Running with VDMSound (tried configuring it with Roland sound blaster as well) garners the same results as above, except that rather than seeing the program name on the taskbar, it now says 'VDMS Launchpad'. I can only assume my files are corrupt, then, except that I've downloaded from several different sites, and re-unRAR'd it at least a dozen times.
Also (secondary to the above), upon attempting to run any program CD-style (from Albion\CD\ALBION), either standalone or with DOSbox, I receive the error message that DOS4GW cannot be found. Just for the hell of it, I copied it to the aforementioned folder from the main folder, only to come up against a no-CD error (which I have tried to fix using the methods in this thread, to no avail).
I have a Pentium 4 with XP Home Edition.
I would love a solution, and obviously any suggestion you can make is welcome. Please help, I loved this game!
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