And thank you for posting about computer lab and hacking. I love reading about those times, it was harder to obtain games, so they were more precious. People had lot of interesting situations :)

I downloaded Pool of Radiance and unzipped the file to get the poolrad folder. I'm running MS-DOS from Windows 98. I saved the folder to the C:Drive and tried to start the game by typing pool.bat from MS-DOS but can't get it to work.

Here's what I typed in DOS:

C:\WINDOWS>cd \poolrad
C:\poolrad>pool.bat

And this is what displays next ...

File creation error
Please insert overlay disk.

That's as far as I get. Can anyone help?

Having issues with the download. I've got it downloaded, but can't load the game. Is there something I'm missing? Keep saying I can't format for fullscreen or something like that.

Yes, DOSBox.

help
 

i am running windows 8 and am not very computer literate.
ive downloadedc pool but obviously it wont run directly . what do i need to do now.

Check the post right before yours.
You'll have to use DOSBox. Check tutorial how to use DOSbox to run the game.

thanks
 

done thank you
but when i quit game i cant find the saves on reloading

How do you download the game? I found the links to download the journal, code wheel, etc, but can't find the link for the actual game

We had to remove it because it's on sale on gog.com

How to download?
 

Hi, I'm having a difficult time finding the link to download the game. Thanks