The game data must be unpacked into a directory named WAR2, and WAR2 must be placed so that it is visible as itself in your DOSBox C mount.
Please double-check to ensure that is the case.

If you want to mount the directories manually, you need to mount either the TOD or DP sbdirectory as drive d, using the -t cdrom parameter

Help
 

Hi guys i'm a fan from Italy. I'd like to play Warcraft 2 but i'm not really an insider about dos box and those issues. Would you like to be kind and try to explain in the easiest way how to fix the problem that occur me when i start the game and it asks me for CD? I actually didn't get exactly the point about this sentence "the game must be mounted so that there's a C:\WAR2 directory visible inside DOSBox." in the voice "How to run" in the website. Thank you in advance.

Try to follow the tutorial first to get familiar with DOSBox: http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=14406

Now, assuming you followed the tutorial, you have a C:\Oldgames directory that's mounted as your C drive in DOSbox on start.
Unpack Warcraft 2 from the archive into that directory.
Run war2.bat .
You're ready, enjoy the game. :)

For those with the problem of the game asking for a disk, check your autoexec section (scroll down to the end) in DOSBox options and make sure to delete the line that has -t cdrom at the end of it, that seems to have helped me after I basically stumbled over it while experimenting because nothing in this thread had helped me though I suppose I could have missed a post maybe.

Regardless, here's an example.

Delete the bolded line if you want to play WC2 as the bat file drive mounting seems to conflict with autoexec drive mounting. Happy playing! :)

Warcraft 2 on DOSBOX issues
 

After the file downloaded from Abandonia.. It is named warcra~1 7z on my dosbox when I perform a DIR. I can't seem to do a .bat file .exe on it. It keeps on saying illegal command. I hope someone had this same issue and was able to resolve it.
I mounted it as c C:\dosprogs\

c:

cd \war2
war2.bat


and it still don't work..

.7z means it's archive. 7z-archive, to be exact. Unpack it before trying to start.

That's weird. I thought we only did .zip archives?

No, we have 7z since long ago.

Ray, you can more easily do the unpacking in Windows outside DOSBox. What you have to mount later is the contents of the zip/7z, not the compressed archive itself.

http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=17497

Nope.
Not working.
Followed them steps precisely:

1.-creating c:\oldgames
2.-unpacking the contents (copied war2 DIR directly to the c:\oldgames-folder)
3.-starting DOSBox v 0.70
-> mount c c:\oldgames
-> cd war2
-> war2.bat
line before start of game: **** TOD - directory doesn't exist

- editing the start.bat from TOD to ToD
- repeating steps 1.-3.
line before start of game: **** TOD - directory doesn't exist

- mounting the CD-ROM as follows:
-> mount d c:\oldgames\war2
- steps 1-3
line before start of game: **** TOD - directory doesn't exist

After exiting the game i'm told that drive D has been successfully removed.

I'm rather annoyed, spent 2h trying to get it to work. Since I've been a huge fan of your site for years now, some helpful advice would be greatly appreciated.

thx

Stan

So, does the directory exist? It should be in the war2 directory.

Anyway, I downloaded the game and it works just as promised. I extracted the archive with 7zip in my DOSBox C-drive, did cd war2 and executed war2.bat: game started, no problems.

You must be doing something differently or have missing files/folders. Also, if you already have a D-drive mounted before running the script (war2.bat) it won't work on the first run (it doesn't unmount the D-drive first, only after exiting the game).