The path in your config file must be "C:\SAVE" if you mount your cok directory as C:\.

dosraider, thank holy hell for you! Clueless folks like me owe your ilk to no end! ROCK!

You're welcome.
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That will be 20€, THX, I accept paypal.
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Now that I've created & saved characters, it won't let me add them. I try in order to create the party and begin the game, but when selected/clicked, nothing happens at all.

Anyone can help? DOSbox running good on this game until I go to "ADD CHARACTER TO THE PARTY" it does absolutely zilch.

Tried to do this one, but then everything I did gave me the 3hali error again. Went back and no more error, but still nothing on adding characters or loading a game.

I guess the game never saved your characters. Did you follow dosraider's advice to put the game folder into your personal folder ?
You don't have to enter the mount command manually every time you start dosbox (the path will be tool long to enter manually), dosbox has a config file where you can enter the commands which shall be executed each time you start it.

I guess not. It seemed like it did, but then again I know **** about this stuff. What would be the command text to type (or a general structure I could understand & base off of) if I were to dump it all into a personal folder? Originally I was just going off of C drive with the commands good'ol dosraider provided and when I didn't get an error message and it took me back to the main menu I figured it was fine and went ahead setting up my other characters too. I thought it did save the characters, but just wouldn't allow any sort of beginning to the game, not even by just starting with default characters. Same trouble Guest_tabukat_*, Stauf1186, goatunit , and the above quoted guest were having. But, if that were the case, I should be able to see some kind of file for each character in the save folder, right? I recall being able to do that with Dark Queen back in the day. But, having checked the Save folder for cok, there's nada. *palm/forehead* Crap.

Drag/drop your whole \oldgames\ folder and the underlaying game folders in it in
c:\users\your name\

Run dosbox and:

mount c "c:\users\your name\oldgames\"
c:
... etcetera, rest of the inputs are the same.
The " " are only needed if your user name is + 8 chars or has spaces. But they won't hurt anyway.

Good luck.

MAN!
 

No dice. Definitely in the right place, definitely typing the right path, but no matter what DOSBox tells me the directory doesn't exist.