DOS Games Discussion

I've had a look at the FAQ and stickies, and tried a few reinstalls of DOSbox and given it a new "C drive", but when I run Doom, I get as far as working out my settings, then hitting Save settings and run Doom.

After that, DOSbox goes back to just a C:\ prompt. I've tried running the executable Doom, but when I do this, it just gives me the release date of Doom and nothing else happens. I'm quite sure it's the right files, any help is much appreciated.

Not enough info.
What Doom? shareware? full? from here?
OS?
ALL, and I mean ALL your mount lines.
Soundsetup? How? What choices?
details details details ..............

Why not to use Doom ports?

http://legacy.newdoom.com/ Doom Legacy port
http://www.zdoom.org/about.html ZDoom port
http://zdoomgl.mancubus.net/ ZdoomGL port
http://grafzahl.drdteam.org/index.php?page=topic&id=230 GZdoom port
http://www.zdaemon.org/ Zdaemon Doom connector
http://www.skulltag.com/ SkullTag mod of zDoom port
http://risen3d.newdoom.com/ Risen 3D port
http://www.doomsdayhq.com/ Doomsday Doom port
http://forums.jfiles.org/dload.php Doomsday additional packs
http://www.teamtnt.com/boompubl/boom2.htm Boom
http://www.vavoom-engine.com/ Vavoom port
http://edge.sourceforge.net/ Edge port
http://www.chocolate-doom.org/wiki/inde ... olate_Doom Chocolate Doom port
http://oblige.sourceforge.net/ Oblige Doom level generator

Because that would obviously be too easy for good ole' dosraider!

Maybe he wants to try the original game?
Fact is Doom and DoomII run fine in dosbox 0.72.

BTW, doomsday is one of my favorite doom ports.

dosraider wrote:Maybe he wants to try the original game?

There are many Doom ports that run Doom on Windows without any modification, like Chocolate Doom...almost all others can be configured to run Doom in a very loyal way. VERY loyal. Including pixalization, resolution.....

Yes, but some wants the full 'original'experience.
With no extra added cfg files.
Dosbox gives that experience.

BTW, Doomjedi, guests can't see your sig, maybe add that one too.

Yes, but full original experience costs some framerate issues. + you can't have full original experence unless you have a time machine. Game like Doom (and other DOS games) can't be taken out of the mood and the context of his era. It's like trying to loyally recreate ABBA show

...for those who can't see my sig:

my Wolf3D modding page:
http://doomjedi.page.tl/

That's now exactly why I still have my P1/200/32Mb with a S3 virge+SB ISA in good shape and a 15"CRT hooked up on it.

Reminds me, one of those days I gonna repair that 486...
One of those days => probably never, lazy me.
And reassemble that 286 ..... hmmmmmm.... time time time.

Wow....impressive.

please help i couldn't figure out the dosbox tutorial i made a shortcut but it says "dosbox installer" what did i do wrong reply like you are talking to a 4th grader! I can't understand any of this, please use idiot terms.

Once again, read and apply this:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10437

What I can't do, is learning you to work with a PC.
So this is the best you can get.
Follow it from the first to the last letter, and it will work.
If it doesn't work you screwed up somewhere, best thing is to start allover from scratch.
Delete all you've done t'll now.

ok, DOSbox works now, but how do i run doom in it?

Depends .....
Full game?
Floppies?
CD?
Demo downloaded here ?

Depends ......

it seems pretty full; it's got like 60 some files just called by numers, bunch o wads and apps, diff. types of files, windows batch files, couple o setups, even an HTML but i think it's more of an add fromthe site i got it from.

What kind of files ?
Are there some EXE files? That could help find out what version you have.

Also:
->Did you get that far that dosbox starts up with C: prompt?
->What's your C mount line?
Can be helpfull to answer your questions.

The exact list: Files 1-61, DEFAULT.CFG,DMAUD,DOOM, DOOM1.WAD, DOOMEXT, FILE_ID.RUA, IPXSETUP, LICSENCE.DOC, MODEM.CFG, ORDER.FRM, README, SERSETUP, SETUP, VENDOR.DOC

Bloodwrath wrote:DOSbox is working fully, i did all the intros and though too dumb to absorb any info, it works and is currently displaying the "Keymap" or something like that

Bloodwrath wrote:also how do i mount it or whatever i need to mount?

Merged your 3 posts, you have an edit button, use it please. ~dosraider

It ain't keymap you need, but whatever.

About Doom:
You must have a subfolder DOOM with all those files in it, it must be a subfolder of your mounted C, as you were too lazy to state what your mounted C is, I won't guess after it.

Run dosbox,
input:

cd doom
setup

You should get soundsetup
choose:

SB or SB pro
A 220
IRQ 7
DMA 1
HDMA 5 (? If needed)

Run the game with doom

If YOU want more precise info, you will have to learn to state precise info friend.
There are several versions-(rips-demo-shareware-whatever)- versions of doom.
You hardly can expect us to look in our crystal globe to find out what you talking about.

Bloodwrath wrote:also how do i mount it or whatever i need to mount?

Once again the same:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10437

i put in cd doom then it said "You are still on drive z; change to a mounted drive with C:". i guess my "mounted C" should be c:\dosprog\ as it says in the mount intro that that will create a C drive with \dosprog as it's contents. it says replace dosprog with my current games directory. How do i find out what my games directory is?

And once again,
READ AND APPLY THIS:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10437

Wait, I gonna repeat it :
READ AND APPLY THIS:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10437