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Originally Posted by Geezer

That should have worked. Try deleting the entire directory and then renaming the zip file to TREK5.ZIP. Then extract the zip file again making sure it extracts to a directory named TREK5 at the root of your hard drive. The game is expecting the directory to be at C:\TREK5. It did not give any options on other places to install. Also, don't run INSTALL.BAT you don't need to. Start the game with ST5.EXE.

In DOSBox mount a drive letter C to the root of the hard drive (mount C C:\ or, if your hard drive is D: mount c d:\ )so that the executable is located at C:\TREK5\ST5.EXE. Do not mount C directly to the TREK5 directory. If you do it will cause the problem that you are having. This game is really picky about path names. Are you using any kind of DOSBox front end program?

I've been playing around with a shortcut in windows to make this run.
Here's what worked for me:

My DOSBox 0.73 file is in D:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.73\
My ST5.EXE file is in D:\Games\DOS Box\Star Trek V - The Final Frontier\

I made a shortcut to DOSBox, opened its properties, this is the Target box:

"D:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.73\dosbox.exe" -c "MOUNT c 'D:\Games\DOS Box\Star Trek V - The Final Frontier\'" -c "c:\" -c "c:\trek5\st5.exe" -fullscreen -exit

Now I can move the shortcut anywhere on the computer and the game will work from the directory where I choose for it to be located.

Hope this helps...

[dosraider]

Originally Posted by johncharles1971

"D:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.73\dosbox.exe" -c "MOUNT c 'D:\Games\DOS Box\Star Trek V - The Final Frontier\'" -c "c:\" -c "c:\trek5\st5.exe" -fullscreen -exit

BTW, Windows 8654 will allow you to create folders approx 125.325.698.321 chars long.
So that you will be able to create a
D:\games\this is the folder for dosgames running in dosbox\and this is the star trek spinal frontier game folder\here are the files needed to play\etcetera\etcetera\

[The Fifth Horseman]

johncharles1971: The same can be done using the [autoexec] section in the config file.

Dosraider: Well, the NTFS file system _does_ allow 255 character paths already... Where the path you wrote is "only" 162 chars long.

(that said, abbreviations rule - F:\Dosgames\shorted\STFinal\)

Hi guys!
I am really happy I found this game.
Unlikely, I can't start it on my Mac: I downloaded the latest dosbox version.
When I start the game, it asks me the video card (ok) and then the level.
At this point, whatever I choose, this message appears:

"Please instert 5.25 Disk #3 or 3.5 Disk #3.
Hit any key to continue..."

and I can't go on...!!!!!
What can I do?
Thanks and the best regards

Herger

[dosraider]

Read post #6 pag 1.

I'm to lazy to "quote" today......

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Originally Posted by boomer12k

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Geezer @ May 2 2007, 01:50 PM) [snapback]289050[/snapback]</div>

OK!!! NOW IT IS WORKING. Thanks for all your help!!!!
It was the dragging of the st5.exe to the dosbox exe that causes the error. When I did it the way you suggested it worked quite well and I get the sounds too!!!
Thanks a big bunch!
Boomer12k

I tried all that and now get a runtime error of R6003 and two error messages in low-res graphics mode, one which says "integer divide by 0" and one which says "can't open input bitmap file 'phasers.snd' (my computer in question does NOTNOT have Windows on it).

[The Fifth Horseman]

(my computer in question does NOTNOT have Windows on it).

Double negation? Explain what you meant by that.

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Originally Posted by The Fifth Horseman

Double negation? Explain what you meant by that.

That was a typing error. And by the way, the only windows on my one computer is version 3.1

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Originally Posted by Romano

Feel free to comment and discuss this game here. Also, if you have any useful tips or tricks don't hesitate to share them with the others! Thanks!

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How do I get it to run in PCDOS7.0?

[The Fifth Horseman]

This might be the very cause of the problems you described.
Try booting your machine from a MS-DOS boot disk and then running the game.