A little while ago, I downloaded the tes dosbox helper because I couldn't get Daggerfall to work. With the tes dosbox helper I've been successfully running it without problems. Today, I decided to try out Arena. I got to the shift gate at the end of the dungeon and some text came up telling me to look in my spellbook or something. And then the game suddenly exited to the tes dosbox helper menu. Every time I try to use the shift gate, the same thing happens.

I could just run Arena on DosBox normally, but the tes dosbox helper makes the game fullscreen and automatically sets the frame rate, so I'd rather not run it normally.

Please respond if you're able to help.

Check in the "Docs" folder that comes with Arena, it should have all the information you need to get by the spellbook check.

i think you missed the question here.

The game is crashing for the OP when that menu comes up (i presume before they can type anything in)....

? don't think I missed anything or that it crashes. It exits when one write the wrong stuff.

Yeah, I looked in the DOCS folder, and it told me the costs of all the spells. So I should be able to get past that part now.
Thanks for your help.

it does? from my memory i thought just kept asking you different ones....

heh...sorry