Dune

[Paco]

Dune

Info: Abandonia (http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/46/Dune.html), MobyGames
(http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/dune)
Download(s):
4shared (http://www.4shared.com/dir/14261983/9ca6e7ef/DUNE.html) [ISO] [185 MB]

Uploaded by: Ermuli (http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/../user/8977)

[Abandoned Witch]

Thank you for this game!

[ianphillips2347]

I'm hoping for a little help.

I have got to the part where Jessica has told me to go into the desert and wait but, I've waited for 10 days (skiping via the wait until morning / evening) and also tried just waiting but to no avail.

I've gone 15 step back into the desert, tried 15 step to the left, tried 15 steps to the right, etc, etc....please, any advice?

Thanks

[The Fifth Horseman]

You must go south from the palace, far enough that it is no longer visible (and IIRC a space or two further than that). Then wait.

[bigmangafan]

i d/led dune from the iso cellar but have trouble running it from dosbox. i mounted the iso and the game as well but dosbox won't run with the
dune.bat command.

what am i missing?

[bigmangafan]

im using mac laptop by the way.

[Eagle of Fire]

A .bat is a batch file. It is a text file used to store and automate commands you would normally write yourself.

You can open the batch file with any word editor and see the content (I recommend notepad or WordPad). Within the file you might find commands using a defined path. If that path is not the same than the path you used to mount your game then it will not be able to target the right file and will obviously fail.

I'd check that first if I were you.

[bigmangafan]

hi anyway i opened the dune.bat like you said.

and the command name i found was dncdprg

so i changed it to dune or dune.bat instead but

after that dosbox doesn't seem to respond after i run the command.

damn.

[The Fifth Horseman]

...if dune.bat runs itself again, what will happen?
An infinite loop, that's what. EOF did not give you wrong instructions. You misinterpreted them.

Let's go through the basics:
1. What have you unpacked and where to?
2. What commands are you entering after starting DOSBox?
3. What are the contents of your config file? If you have not modified it, you can just say it's default.
4. Have you installed the game from the CD?

[bigmangafan]

i just unzipped dune_eng.rar and duneup.zip into a dunecd folder within my game folder from dune.b1

then i used dapplegrey frontend to set the game path, mount the game folder
as drive C and mount the CD-ROM using the dune.iso

i don't seem to have a dosbox.conf file.

No i had trouble reading the CD-ROM during installation. I thought if i mounted it via dosbox i could run it together with the game.

Let's go through the basics:
1. What have you unpacked and where to?
2. What commands are you entering after starting DOSBox?
3. What are the contents of your config file? If you have not modified it, you can just say it's default.
4. Have you installed the game from the CD?[/QUOTE]

[The Fifth Horseman]

No i had trouble reading the CD-ROM during installation. I thought if i mounted it via dosbox i could run it together with the game. The game runs entirely from the CD. The installation consists of creating a directory on your HDD to store the saves in and a batch file that runs the game with your selected options. The floppy version will not use the CD version's assets.
Getting an error message about CD drive speed is normal and does not affect the rest of the installation.

The actual problem is that dune.bat tries to run the game from the root of your C drive - where it does not exist, period.
Replace contents of dune.bat with this:
@echo off
REM *** DUNE-CD launcher V3.6 ***
d:
DNCDPRG AMR ADP220 SBP2227 EMS 386 SAF WRIC:\DUNE\

[bigmangafan]

Hey, thanks a bunch!

It finally worked. Long live the fighters.

[pyromanikx]

Dune II is by far one of my favorite games of all-time. Thanks guys for allowing me to replay one of the best all-time games.


RIP: Westwood Studios.