Hello!
I am really trying to figure out how to play Castle of the Winds on my Windows 11 laptop. I don't care if it's online or on my local machine, but I can't get anything to work. I have been able to download DosBox and (separately) I've gotten GOG Galaxy to use DosBox to play Settlers II successfully (it comes with a pre-configured file). I did not grow up with Windows or Dos and played the game at a friend's home, so dos commands and dosbox are not intuitive to me, but I think I've figured out most of the details thus far.
As best I can tell, thus far:
-Emulators other than DosBox are unlikely to work on Windows 11.
-The game requires Windows 16 (I'm not familiar with this) or 3.1, and 3.1 is not available for free.
Do I have any options for playing on my local machine for free?
I'd also be happy to play online (at
https://www.classicdosgames.com/online/castl11a.html), which brought me to this thread. When the page loads, a purple circle briefly appears before it is replaced by this statement: "Exception thrown, see JavaScript console".
-I'm not sure how to open the console.
-I've seen several statements about accepting a pop-up regarding a security warning, but I've never seen this pop-up.
-I've gone into chrome's settings to add all the white list permissions I can find (including based on various internet searches) to allow permissions and popups by/at classicdosgames.com but nothing changes.
Can anyone please help me get this game running in any capacity? Thank you!
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EDIT: I just realized that the reference to the console was likely to the console on the site itself, which is only visible after checking the box to show it. Here's what my console says:
Starting ...
Using root directory: /root/base
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'mkdirSync')
The window starts loading, but then turns blank and says "Error. Click for details" in the top left corner. When I click it, a message window that says "jdos.gui.Mainapplet" appears.
Anyone know what to do?