jeditoby: Not that I don't appreciate the reset button, but just as I've mined my fill and I'm ready to go explore the galaxy, Dosbox crashes and (regardless of a saved game) I have to start all over.

Thank goodness SF2 doesn't suffer from this problem, but I'm trying to play the series through.

Foucter: This is a bug that still exists from the second edition of the game. I call it the "Miner's Bug". There was a coding change between the first and second editions of the game; even a "code wheel" color change, 1st ed. where black and 2nd ed. where purple. In the first edition, you could mine planets like "Heaven" and make lots of money fast! Apparently they thought that was a "bad" thing, and changed the code.

Think of it as a "limit buffer". It seems, you get a finite number of "scanning new terrain.." before it finally locks up, and therefore crashes the game. I remember calling EA to report this bug, but they didn't believe that there was a problem. I guess no one else was an extensive miner like me.

If you're careful to not over mine... you can avoid this bug, but it does exist. I did some serious testing on it back 20 years ago. Of course, there was no internet back then, so there was no one to tell... until now. 8)

HunterZ: Is this the "Not enough storage for function" error?

Does the pre-EGA version of SF1 not suffer from this bug? Are there any other advantages/disadvantages to the pre-EGA version?

I've been playing the EGA version (which I own the original floppies for, but it's bitwise identical to the GOG version) in CGA composite mode instead of EGA due to the better animations and almost-as-good color+graphics quality, and I have been running into the "not enough storage" issue constantly (which is odd, as I don't remember encountering it back in the day). If the pre-EGA version doesn't suffer that issue and has no other disadvantages, then I'd be better off playing it.

antherem: I'm convinced "not enough storage for function" is a DOSBox problem, because I never ran into it back in the day playing the EGA version.

radiogxray: I believe I'm encountering a variation of this.

I had to start over after the "Not enough storage for function" error made the game unplayable.

I avoided lifeforms altogether and even the useless artifacts.

I'm ONLY carrying artifacts that enhance my power. Currently I'm carrying the Rod Device, Shimmering Ball, Tesseract, Dodecahedron and Red Cylinder.

I picked up my first Black Egg, and now, at every planet I land on, the game freezes at "activating terrain vehicle".

I reverted to a saved game and jettisoned a couple of the other artifacts that were not essential, but same freeze.

I reverted to a saved game and sold the Black Egg at Starport, figuring I'll buy it back later. But, it's still freezing at "activating terrain vehicle". Sigh.

I'm going to revert to a save before I acquired the Black Egg (and several other artifacts, unfortunately) and see if I can play through, avoiding getting a Black Egg until I need it.

I think it is a bit more unstable in this DOSBox version.

Milestugo: I agree with everyone saying that they never hit a error or freeze when playing the game in its original format.
One way to clear up the "not enough room in storage" message is , for me, to launch off the planet, maneuver out of orbit then return to the planet. Try to go back to your last landing location and you might be able to find the same material you might have left behind. This seems to unlock the error so you can pick up items again. It will hit again however.
My error seemed to start after I found something called the "red herring" from a ruin. I had never heard of this item in the original game and it was worth a ridiculous amount, something like 32,000 mu (was more than this but you get the idea.
From trying to pick that up, I got the error. and since then I keep getting the message every so often. I do uninstall and reinstall the gog version and I now get the message from time to time. but I still believe the Red Herring had something to do with it. I forgot the planet that I was on but it was out of the home system and in a local system. (Yellow star)

Hope we can find some help for this fix.

Anthony