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[Japo]

I'm not familiar with Horseman's tool, but try

C:
Windows

Two commands, Enter in between. In case the tool needs the current directory to be set. You are calling it from Z: if I got you right.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Originally Posted by Paladin045

I open DOSbox 0.72, mount the oldapps folder to a virtual C drive, and give it the following command:

Originally Posted by The Fifth Horseman

* This package is meant to be used with DOSBox 0.73 and newer. It most likely will not work properly in older versions.

The most current DOSBox version (as of May 2010) is 0.74. Consider upgrading.

[Auridon]

Okay, I need some definite help on this whole thing.

I downloaded dosbox .74 and it went into

C:\Program Files (x86)\DOSBox-0.74


Now, I have read through every post on this thread, and still can't seem to figure it out. ( I am new to dosbox, except i had it once to play treasure mountain, but it was much simpler)

Anyways, I read somewhere that dosbox needs to be on c: Mine is currently saying Z: before everything.


Can you please help me on exactly what i need to do to get 3.x installed. I am worried because of what the main post said

"All you have to do is unpack the thing to the location you mount as DOSBox' virtual C drive, unless that location is the root of your system drive. You don't want to overwrite your copy of Windows, trust me on that."

I am not sure what he means by that, I am not sure what a virtual c drive is, and how do i know if the location is the root of my system. please help!!!

[The Fifth Horseman]

This package is targeted towards users with at least basic experience running and configuring DOSBox without frontends.
The beginner's guide should get you up to speed and answers all of the specific questions you asked.

[Moose_of_Abandon]

Originally Posted by The Fifth Horseman

I was hoping to test mine more extensively before making it public, but since I didn't receive any feedback on it for almost two months I guess keeping it under wraps is sort of pointless now:
http://files.abandonia.com/extras/Pr...r%20DOSBox.rar

Worked perfectly for me - first time.

For anyone having problems, here's *exactly* what I did:
(1). Create a directory on my harddrive, in my case: d:\DOSBOX2.

(2). Download and UnRar the above archive (with directories intact !) to d:\DOSBOX2

This gave me the following files and directory structure in D:\DOSBox2

<DIR> WING
<DIR> SB16
<DIR> WIN32APP
<DIR> WINDOWS
windows.bat
Devlod.com

If you don't have this, then you have *not* extracted the RAR file properly (make sure you extract the RAR completely and with paths / directories intact).

(3). Run DOSBox v0.74 and in DOSBox's command window type the following commands:

mount c d:\DOSBOX2
c:
windows

and that's it. Piece of cake.

[Yelrihs36]

Originally Posted by Moose_of_Abandon

Worked perfectly for me - first time.

For anyone having problems, here's *exactly* what I did:
(1). Create a directory on my harddrive, in my case: d:\DOSBOX2.

(2). Download and UnRar the above archive (with directories intact !) to d:\DOSBOX2

This gave me the following files and directory structure in D:\DOSBox2

<DIR> WING
<DIR> SB16
<DIR> WIN32APP
<DIR> WINDOWS
windows.bat
Devlod.com

If you don't have this, then you have *not* extracted the RAR file properly (make sure you extract the RAR completely and with paths / directories intact).

(3). Run DOSBox v0.74 and in DOSBox's command window type the following commands:

mount c d:\DOSBOX2
c:
windows

and that's it. Piece of cake.

That's weird because I did EXACTLY what you did (my DOSbox directory is d:\DOSBOX and that's where I pasted all the files after unzipping the archive) My directory structure is exactly the same as yours and this is what I entered:

MOUNT C D:\DOSBOX
C:
WINDOWS.BAT

And then Windows starts, but then my Program Manager is completely blank. There's nothing in it, it's just completely white. I'm trying to play SimTower on my laptop (Win7 64-bit) and there was a video tutorial I watched but I'm not pretty much stuck because there's nothing to click in the Program Manager.

[Scatty]

You might need first to copy/install games to a sub-folder in the D:\DOSBOX\ folder, since the DOSBOX folder is essentially a complete drive, mounted with DosBox, and you can't access any other folders on drive D: while in DosBox (and with Win 3.11's Program Manager at that), with that mount command.
If there's nothing at all shown in Program Manager, maybe it's because all other sub-folders in DOSBOX are marked as Hidden and/or System and not visible normally.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Originally Posted by Yelrihs36

And then Windows starts, but then my Program Manager is completely blank. There's nothing in it, it's just completely white. I'm trying to play SimTower on my laptop (Win7 64-bit) and there was a video tutorial I watched but I'm not pretty much stuck because there's nothing to click in the Program Manager.

Screenshot, please.

Check that d:\dosbox\windows contains several GRP files: ACCESSOR.GRP, AUDIOSOF.GRP, GAMES.GRP, MAIN.GRP, NETWORK.GRP, QUICKTIM.GRP and STARTUP.GRP
Also verify that PROGMAN.INI contains:

[Settings]
Window=33 21 590 323 1
Order= 1 7 6 8 2 3 5 4
display.drv=S3TRIO.DRV
AutoArrange=0

[Groups]
Group1=C:\WINDOWS\MAIN.GRP
Group2=C:\WINDOWS\ACCESSOR.GRP
Group3=C:\WINDOWS\NETWORK.GRP
Group4=C:\WINDOWS\GAMES.GRP
Group5=C:\WINDOWS\STARTUP.GRP
Group8=C:\WINDOWS\AUDIOSOF.GRP
Group6=C:\WINDOWS\ZOMBIEWA.GRP
Group7=C:\WINDOWS\QUICKTIM.GRP

[Yelrihs36]

Originally Posted by The Fifth Horseman

Screenshot, please.

Check that d:\dosbox\windows contains several GRP files: ACCESSOR.GRP, AUDIOSOF.GRP, GAMES.GRP, MAIN.GRP, NETWORK.GRP, QUICKTIM.GRP and STARTUP.GRP
Also verify that PROGMAN.INI contains:

[Settings]
Window=33 21 590 323 1
Order= 1 7 6 8 2 3 5 4
display.drv=S3TRIO.DRV
AutoArrange=0

[Groups]
Group1=C:\WINDOWS\MAIN.GRP
Group2=C:\WINDOWS\ACCESSOR.GRP
Group3=C:\WINDOWS\NETWORK.GRP
Group4=C:\WINDOWS\GAMES.GRP
Group5=C:\WINDOWS\STARTUP.GRP
Group8=C:\WINDOWS\AUDIOSOF.GRP
Group6=C:\WINDOWS\ZOMBIEWA.GRP
Group7=C:\WINDOWS\QUICKTIM.GRP

AH, I think I know what the problem is now... I opened PROGRAM.INI and while the [settings] part is correct, there is nothing under [groups].
This is what I see:

[Settings]
Window=33 21 590 323 1
Order=1 7 6 8 2 3 5 4
display.drv=S3TRIO.DRV
AutoArrange=0

[Groups]

Should I just add those in myself and save?

EDIT: I added those things into PROGRAM.INI and now it looks okay. Thanks for your help

[PinkyPoo]

Hey, I came across this when I was searching for ways to play my old Sim Tower game. I just can't get your link to work on the original post so that I can get the files. I tried on a different laptop as well as different browsers and neither of them worked. Any help would be lovely!