SSI D&D GoldBox games (Pool of Radiance, Krynn, etc.)
Hello everyone.
So I tried to play Pool of Radiance via dosbox, when I made a character, the game asked me to insert disk 3 and then froze. I thought this was just a bug for that game so I tried Champions of Krynn. Did the same thing, it gave me an error. Is there any kind of fix for this? Cheers! :) |
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and i might review pool of radiance =D |
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- Create a new folder "C:\Krynn" - Move "COK" into that new folder, so you now have "C:\Krynn\COK" - Start the game by typing: Code:
mount c c:\krynn |
Part of the problem might be that that the pool.cfg file has a line in it for where both the game is and where the saves go. I have a similar problem when I try to run Pool of radiance that is setup for dosbox in regular windows. My pool.cfg file is as follows:
E P C:\POOLRAD\ C:\POOLRAD\ N But the game is installed in C:\DOSROOT\POOLRAD The drive is mounted as MOUNT C: C:\DOSROOT. All of the gold/silver box games as like this if I remember correctly. |
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There is better solution: if you'll delete .cfg altogether, game will ask all needed questions again upon first start. :)
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1.- Graphic mode: E(GA) / C(GA) / T(andy) 2.- Sound mode: P(C speaker) / T(andy) / S(ilent) 3.- Where the game is installed. 4.- Where the saves will be stored. 5.- I don't know the meaning of this, apparently it can be F or N. Does anyone know?? But later Goldbox games have more, different lines! I think 3 and 4 can be relative paths, but I haven't tried extensively, specially with 3. But one important thing about them is that they must end with a trailing backslash "\". So for example "c:\poolrad\", not "c:\poolrad". Also a root such as "c:\" is possible. But both lines behave differently when this fails. If line 3 has no trailing backslash you will get the error and the game won't run. For the save directory, the engine actually removes internally the trailing backslash, in fact it removes any last character: so if the trailing backslash is missing from the file, the game will work the same, saving in another folder missing the last character of the intended one. For example it will create "c:\poolrad\sav" instead of ""c:\poolrad\save", or "c:\poolra" instead of "c:\poolrad". Funny. __________________ I've included in the archive for Pool of radiance a script to create the .cfg file each time no matter where the game was mounted. Because of the stupid trailing backslash, batch commands weren't enough, and I created a program cfg.exe: Code:
@echo off Code:
/* Gold Box Starter by Japo @ Abandonia.com Quote:
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