MechWarrior 2: Resource Forum

The mw2shell.dll has to be patched to work with Windows 8/8.1 - currently the patched mw2shell.dll file only works on XP/7. Unfortunately, AFAIK, no one has done so to this date. Your best bet would be VMware/VirtualBox VM with Direct3D support that runs Windows 7.

I found out that setting the machine option to vesa_nolfb fixed all the problems that was occurring on 1024x768. Thanks for the tip! Now I can play this with the highest resolution - well, it WAS a high-resolution back nearly 20 years ago when this game came out

Well I messed around with the settings again, and apparently, the default value of the memsize (16) didn't gave me any trouble this time. Kind of confused what's going on - it might be another configuration line I might have changed in the DOSBox, or something went wrong with the Mechwarrior 2 insta...

I have it working on OS X version of DOSBox. Running OS X Mavericks (10.9) with DOSBox 0.74, but it should work on older OS X versions as long as DOSBox supports it. What worked for me without having the mission hang on me on completion/failure/self-destruct/self-eject was to edit the DOSBox configu...