Yes, I did install the patches and tried the command line switches. No luck! Oddly enough Setup will run in DOSBox but not Ripper.

The switches should do the following: /V force 480 line mode, /V1 disable support for VESA 2.0, /V2 disable use of protected mode bank switching code, /V3 disable both.
Keep in mind that uniVBE does not support the GeForce 7600GS. Also that both Ripper and Setup will run directly from WinXP with the 7600GS. VESA support is detected.

VDMSound is still at the url (Sourceforge) I posted. It may not be very active however.

Inland AZ, GreyFuss and I are both successfully running Ripper in DOSBox right now with the instructions that you included in your note. I noticed those on the DOSBox forum a while back and decided to try them out; it works like a charm!

Yes that is correct!

GreyFuss is happily playing Ripper once again thanks to Marian for simple, Game Specific instructions. And I didn't have to get into the Vesa driver issue at all.

I have no idea as to how you come up with the commands but thanks to Marian and all of the encouragement from those following this thread, I now know a 100% more than I knew before attempting these 2 games and I didn't have to go through the head banging of reading and trying to understand the written word. Baby steps to learning DosBox.