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[Eagle of Fire]

So, basically you need help with DOS commands?

Like Horseman said, reboot in MS DOS mode if it doesn't work directly with the compatibility options in 98. When in MS DOS, you have several things to check to make your games work.

It seems a guide was lost in the Troubleshooting Archive in the moving because I don't find it anymore... :blink:

I'd recommend you read Mr Creosote Guide to MS DOS. It should help you a lot about the points which are not about DOS syntaxes.

For the syntax itself, use "DIR" to switch directories (with full lenght and no mistakes. If there is a ~ in the name because of Windows, you must type it too!), "del" or "delete" to delete files, "deltree" to delete a directory, "move" to change a directory name or "copy" after creating a new directory to copy all the files to another directory and then "deltree"ing the old directory will do the same. Be carefull tough when deleting or deltreeing, it's irreversible in MS DOS!

Next, is the extentions. It's the 3 letters long extention after the . after the first (up to) 8 letters. They all have their funtions, but you'll want to search for .exe, .bat and .com specifically because that's those extentions which are program starters. Install.exe is usually also your setup program for old games after you install them. Newer games have setup.exe or something similar instead.

Then, there is wildcards. The most used wildcard is *. For example, if you type "DIR *.*", you'll see all the files in the directory. If you type "DIR a*.*", you'll see all the files beginning with a. The second most used wildcard is the "/?" command you add up to the end of another command. Example; "DIR/?". This command should give you an information screen on about every commands you can type in DOS, which is a great help and is the way I learned about all what I am talking about right now. In very rare case this command will not work, but it's either because it's not a genuine DOS command or because you should not mess with that command without knowing what you do.

With all this you should be alble to do whatever you wish, just say so if you need more help.

Edit: I found out the old thread about this. It was in the Troubleshooting Archive but I forgot to pin it so it was lost in the "show the last 30 days threads" option... :tai:
It's back now.