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[kendoka]

argh

vista is being so lame..

installed dosbox followed everything up in that guide up to the point of changing the cycles and the autoexec line, after doing that it wont let me save the file (wtf?) - it says make sure i have the correct file and path name (which i do) ... help?

so then i just decided to run csnrgrt without doing all that, and now i can see the error message - its the same as the post i said above but now i see it, the error message says:

rar sfx archive

extracting from csnrgrt.exe

compressed archive created using winrar 3.11 by nazo.

be sure to read the readme.txt in the game directory please.

creating IDATA OK

not enough memoryExtracting IDATA\FILE_ID.DIZ

program aborted

please help me i rly wanna play this game again, i played it like crazy when i was young and its still my favourite game ever. so how happy was i to find it here, and now it wont work!

[The Fifth Horseman]

installed dosbox followed everything up in that guide up to the point of changing the cycles and the autoexec line, after doing that it wont let me save the file (wtf?) - it says make sure i have the correct file and path name (which i do) ... help?

The file is set to read-only. Uninstall DOSBox and install it somewhere ELSE than the default Program Files directory (like C:\DOSBox).

rar sfx archive

It's a self-extracting RAR archive. Use WinRar to open it and extract its contents.

[kendoka]

thanks - the dosbox conf saved now.

It's a self-extracting RAR archive. Use WinRar to open it and extract its contents.

i dont understand this part, can you go through the steps of what you mean?

this is what i did so far -

download the crusader 2 - no regret rar file.
extracted files to c:\crusader - now in there are 6 csnrgrt applications - 1 is csnrgrt.exe and the other 5 are rar files - which i why i dont get what u mean.

i tried extracting one of the rar files and winrar gave me a message about invalid/corrupt information when it was extracting, and same if i tried to extract the .exe file.

:wondering:

[dosraider]

Simply double click on the exe file, this will decompress the archive.

[kendoka]

Originally Posted by dosraider

Simply double click on the exe file, this will decompress the archive.

that doesnt work, thats what i did initially - have a look at my earlier post

[dosraider]

Hmmmm, see, sorry for that. Vista and dos applic ......

That's what you can do:
open dosboxconf again and look for:

[dosbox]
# language -- Select another language file.
# memsize -- Amount of memory DOSBox has in megabytes.
# machine -- The type of machine tries to emulate:hercules,cga,tandy,pcjr,vga.
# captures -- Directory where things like wave,midi,screenshot get captured.

language=
machine=vga
captures=capture
memsize=16

change memsize to 64 as this:

[dosbox]
# language -- Select another language file.
# memsize -- Amount of memory DOSBox has in megabytes.
# machine -- The type of machine tries to emulate:hercules,cga,tandy,pcjr,vga.
# captures -- Directory where things like wave,midi,screenshot get captured.

language=
machine=vga
captures=capture
memsize=64

Now be sure that those 6 files (5xCSNRGRT.r0x+ 1xCSNRGRT.EXE) are in the same folder that you mount as C in dosbox.
Input CSNRGRT , this will start the SFX' selfextracting archive' and will have enough memory in dosbox to run.

Have tested it and it works.

[EDIT]
As you said c:\crusader your lines will be
mount c c:\crusader
c:
csnrgrt

*Don't add those bold lines in dosboxconf, those are only needed once to decompress the archive.

[The Fifth Horseman]

i dont understand this part, can you go through the steps of what you mean?

Self-extracting archive is just like a RAR file, except it is combined with an executable code that allows the archive to be unpacked without need for a third-party program (that's why it's called self-extracting, duh)

i tried extracting one of the rar files and winrar gave me a message about invalid/corrupt information when it was extracting, and same if i tried to extract the .exe file.

Run WinRar first. Then from its manager window locate the executable file and try to open it. Don't be surprised, just see what will result.

and the other 5 are rar files
winrar gave me a message about invalid/corrupt information

Sounds like a multi-part archive (not uncommon, back in the days).
You might want to tell us the exact names of the files and the exact contents of the error message.