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18-01-2018 08:13 PM

twillight

I have no idea how to identify where you are in the game, as the related walkthroughs are ... not available that way.

Here is a written one. I used that website, and found it trustable.
And here is a "let's play" videoseries. This should be unmistakable.

EDIT: ye. Seems you only read the badge at the beginning but did not pick it up.

18-01-2018 10:40 AM

FrustratedPlayer

I think I am stuck

Hello!

I am really enjoying this game (albeit sometimes with help of walkthrough) but I think I got stuck!!

I just got the field generator from the dig site on the heechee ancient homeworld, and then went to the administrative planet. I got out, the technician talked with me, but now I can't progress.

According to the walkthrough, I need to wear the badge so I can go north. But I don't have any badge!!??

And In two different walkthroughs, I can't find any references to a badge to wear either, execpt the one in mission control in part one!? But I examined that one for the code, I don't think I took it with me, or at least I don't have it anymore right now I think!

Which badge are they talking about!? I do not want to have come this far only to have to start all over from the beginning!!?

08-06-2014 04:47 PM

shields

Quote:

Originally Posted by DonCorleone

Ok. For those who will encouter this problem in the future:

Don't drag the 'Home.exe' over the dosbox icon. That will mount the game containing folder as drive c. But the game's looking for C:\Gateway2.
So you have two options:

1. Mount your drive manually in dosbox. You should mount that folder as drive C: which contains the Gateway2 folder.

2. Drag the entire folder which contains the Gateway2-folder over the dosbox.exe.

And everything will run smooth...

THIS WORKS! I had Gateway 2 in a "games" folder on my C drive. I would mount C:\Games and then gateway, but couldn't save and no intro.......I took Gateway2 out of games folder and put directly into C:\ and mounted C:\Gateway2. ran perfectly. thank you

09-11-2011 12:15 AM

catchaserguns

I have found a solution on the getting the pictures to work on this game. Make sure the ini. file directories are the same as the main directory. Also
when you use dosbox don't use a frontend on this game. When you start this game do it this way in dosbox

mount c c:\
Cd GW2 or whatever it appears on your HD

This worked for me.
Don't mount it like this
mount c c:\GW2

Good luck

17-02-2011 06:34 PM

Japo

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guest

I knew it was the only thing that would work, or so I thought.

No, that's never the case. If the game needs to find itself at the (virtual) path "c:\gateway2\", you can of course install it at the real path "c:\gateway2\" and mount c:\ as c:\, but you can as well install the game at "c:\users\...\dos\gateway2\", and mount "c:\users\...\dos\" as c:\

It's all in the DOSBox manual. The key is understanding real and virtual, which is hard at first.

Mounting in itself doesn't do anything. The danger is in case you make a mistake afterwards, that whatever you do in DOSBox will be done to the whole disk, whereas if you mounted a particular folder as virtual hard disk, whatever you did even by error in DOSBox would be necessarily limited to the folders mounted as disks.

The most common and catastrophic scenario is when somebody has the habit to mount the whole real C: drive as virtual C: drive, and wants to install Windows 3.x or earlier in DOSBox. If he chooses the default installation path C:\Windows (and DOSBox is running with admin privileges), he will in fact overwrite his real host Windows and destroy it.

On the other hand there's no problem in mounting anything as a virtual CD, since they're read-only, and DOSBox won't change any file in a virtual CD.

17-02-2011 02:00 PM

Guest

Quote:

Originally Posted by Japo

It's a very bad idea to mount your real hard disk in DOSBox, you should see a warning when you do.

Do you know why, by any chance? What can go wrong?

I just had to do this (mount my actual hard c drive) because after reading the entire thread, I knew it was the only thing that would work, or so I thought.

It worked, but you got me scared.

What should I be afraid that I'm may do to my system?

Thanks for any feedback.

30-01-2011 04:45 PM

Japo

First of all, please edit your previous post instead of triple- or double-posting.

It's a very bad idea to mount your real hard disk in DOSBox, you should see a warning when you do. You can mount each game folder as C: every time--unless the games needs to find itself at another particular path, see this previous post--or you may want to have a dedicated folder where you put all your DOS games and that you always mount as the virtual C:

CD-ROM stands for Compact Disk - Read Only Memory, so no wonder you can't save and get other errors. These games were to be installed on a hard disk.

30-01-2011 03:43 PM

Geitzeist

I've read this entire thread and tried everything, but I can't get this game to play in DOSBox 0.74 without a blank screen (but with music) and an error message about the missing restart.dat file after I press escape. I installed the game in c:\gateway2. I mount the directory as a CD-ROM drive d:\ in dosbox. I've tried endless variations and get the same results. More advice needed.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Geitzeist

NEVERMIND. Got it. Mount c as c:\ minus the gateway2 subdirectory as a CD-ROM, and the game works fine.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Geitzeist

NEVERMIND. Got it. Mount c as c:\ minus the gateway2 subdirectory as a CD-ROM, and the game works fine.

One more thing I've discovered for anyone with this problem: Mount c:\ as a drive, not a CD-ROM or else you'll still get the restart.dat error and won't be able to save games.

24-03-2007 02:12 PM

Guest

Can anyone recommend a similar game of equal entertainment BESIDES Gateway I? Gateway II is really the only text based game I've ever played, but I find them quite interesting.

24-03-2007 12:28 PM

Guest

My apologies folks. I figured out what I was doing wrong, and I feel pretty stupid. The game looks for c:\gateway2, but since I mount that directory to c:\ , c:\gateway2\xfile.exe becomes c:\xfile.exe, and there is no subdirectory \gateway2. So, mounted the whole of drive c:\ to c:\ in DOSBox, and it works perfectly. Music, intro, saves and restores. Thanks, and ciao. :brain:

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