I recently obtained a copy of Battlespire. (Yay! ) The game runs okay, but there are several problems.

Firstly, there is no music. There are sound effects (although they never seem to be coming from the proper direction), but there is no music at all.

Secondly, and this is more important, attempting to modify Equipment or Magic Items in the character creation screen causes a CTD.

Thirdly, I seem to be drifting to the side somewhat when I walk.

Finally, CTDs frequently occur with no immediately apparent cause.

If anyone can help me fix any of these problems, that would be much appreciated.

Are you sure that you have the CD mounted in DOSBox? This causes the majority of issues with Battlespire. Make sure that it is mounted in the same location that you installed it from (D:\ for example). After that make sure you have it patched to 1.5.

If the game can see the disc and is patched, it should fix all your problems.

I am certain I have mounted DOSBox correctly. I am, however, somewhat confused about the patch. I downloaded the patch from here http://www.uesp.net/wiki/General:Playing_DOS_Installments_under_DOSBox The instructions say to extract batpatch15.zip to the game folder, but the patch is an .exe, not a .zip file, and when I try to run it, either in Windows or DOSBox, all I get is an error message.

Make a bin/cue file image of the CD and then use the IMGMOUNT command in DOSBox to mount the cue file. That should give you the music.

You seriously need to get that patch work as the patch fixes a lot of things. It's a runnable zip file, so unzip it in the game directory. You can do that easily with 7-Zip.