I Need Help With Dos

[mattex]

i cant play any dos games heres is my error:
when i goto load it by double clicking on the exe it says something about c:/windows/system32/autoexe.nt is not sutible for running MS-DOS and microsoft aplications...... can someone tell micosoft to put erros into plain english so i can fix it? :sniper:

anyways can someone help me out here? :help:

[Eagle of Fire]

Use DOSBox or VDMSound.

[mattex]

were would i be able to get dosbox?

[Guest]

its all right i found it ill try it now

[Eagle of Fire]

This site (http://www.abandonia.com/main.php?nav=programs) will provide you a link for that program.

You will probably love that site, it's really usefull and it has a lot of abadonware games to download... And it also has a very good forum, the members there are always very helpfull and interesting to talk to. :ok:


Edit: seems like I posted this just after your second post... Oh well, a good laugh never killed anybody isn't? :D

[Guest]

how do i load a game with dos box the commands are very confusing :blink:

[Eagle of Fire]

I beleive all the commands are well described in the helpfile.

If you really don't want to read the helpfile (altought I don't see why), you only need to know a few commands to get you started. First if you have any knowledge of DOS altogether, know that all the old basic commands such as cd and dir works in DOSBox.

First you will realise that you are on a strange disk labelled Z. That disk is emulated and is DOSBox default tree. It is not really important.

To get your game running you will need to "mount" the directory of your game into another drive emulated by DOSBox. For example I have my copy of Lemmings 2 - The Tribes on my real computer HD, located at c:\jeux\lemm2. To "mount" that game into DOSBox I would type (without the brackets) "mount c c:\jeux\lemm2" where c is the emulated drive I wish to "mount" the game folder to (could be anything from A to Y as long as I know) and c:\jeux\lemm2 is the directory where the game is located on my real HD.

After the game directory is successfully "mounted" on the emulated drive "C" (read above), you will need to move from drive "Z" to drive "C". To do this you use the old DOS commands. Simply type c: and you will get there. Once there you can use the DOS command DIR to look at all the files in that directory. If there is too much files and you can't see them all in a single screen, you can use DIR/W or DIR/P instead.

Once you are in the right directory (you should already be in the right directory if you did it well, but you might need to switch directory with the CD command) you only need to type the name of the starting file to get to the game. For example, I would need to type "L2-FIX.com" to play Lemmings 2. Note that you do not need to type the .com to do so, typing simply L2-FIX would be enough.

After you start your game use the CTRL-F11 and CTRL-F12 keys to slow or speed up the game as needed. You will need a big computer to emulate perfectly some of the new games and you should have no problems to run older games (like Lemmings 2) even with a slow computer. The perfect cycles (speed) for each game is very computer dependant and you should test a little with each game to get optimal speed.

Do not forget that you can go fullscreen with the ALT-Enter key.


I think that's pretty much it. :ok:

[mattex]

i got it now with its intro file
i mounted my games as c then went c: dir
and typed in the game name
it was a long and annoying process :wall: but i got it :Brain:


i just have to type in the mount command every time.........

[Eagle of Fire]

Well, that's what I do. Being used to using DOS in my early computer days I don't find it annoying at all, but I do understand your point. I think another program meant to run alongside with DOSBox exist. It would be called D-Fend but I have no clue about it. I don't use it and only heard from it briefly from other members of this forum.

They might be able to help you better than me on this matter when they log on latter on today.

[Data]

Eagle of Fire is becomming quite a dosbox expert! I should becareful.

I'm glad to see that more experts rise from the depth of the ancient dos eara

[Red Diablo]

I've actually added the mount command in the start-up file of Dosbox, so I don't have to enter it everytime. Nice way of removing this small annoyance. :ok:

[Wael]

Originally posted by Red Diablo@Nov 11 2004, 02:12 PM
I've actually added the mount command in the start-up file of Dosbox, so I don't have to enter it everytime. Nice way of removing this small annoyance. :ok:
Gratitude for pointing that out.

Didn´t know it was possible.

[wormpaul]

How to do that exactly??

maybe i can do it also...but this is much easier :angel:

[FreeFreddy]

Just look for the following line in dosbox.conf:

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.

and add the commands there you want to be executed at start. ;)

[Rogue]

I used to set couple lines in config file. (mostly to mount a folder as C drive, then cd to that folder, mount a cd rom drive and finaly clear the screen, but after I got D-Fend I stoped to do that as each game got it's file created automaticly at the time I am adding a game to the program. :ok:

Here are the lines I used to add to bottom of config file (belove this line: '# Lines in this section will be run at startup.':

mount C "C:\DOS\CDrive"
mount D "E:\" -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
C:
CLS

[JJXB]

i don't bother with dosbox now. i got vmware and i installed freedos on one of the virtual machines with a cd-rom driver. runs dos games far better than dosbox ever will

[Rogue]

I got VirtualPC, but it is too slow. :blink: Is vmware any faster?

FreeDOS is nice package.

Have you tried MS DOS 7.10 (http://newdos.yginfo.net/msdos71/)?

Nice too, comes also with CD instalation.

[Data]

Originally posted by JJXB@Nov 11 2004, 05:11 PM
i don't bother with dosbox now. i got vmware and i installed freedos on one of the virtual machines with a cd-rom driver. runs dos games far better than dosbox ever will
right :) as if the vmware people care about dos. :)

[JJXB]

Originally posted by Anubis+Nov 11 2004, 04:37 PM****</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Anubis @ Nov 11 2004, 04:37 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>I got VirtualPC, but it is too slow.* :blink:* Is vmware any faster?*

FreeDOS is nice package.

Have you tried MS DOS 7.10 (http://newdos.yginfo.net/msdos71/)?

Nice too, comes also with CD instalation.[/b]
that depends on your system specs. i have an amd duron 857mhz processor with 384mb of ram and 30gb hd and i tried running games in dosbox and VMware and i have had no problems with speed in vmware (i did in dosbox though) and i'll try out MS-DOS 7.10, thanks for the link :)

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i don't bother with dosbox now. i got vmware and i installed freedos on one of the virtual machines with a cd-rom driver. runs dos games far better than dosbox ever will [/quote]
right :) as if the vmware people care about dos. :)[/b][/quote]
they intended for it to run most operating systems (dos included) they didn't intend for it to run freedos but it still works well on there so im happy :)