| 26-10-2007 11:08 PM | |||||||
| Mr. E |
QUOTE(dosraider @ Oct 26 2007, 10:42 PM) [snapback]317392[/snapback] Quote:
Oh ok. Yeah. Better to leave well enough alone I guess (on the renaming). --Doing nothing is a lot easier too...hehe! But I will definitely floow your advice for all games in the future. Keep it simple!  I will make a note of that CD advice too. Thanx again, Aloha! 
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| 26-10-2007 09:42 PM | |||||||
| dosraider |
Hmmmm, watch out with your renaming, if you've installed them with the ~whatever your could have some that refuse to run afterwards.( Those who write a path setting in their cfg file) And then you're back on the :wallbash: LMAO here. Just remember: From now on 8 chars, and no fancy stuff. Even on a Mac. Because sooner or later you will have other games that need a correct dos path. Always mount a C: , whatever partition/folder letter you use, dosbox takes care of that. Whilst I'm on it, your CD, always mount that as D:, whatever the real drive letter is. |
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| 26-10-2007 09:23 PM | |||||||
| Mr. E |
QUOTE(dosraider @ Oct 26 2007, 02:21 PM) [snapback]317344[/snapback] Quote:
Hehe! ...I think I'll rename some of my game folders. I just liked having the entire correct name on files/folders for easy, correct identification and neatness. Thanx again. Seeya later!
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| 26-10-2007 01:21 PM | |||||||
| dosraider |
:tai: Dosbox doesn't care WHAT you mount as C aslong you have read/writing rights. Always mount a folder as C: in dosbox and THEN cd to your game folder. As for you /Games/DOS Games/ works, fine no problem. The reason I advised to mount /documents/ as C: is because at least I know you have read/writing rights there, if you have those elsewhere... no problem. "Star Trek 5 - The Final Frontier" as dos game folder? :blink: Oh my ...... *Edit, The Fifth Horseman, How dare you post whilst I'm typing ........ :angry: |
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| 26-10-2007 01:20 PM | |||||||
| The Fifth Horseman |
DOS file naming rules restrict file and directory names to 8 characters and no spaces are allowed. Hence many old games can have problems if you try to name their directories otherwise. |
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| 26-10-2007 10:54 AM | |||||||
| Mr. E |
[/quote]Hey! All right! It worked. Apparently the reason it didn't work before was that I had my /Games/DOS Games/ folder mounted as my c-drive. All my other games work fine with the Games folder. I didn't realize DOSBox prefers Documents. I don't believe they mentioned that in the manual. Anyways...it worked. Plus I learned something. I'll move all my DOS games to Documents (hopefully it will be ok to put them all in a folder within Documents...I'd rather not have all those loose files in the Documents folder seperately). BTW...I had already set DOSbox to automount my /Games/DOS Games/ folder, so to test out your instructions, I mounted my Documents folder as "D". Which obviously worked fine. I'll reset DOSBox to automount /Documents/DOS Games/ as my c-drive after this. Thanx a LOT dosraider!!! ~Aloha! [/quote] UPDATE: I just learned something else new. The problem was NOT with my Games folder. Apparently, the entire problem was caused by my renaming the Star Trek 5 folder (I changed it to the eintire "Star Trek 5 - The Final Frontier"). When I first tried your fix, I renamed it exactly as you stated, but after it worked...I changed it back to the full name again...and it did the same "insert 5.25 disk, blah, blah, blah" thing again. So...I changed the name back, tried it again, and it worked again. So then I get the idea that maybe my /Games/DOS Games/ folder IS all right after all. ...And so it is. So...it's cool. I don't need to move all my DOS games and change my DOSBox autorun instructions!  k: And now I know that if I have a similar problem in the future...I'll keep the renaming thing in mind. Thanx again man!! |
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| 26-10-2007 10:26 AM | |||||||
| Guest |
QUOTE(dosraider @ Oct 26 2007, 10:11 AM) [snapback]317332[/snapback] Quote:
Apparently the reason it didn't work before was that I had my /Games/DOS Games/ folder mounted as my c-drive. All my other games work fine with the Games folder. I didn't realize DOSBox prefers Documents. I don't believe they mentioned that in the manual. Anyways...it worked. Plus I learned something. I'll move all my DOS games to Documents (hopefully it will be ok to put them all in a folder within Documents...I'd rather not have all those loose files in the Documents folder seperately). BTW...I had already set DOSbox to automount my /Games/DOS Games/ folder, so to test out your instructions, I mounted my Documents folder as "D". Which obviously worked fine. I'll reset DOSBox to automount /Documents/DOS Games/ as my c-drive after this. Thanx a LOT dosraider!!! ~Aloha! |
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| 26-10-2007 09:11 AM | |||||||
| dosraider |
Unzip all in \trek5\ Don't mount \trek5\ as c: but 'cd' to it.. Works fine. *Edit Just remembered you're on a Mac .......  Extract the files in the archive to /Users/your-user-name/Documents/trek5/ Subfolders too !!!!!! Run dosbox, yes, really. inputs: Z:\>mount C "/Users/your-user-name/Documents/" Z:\>C: C:\>cd trek5 C:\TREK5>st5 |
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| 26-10-2007 07:14 AM | |||||||
| Mr. E |
Hmmm...no luck. There is the same exact no. of files in the new download as in the first, and there was no problem with unzipping. I guess there something missing from the game here. It's strange though...other people posted about the game and that makes me think that it works for them.  BTW...I tried running the Install file...it crashes DOSBox. Oh well. |
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| 26-10-2007 06:48 AM | |||||||
| Guest |
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[/b][/quote] I downloaded it from right here. I'll try DLing it again and use a different program to unzip it. Maybe there was an error in unpacking the .zip? Thanx a lot for the reply! --I'll let you know how it goes.
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