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Zargen
19-12-2010, 02:45 AM
And allocate space for working files.
TO continue installation, type a letter that designates the hard drive where you want the game files stored or press ENTER to quit:

Ok. Every time I mount Darklands and run the darklands.exe command I get this error. What exactly does it mean? Because it's not accepting any commands I imput. Tried using my C drive but it gives a "Invalid drive letter specified." message. Same with all other drive letters. Is this a common occurrence? I've never gotten this problem playing Master of Magic.

I poured through the DOSbox wiki looking for a way to get around it but no such luck :cry:

Anyone have any input?

I'm running Windows 7 if that is any help.
dosraider
19-12-2010, 06:10 AM
Your mount lines?

Also:
http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=22241

BTW, there is no 'darklands.exe', it's 'darkland.exe'.
Also: rename the darklands folder in the archive to darkland
Zargen
19-12-2010, 09:24 AM
The folder was already darkland, same with the .exe Force of habit I guess to add the s :bleh1:

I go with the usual mount line

mount c c:\Darkland\

then run the DARKLAND.exe file and it goes straight to that message.
Scatty
19-12-2010, 10:09 AM
Try mounting directly the drive c: with

mount c c:\

then switching to the game folder with

cd \darkland

and see if that helps.
dosraider
19-12-2010, 10:14 AM
I'm running Windows 7 if that is any help.

mount c c:\
NO

Extract the darkland folder to
c:\users\your name\oldgames\ so that your win7 path is:
c:\users\your name\oldgames\darkland\
To run the game::
mount c "c:\users\your name\oldgames\"
c:
cd darkland
darkland


Can't be that hard to accomplish, is it?

If you don't want to have to type the mount lines over and over again:

Also:
http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=22241
Zargen
19-12-2010, 07:55 PM
That definitely helped with the original problem dosraider.

Though now I get the CD-ROM drive could not be found!

Check to see that the CD-ROM drive is on-line and that the Darklands disc is loaded.

error.
Zargen
19-12-2010, 08:17 PM
Go ahead and forget that last part. I got the game to work. Thanks for the help :OK: