Guitar Woman
Apr 2nd, 2008, 10:05 PM
so I'm trying to emulate an old computer game, right.
I know that DOSbox is capable of not being a huge piece of shit and actually working, as I can play Tomb Raider and Arena no problem, but when I try to do something off an ISO it never ever ever ever ever works, ever. I also know that other people are able to succeed where I am failing, but they refuse to reveal their secrets leaving me with big old DOS blue balls.
I'm using Daemon tools to try and trick the program into thinking I've got the CD in, etc. etc., right. So anyway, I mount both the virtual CD drive and the folder the game files are going to go in, and then I install it. It refuses to do a full install and insists that a 500 MB game won't fit on a hard drive with upwards of 40 gigabytes of storage space. Smaller install sizes work fine, but now problems arise in the fact that I have to have the CD drive and the folder for the game files mounted at the same time. I'd be ok with that if it worked like it should, but when I select one drive to work with it can't detect the other for whatever reason.
Like, say, I have to go to C:\Daggerfall\DAGGER\DAGGER.EXE to start playing the game. I do that, and even though I've got my F:\ drive with the ISO in it mounted, it can't find it and refuses to let me play. If I just try to play it off the CD, that won't work either, as it doesn't know that I have the game already installed.
This happened with System Shock, too, and after beating the program in the face with various different tricks to get it to regester both drives at the same time, it still wouldn't let me in.
The thing I'm worried about here is that a game I do have a CD for, Tomb Raider, is able to run just fine, although that might not require a CD at all, and you're also able to just play the game directly off the disc. But if I actually do need an actual factual real CD in an actual factual real CD drive I'm basically fucked, since Daggerfall goes for ridiculous amounts of cash and I am not a big boy with a big boy job who can afford those kinds of things.
I guess Arena works because it installs itself automatically when you download it off Bethesda's website. It might just be that it's the floppy disc version, although I fail to see how that'd make anything different. I've got a copy of Alone in the Dark 2 around here somewhere, and that installs off a bunch of floppies so I guess I could see if that works, but again it might just be that DOSbox doesn't like it when you steal games so the result of testing that out could mean nothing :<
So yeah help prz :<
FOR THE THICK IT IS DOING THIS
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/4453/dosboxst0.jpg
I know that DOSbox is capable of not being a huge piece of shit and actually working, as I can play Tomb Raider and Arena no problem, but when I try to do something off an ISO it never ever ever ever ever works, ever. I also know that other people are able to succeed where I am failing, but they refuse to reveal their secrets leaving me with big old DOS blue balls.
I'm using Daemon tools to try and trick the program into thinking I've got the CD in, etc. etc., right. So anyway, I mount both the virtual CD drive and the folder the game files are going to go in, and then I install it. It refuses to do a full install and insists that a 500 MB game won't fit on a hard drive with upwards of 40 gigabytes of storage space. Smaller install sizes work fine, but now problems arise in the fact that I have to have the CD drive and the folder for the game files mounted at the same time. I'd be ok with that if it worked like it should, but when I select one drive to work with it can't detect the other for whatever reason.
Like, say, I have to go to C:\Daggerfall\DAGGER\DAGGER.EXE to start playing the game. I do that, and even though I've got my F:\ drive with the ISO in it mounted, it can't find it and refuses to let me play. If I just try to play it off the CD, that won't work either, as it doesn't know that I have the game already installed.
This happened with System Shock, too, and after beating the program in the face with various different tricks to get it to regester both drives at the same time, it still wouldn't let me in.
The thing I'm worried about here is that a game I do have a CD for, Tomb Raider, is able to run just fine, although that might not require a CD at all, and you're also able to just play the game directly off the disc. But if I actually do need an actual factual real CD in an actual factual real CD drive I'm basically fucked, since Daggerfall goes for ridiculous amounts of cash and I am not a big boy with a big boy job who can afford those kinds of things.
I guess Arena works because it installs itself automatically when you download it off Bethesda's website. It might just be that it's the floppy disc version, although I fail to see how that'd make anything different. I've got a copy of Alone in the Dark 2 around here somewhere, and that installs off a bunch of floppies so I guess I could see if that works, but again it might just be that DOSbox doesn't like it when you steal games so the result of testing that out could mean nothing :<
So yeah help prz :<
FOR THE THICK IT IS DOING THIS
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/4453/dosboxst0.jpg