Problem with Battle Isle 2220
 

I installed and then tried to run in DOSBOX, and this is what i got

http://img97.imageshack.us/i/76025586.jpg/

Would love some help, I'm new to this...

Apparently what you have is not a DOS executable...

I downloaded from here

http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=25443

and installed. When I try to open it(without DOSBOX) this is what I see

http://img707.imageshack.us/i/72370609.jpg/

What can I do?

Try running it in Windows 95 compatibility mode. If that doesn't help, run this in DOSBox and the game through it: http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/sho...48&postcount=2

First method didnt work... In the second one when i try to run windows.bat i get this message:

http://img9.imageshack.us/i/77149270.jpg/

:o
Man o man o manometer!!!!
You're in windows dos command prompt there! That's not a dosbox window !!!!!!
You didn't put those ol'W3 files in there, I may hope!!!!
Can't you read?
If you really put those ol'W3 files in your sysfiles, I have no idea how you ever gonna clean that mess up. :mhh:

Someone didn't read the instructions, I see. You were supposed to run windows.bat inside DOSBox. That isn't stated directly, but should have been clear seeing as the whole thing is supposed to be ran in DOSBox.
If you did what that screenshot looks like to me and unpacked this stuff to the root of your system drive, you've just borked your system up big time.

Guess I didn't understand to run it in dosbox, but I dont see any damage that was done...
anyways, i think i did it right now, but this is what i get when i try to open the game in the windows file. any ideas?

http://img713.imageshack.us/i/28820798.jpg/

To be really frank with you, dumping screenshots of your trouble doesn't give me more insight on what is happening...

Thought about goggling that famous error #21?

You have filled your windows sysfiles with a lot of completely obsolete DLL's, EXEs,COMs and INIs, and a whole lot more of that stuff ...... not one of those ol'sysfiles are compliant to a modern OS, ah well .... back to that game.

Also no idea what 'err 21' means.
But you shouldn't try to run games from a partition root in that ol'windows.
Try this:
create a folder on your C: (IN DOSBOX !!!!!) let say 'BA2220' or something (keep it simple and short), then copy all the files folders from your D: to that folder, and try to run the game from that folder on your C:

And a bit more details about this:
Could be helpfull here.

[Edit]
Have this game CD laying around somewhere, gonna take a look @this later today or tomorrow .... if I'm bored enough.