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I spoke too soon.   The DOS version works now, but I have new kind of problem with my game. I posted it in the "AGS 2.56d Final is released!" thread.

IT WORKED!! Thanks a million.

Thanks, I'll try that.

Not I'm not using a different version. I simply choose the "Produce DOS EXE" in the "Game" menu. Maybe there's something missing from v2.55 and DOS executables are impossible to work?

I copied the 'OW' folder to the root directory and loaded it from there. Tried to run the .exe, same message.  :'( So all you do is choose the "Produce DOS exe" option and the game runs fine? I appreciate the help anyway.

The original name was "Other Worlds". I renamed the game folder to "OW", so the new executable is OW.exe. The only thing that changed is that dossetup.exe now asks for the mysterious DAT file as well instead of giving me an error message. Do YOU have that dat file in your game?

Thank you but I wish it was that easy. I did try to run the executable instead but got the same message. The weirdest thing is that when I try to run dossetup.bat I get a "Bad command or file name"! I have a dual boot (98/XP) so I'm trying all of the above on Win98 and pure DOS, same result.
An old version of AGS I had (2.21) used to create two files, ac2game.dat and ac2game.dta. Version 2.55 only creates the latter, which doesn't seem to matter to the windows version but the engine still asks for ac2game.dat when running the DOS executable. It looks like a bug to me.

Everything has worked well with the game I'm creating so far. I was always making Windows executables. However, tonight I tried creating a DOS executable for a friend who has an old PC with Windows 3.1. It saves the game ok but when I select 'Test', I get the message:

"Error ST02: could not load game file 'AC2GAME.DAT'".

Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I'm using v2.55, May 2003 (Build 2.55.359).

Thanks guys.

Is there an official "This game was created with Adventure Game Studio" screen which we can use in the beginning of our games? And if not, wouldn't it be nice if someone made one?