[Salmoneaus]

Thanks for your willingness to help!

Here goes:

I unzip the .rar, leaving me with a Shannara folder. I've tried to run it in two ways.

Way #1:
Place Shannara in a C:\Games\Shannara folder.
Open DosBox
"Mount C C:\Games\Shannara"
Switch to the C: directory
Run "Shannara"

I get the music, I get to the main Shannara title screen, and then a black screen with a gray box says: "Can't find .\Restart.dat"

Then the game opens to the first outdoors panorama, and all the functionality is there. But when I try to save, it says: "Can't find .\Shannara000.sav". I don't play any further, even though I could, as the prospect of not saving doesn't appeal to me.


Way #2 (This actually works, once, when you do it, but then it stops working on the second trial)
Mount D C:\Games\Shannara (mount Shannara as a disc drive)
Mount C C:\Dosbox\
Switch to D: directory
Run "Install"
Install Shannara to the C: drive (which is really C:\Dosbox, another folder I made)
Switch to C: directory
Run "Shannara"
everything works fine. Even was able to save.

But after closing dosbox, and reopening, and even mounting the C:\Games\Shannara to D, and the C:\Dosbox\Shannara to C, and then running Shannara from C: or D:, I get the same error message:

"Cannot find .\restart.dat". If I run from the Virtual C, it then crashes. If I run from the Virtual D, I'm allowed into the game, but again with the "Can't find Shannara000.sav" if I try to save.

There you have it. Could you please tell me your mount method that worked?

Thanks for reading, and thanks for any input sir!