DOS Games Discussion

Help me it doesnt even run with Dosbox

Warcraft 2 is listed as supported (means OK to run in dosbox)@ Vogons.
Warcraft 2: Beyond the Dark Portal (1996) 100% (supported)
Warcraft 2: Tide of Darkness (1995) 100% (supported)

Do you have the Dos versions? Thought there also was a Windows version, dosbox won't help you then....

Did you take a look @ the stickies here?

How you mount the game in dosbox?

More details please.
PLENTY more details.

OS? PC? CPU? Monitor? Ram? ....

Its a DOS version.In the folder which i installed the game,i click the file called war2.a black screen comes,and then it comes back to the folder where i was

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dosraider wrote:Warcraft 2 is listed as supported (means OK to run in dosbox)@ Vogons.
Warcraft 2: Beyond the Dark Portal (1996) 100% (supported)
Warcraft 2: Tide of Darkness (1995) 100% (supported)

Did you take a look @ the stickies here?

How you mount the game in dosbox?

More details please.
PLENTY more details.

OS? PC? CPU? Monitor? Ram? ....

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You didn't answer my questions, how do you want me to give an answer?
Do you think I can guess on what system you are?

WarCraft2 (dosversion) works flawless in dosbox.
Oh looky I found an ol'save game:

Deleted the useless quoting of previous post ~dosraider

OK OK
I have Windows XP
i mounted:mount c c:\war2 (the folder)
so bad its a demo

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5443
Your mount is wrong.
You need a c:\games
Your inputs:

mount c c:\games
c:
cd WCR2
war

Means you must install Warcraft through dosbox in c:\wcr2
(Windows path is c:\games\wcr2)
Run setup FIRSTin dosbox.
Setup:
Digital SBPro -> auto set -> test -> ok
Music SB PRO2 -> auto set -> test -> ok
Save and exit.

If the game lags in dosbox, rerun setup and disable music card.

How to run setup through dosbox?

BTW: check in windows if your folder WCR2 isn't write protected, seems that this sometimes happens.
Oh heck, rightclick on your folder( whilst in windows) -> properties -> look if the readonly box is unchecked.

*Edit:
Check above this page your PMs, You have one.

Thanks i have the demo running DOSBOX RULES

i have tried everything here and i still cant get warcraft 2 BNE to work in dos box.

i have mounted the cd drive, and then when i go to the .exe file, it says "this file cannot be run in DOS mode" ??huh??

then i tried just doing it mounting the c:\games to L drive thingy, and it still wont run.

IM COMPLETELY LOST HERE

Anonymous wrote:"this file cannot be run in DOS mode" ??

Means is a windows executable, can not run in dos.
So you must have the windows version.
I don't have that one, so I can't say for sure, but try directly in windows.

Anonymous wrote:<snip> when i go to the .exe file, it says "this file cannot be run in DOS mode" ??huh??

then i tried just doing it mounting the c:\games to L drive thingy, and it still wont run.

The leaps in some humans logic continues to amaze me

MiniMax wrote:

Anonymous wrote:<snip> when i go to the .exe file, it says "this file cannot be run in DOS mode" ??huh??

then i tried just doing it mounting the c:\games to L drive thingy, and it still wont run.

The leaps in some humans logic continues to amaze me

I've followed the instructions here, and the demo works, but when I click on "single player game", it says I need to insert my cd. My cd is already in the drive, and I know the computer is acknowledging it in windows xp, but it won't run the game in xp (hence DOSBox). But in DOSBox, it won't let me play b/c it won't acknowledge the cd.

Thoughts? Thanks in advance.

Mount the CD correctly ? (As D)
And install the game from D to C (dosbox) ?

Just some general advise, as I have the no-CD WCII game

dosraider wrote:Mount the CD correctly ? (As D)
And install the game from D to C (dosbox) ?

Just some general advise, as I have the no-CD WCII game

How did you get hold of that?? :-)

I tried what you said, and it didn't seem to help. Not sure what's wrong. Thanks, though!

Now you could start by reading the stickies in 'get games to work', especially the post about mounting isos and CDs in Xp-Dosbox.

If you want more help post detailled info.
How you mount your CD in dosbox?
How you mont your virtual C in dosbox?
How you install the game in dosbox?
If you get an error message, post it, word by word.

The more details the easier it will be to get were you went wrong.

Dont know how to install with dosbox

If i do:

mount c e:\

then try to install it says on the install that i cant install though that path. i missing something here, im not used to dos and i dont know english 100%

Could somebody help here?

if you're trying to mount the "e:" drive on your computer, try:

mount x e:\


Use a virtual drive letter that doesn't already exist in your chain of physical drives.

Doesn't it also need -t cdrom too wardrich

If his real CDDrive is E:
mount d e:\ -t cdrom
Also mount a virtual C, create first a folder on your C (or D) partition named games and mount it as virtual C:
mount c c:\games
or
mount c d:\games

Install the game from D: on C: in dosbox.

The assigned drive letters in dosbox have nothing related with the real ones.
Always mount a virtual C:
Always use D: for virtual CDDrive, whatever real letters they have in Windows.