MS-DOS Help. Sorta. Please

[Morgeruat]

http://www.flashback-aw.net/links.php
http://www.bhlegend.com/php/show.php3

Disclaimer: AFAIK this is strictly for old games that won't run on modern machines, or abandonware (and thus within the realm of the ToS, I neither condone nor desire to aid in piracy of any sort)

[ 06-17-2005, 09:13 AM: Message edited by: Morgeruat ]

[Beaumanoir]

It says, when i try to run it, that C:\windows\system32\autoexec.nt. is not suitable for running ms-dos programs.

That shed any light?

[Lucern]

I second Iron Greasel's DOSBox suggestion with D-Fend. I've run everything from my old gold-box collection to XCOM 2 and Master of Magic with it, fully functional.

There's a very useful function that lets you set the 'cycles' (speed) ranging from the ridiculously slow to the suitably fast. A few mid-late 90's games have less and less success, but of course that's after the time of Dos, so there's only so much a dos emulator can achieve there.

When a game doesn't seem to work in DOSBox, the DFend program lets you change and save settings until it works. It's good to see alternatives though, since I didn't know there were any. I did run accross a few lines of text in a search that indicated that someone had success with that very game in DOSBox, btw.

[Beaumanoir]

I downloaded D-fend, opened it on the floor, and then collapsed in a heap because it confused me.

[Beaumanoir]

Okay i got D-Fend working. PROBLEEEEEM strikes, same problem which i used to get when i tried loading it:

"Error = CD Must be in the drive"

It is!

Grrr...

So i tried runnin it straight from the CD using D-Fend - Same problem!

How can it tell me that the CD isnt in, when i'm running it from the CD?

Bastards.

[Jorath Calar]

Damn that D-fend is a storke of genius... dosbox acctually becomes useable... [img]smile.gif[/img]

Sorry about the cd trouble...

[andrewas]

The CD is in the drive, but is that drive attached to DosBox? From the readme:

2. To mount system cdrom drive E as cdrom drive D in DOSBox: mount d e:\ -t cdrom

If you've gotten that far, it might be some form of copy protection that DosBox cant emulate well enough. In that case, a no-CD crack would be the easiest fix, but it may be hard to track one down for a game this old. UnderDogs have a cracked version up for download.

[Beaumanoir]

Originally posted by andrewas: The CD is in the drive, but is that drive attached to DosBox? From the readme: quote: 2. To mount system cdrom drive E as cdrom drive D in DOSBox: mount d e:\ -t cdrom

If you've gotten that far, it might be some form of copy protection that DosBox cant emulate well enough. In that case, a no-CD crack would be the easiest fix, but it may be hard to track one down for a game this old. UnderDogs have a cracked version up for download. [/QUOTE]I can never download anything from theunderdogs.org. Always says that there's 'no referrer set' as if i've come from another website, even though i havent. Grrr.

Firewall?

[andrewas]

Sigh. You know, if I could find those sodding leaches, blood would be spilt and Underdogs could relax those restrictions.

Anyway, the common cause of this is a download manager or accelerator, any program that hijacks the download from your browser will have problems on underdogs unless you configure it to provide the correct referrer information. Ive never managed to get Getright to work on underdogs though, so I just download directly through my browser, or get the torrent version.

Or it could be your firewall, some of them might block referrer information. If so, there should be a way to turn that off. Look under the privacy tab and in suchlike places.

[Lavindathar]

On the same topic, is it possible to patch a game running thorugh Dfend?

Cos, I want to patch Constructor, to get rid of the annoying bugs in it.

Is this possible?