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Game keeps crashing when fighting enemies

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Okay, so I'm playing Arena on a Macbook. I originally downloaded the game from Bethesda's site. However, the gameplay was so painfully slow that I had to download a more Mac-friendly version (that still uses DOSBox, mind you) from another site. On THAT version, the gameplay is perfectly fine except for when I'm fighting a guard or some other enemy. We exchange a few hits (if any at all), and then the whole game shuts down and DOSBox closes.
Does anyone have any idea what could be going wrong here?
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Are you using hand to hand
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AKB wrote:Are you using hand to hand
I'm using melee weapons (i.e. a sword), if that's what you're asking. Why?

EDIT: I figured out the glitch; My weapon was unequipped, yet it showed up in first-person view as if it WERE equipped. I equipped a weapon, and the game stopped crashing when I fought enemies. What a relief!
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It's weird that the game showed the weapon as though it were equipped when it wasn't. On the PC version, if you don't have a weapon equipped, you'll see your fists when you're in attack mode. I wonder if that glitch is just in the Mac version?
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SeaGtGruff wrote:It's weird that the game showed the weapon as though it were equipped when it wasn't. On the PC version, if you don't have a weapon equipped, you'll see your fists when you're in attack mode. I wonder if that glitch is just in the Mac version?
There's only version of Arena, and that's on DOS. And I think it's because I transferred the save files from the Bethesda site's download to the one I got from the other site.
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I was confused by the reference to "a more Mac-friendly version." I mean, what's that, just differences in the config settings for DOSBox, or a different build of the game itself?

Oh, heck, who am I fooling? I was just confused, period! :)
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