#jsmess 2018-10-16,Tue

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02:23 🔗 Sgeo__ SketchCow, do people consider VICE to be smoother than DOSBox? Or are they about the same?
04:10 🔗 Sgeo__ Reason I may seem obsessed is just my code currently has a timing rework in it and I want to figure out if I should just move ahead with it, before I start more builds
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08:04 🔗 SketchCow Sgeo__: I added the -chdir
08:04 🔗 SketchCow So that works
08:04 🔗 SketchCow I consider that issue closed and it's on me to combine the relevant images
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17:14 🔗 Kirkman Hi guys. I have a DOS question, not really jsmess. But I figured there might be someone here who could help. If not, no worries. I'm trying to run an old DOS program.. It's a "chain" for WWIV BBSes, called TradeWars 2001 (not the later TradeWars 2002). Whenever I try to execute a program which requires a parameter, I get "I/O Errors" and I can't figure out what they mean.
17:14 🔗 Kirkman For example, if I put "EXTERN CHAIN.TXT" to call the extern.com program, the program aborts with "I/O Error 01, PC=835E"
17:15 🔗 Kirkman Or similarly if I try "TW2001 CHAIN.TXT" to call the main TW2001 program, it aborts with "I/O Error 01, PC=A128".
17:16 🔗 Kirkman This is happening inside DOSBOX. I've tried it many times off and on in both 0.74 and the latest 0.74-2.
17:16 🔗 Kirkman Anyway, does anyone know DOS well enough to suggest what I'm doing wrong (or need to change)?
18:15 🔗 shattered perhaps it doesn't like dosbox disk simulation
18:15 🔗 shattered not sure if it presents the disks as local or networked
18:15 🔗 shattered what if you put the file on a simulated floppy?
18:43 🔗 Kirkman Now that I'm looking at this more, I think these might be Turbo Pascal errors rather than DOS errors
18:45 🔗 Kirkman Maybe "01 File does not exist" http://computer-programming-forum.com/29-pascal/cb72317ba1fa691d.htm
18:46 🔗 DFJustin I know dosbox's dos simulation is not complete, particularly in areas that are used by non-game software
18:46 🔗 Kirkman I did have an "F1" error earlier when the CHAIN.TXT file I was using referenced nonexistent drives (G: and E:, which I changed to C: and C:)
18:47 🔗 DFJustin so you may need to use a DOS boot disk in dosbox or a full emulator like MAME
18:48 🔗 Kirkman I hadn't thought about MAME. I'll give that a try.

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