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02-10-2004 06:57 AM

Madow

I've got lots of sound problems with Pizza Tycoon and Sim Farm

26-09-2004 07:22 AM

Eagle of Fire

Happy to be of some help.

26-09-2004 02:29 AM

Hobbs

Quote:

Originally posted by Eagle of Fire@Sep 25 2004, 04:14 AM
The problem I been describing will happen on any machine, Windows or not.

Sorry lol I was refering to FreeFreddys post, - You was right it was the attributes I changed them and now it works.

Thanks a lot!

25-09-2004 04:14 AM

Eagle of Fire

The problem I been describing will happen on any machine, Windows or not.

Oh, and it should be the same procedure for Win95 and Win98, if I remember well. WinXP is only slightly more complicated in it's tabs.

25-09-2004 02:11 AM

Hobbs

No this PC is NOT an XP PC as i noted in my original post it is a 486DX2 with win95, Eagle of Fire - I will check that out and post my findings thanks!

24-09-2004 10:07 PM

Eagle of Fire

I had problems before with games who never wanted to save. The problem been solved when I discovered that the archive flagged the save files as read only :not_ok:

Answer to this problem (on XP): select all the game files, right click on them, then go to properties. Then you should see at the bottom several boxes. Be sure Read only is not Xed. You might want to do this only on the save files (usually on their own directory) or on all the program files and subfolders, at your leizure.

Answer to this problem (on DOS): go to the game directory and type attrib -a *.*

I am not 100% sure about the DOS command because it been an awfull lot of time since I last used DOS... But if you know how to use DOS, you should be fine managing to understand how Attrib works...

24-09-2004 02:48 PM

Data

yes. They don't know the underlying system. Dosbox emulates a filesystem the games like.

I run my games myself on a ext3 filesystem

24-09-2004 02:19 PM

FreeFreddy

DosBox yes, but are the games running in it able to save files on NTFS-system?

24-09-2004 12:57 PM

Data

Quote:

Originally posted by FreeFreddy@Sep 24 2004, 01:32 PM
Are you using Windows XP? And probably NTFS as the file-system too? That's probably the thing. I'm not 100% sure, but think that even with DosBox games cannot save any files on NTFS. You need to convert the file system to FAT32, that could also mean you need to deinstall and reinstall Windows XP during the process.
Probably there're some programs on the internet that can do that without the need to remove anything, though.

dosbox runs fine on ntfs

24-09-2004 12:32 PM

FreeFreddy

Are you using Windows XP? And probably NTFS as the file-system too? That's probably the thing. I'm not 100% sure, but think that even with DosBox games cannot save any files on NTFS. You need to convert the file system to FAT32, that could also mean you need to deinstall and reinstall Windows XP during the process.
Probably there're some programs on the internet that can do that without the need to remove anything, though.

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