Alley Cat breaks under dbox, runs under DosBox standalone

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Download Alley Cat (say, at http://www.80sdos.com/alleycat.php)
2. Install it into folder c:\games\ac (no blanks in the path allowed!)
3. Add program folder to the dbox as usual
4. Observe it fail on start

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Program should start. Currently, DosBox windows starts, shows normal messages 
in the console, and then silently fails, dumping stdout and sterr file on the 
desktop (it does the latter always, by the way: why?)

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Windows Vista Business SP2, dbox 2.3, DosBox 0.74.

Please provide any additional information below.

Proposed resolution: Use 8.3 letter DOS name of the executable by default in 
dbox when registering the application.

Currently the program is called Alley Cat.exe . If you use ALLEYC~1.EXE as 
DosBox does, it works out of the box under dbox. This change can be done in the 
Edit entry of the dbox, and this solves this problem. Alternatively, one can 
rename the executable.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by alexande...@gmail.com on 20 Feb 2014 at 11:02

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PS. Same picture under Linux: if the file is called with a blank inside, 
program will not start. Seems to be a program specific issue. Again, renaming 
the file helps.

Original comment by alexande...@gmail.com on 21 Feb 2014 at 5:21

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PPS. Same on Mac. Same resolution: rename the file.

Original comment by alexande...@gmail.com on 21 Feb 2014 at 6:39