Mortal Kombat 3
 

I have to original CD from way back, and just came to my mind that Abandonia could help me playing it again.

The problem is, whenever I start the game, after the intro-screen it crashes and quits with strange DOS-programwords on my screen.

I did not have this problem when I only had a 300MHz pnetium. I still use Win'98.

Any idea?

Are you playing it in DosBox or in Windows?

In windows.

Hm, maybe I just need DosBox then.

Excellent guess :OK:

Under DosBox I mounted either the harddrive-directory, or the CD-directory, but in both cases it says "no CD found".

How to solve this?

Depends on the commands you are using. Mind to post them here? :)

I just mounted the directories (mount c c:\mk3; mount d d:\), then runned the mk3.exe (after changing the directory of course, so I wasn't in drive z). CD is drive D, it is in.

(I practically have no experience with Dosbox, I downloaded it just recently from Abandonia, the 0.74 version.)

For mounting CDs or ISOs you'd need to add -t cdrom for them to be mounted as CD drive(s), like:

mount d d:\ -t cdrom

That should fix the problem with the CD not being found. It might also help to mount the drive C and then change to the game folder like this (some games are sensitive at that):

mount c c:\
c:
cd \mk3

Ok, the game is working now.

But I'll still have to change the speed. I think DosBox reduces the speed of the CPU or something, so there is a lot of lags (the game loads in very slowly, and the fight is laggy).

I'd also be pleased if there'd be a fullscreen mode for DosBox...


I better check the manual, but if you can give advices, I'd be grateful.

CTRL + F11 cycles down
CRTL + F12 Cycles Up

Alt + Enter

Edit:

CTRL-F7 - Decreases Frameskip

CTRL-F8 - Increases Frameskip

CTRL-F5 - Saves a screenshot inside a folder called 'capture' in your DOSBox folder, you can use this repeatedly to save as many images as you want.

Ctrl-F6 - Stop/starts recording sound output to a wave file on your hard drive, this means you can record a games music or sound fx. The file will be saved as type .wav in your DOSBox capture folder.

CTRL-F9 - This kills (closes) DOSBox in the event of panic/emergency.