OK I'd suggest finding one that fits on a floppy (eg, Monty Python) and booting without ANY hard drive attached at all....

If, at this point, it still crashes then I'd have to go with "hardware issues" as these patches DEFINATLY run on a 100% clean boot floppy system.

Actually, I just thought - there is another possibility:

When you unpack them, do you unpack them keeping the original folder structure, or do you have all the files in the same folder.

It should look like this:

GAMENAME (folder)
  contains:
    DATA (folder)
    loader.tos

DATA (folder)
  contains all the files.


If you have done a "flat" unpack then yes, they all will crash. Good luck!