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Originally Posted by The Fifth Horseman

7Z is an archive. Games are packed into those so that you can download them as a single file.
You need to unpack it, and then run the unpacked game in DOSBox. http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=14406

To start the game, use START.BAT . It will allow you to choose whether you want to play the base game or the expansion and perform additional tasks needed to ensure whichever you chose runs properly.

Originally Posted by The Fifth Horseman

7Z is an archive. Games are packed into those so that you can download them as a single file.
You need to unpack it, and then run the unpacked game in DOSBox. http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=14406

To start the game, use START.BAT . It will allow you to choose whether you want to play the base game or the expansion and perform additional tasks needed to ensure whichever you chose runs properly.

Thanks for the help with the 7z. I feel pretty lame though given the files are still dodging any form of being opened beyond menus.

Hate to ask a second question on this but can I get a link to the IIRC fix for the game?

It's bothering me that the virtual space will read the game enough to access the menus but that after that for anything not requiring the cd like Lans it still demands to find a cd drive. I don't have Rewritable disks or other capabilities to write cd's to copy paste for it. I tried switching the CD path directory in the Settings to send it on a path to it's own data files in the ToD, but nothing occurred.

[The Fifth Horseman]

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

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.

Originally Posted by example

# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
# You can put your MOUNT lines here.
mount C X:\
mount D X:\ -t cdrom
C:
CLS

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!

[arete]

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

[Japo]

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