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[Chris]

left mouse button - accelerate
right mouse button - brake
mouse - steering
space - one gear up
enter - one gear down

help. i cant start the game!!!!!!.

[vicious]

You should be more specific on your problem. You cannot run the game under Windows XP. You have to use dosbox. You can find it at the utilities section of this site along with its manual. You may also use VDMS but i had sound problems with that one.

I hope that was of help....

It doesn't work for me either. I click the start icon and the DOS screen comes up for a second, then disappears. The end.

I can't seem to start a new production. Is there like a minimum to the amount of stock or workers?

Hello guys, I´m from Brazil and love so much te Motor City.

Some questions:

1 - What is the best in Ad? How much % in Magazines, Exposition and Ad Campaign?

2 - I have many problemas to drive my cars and test them. Because when I do left/right with my mouse it gone TOO FAST and I cant control the car.

3 - My configuration to grow up is buy the bodies and study the chassis e engines! What you think?

thanks for all, hugs!

Luiz

Hello, I can't start the game too.
I am skilled in computer science but I've found no methods to start the game, because I can't find the .exe or the .com or the .bat !

I unzip the motorcity.zip in the \CDRIVE folder under the DOSBox installation.
Then, I can see only two .exe files: a setup.exe and a idmas.exe.
In a DOSBox prompt, I launch setup.exe and it works perfectly but it's needed just to setup the sound card.
When I try the idmas.exe it keeps asking me "On which drive you have installed MOTOR CITY? (C,D,E..):".

There is no way to continue, even typing any letter.

I loved Detroit and Motor City, and I'd happy if anyone can kindly help me.
Thanks.

Originally Posted by Guest

When I try the idmas.exe it keeps asking me "On which drive you have installed MOTOR CITY? (C,D,E..):".

There is no way to continue, even typing any letter.

Now, years later, I had the same problem. Driving me nuts.
Turns out that my unpacker under linux unpacked it incorrectly and did not preserve directory structure correctly.
Once I fixed it, everything worked fine. Just one letter (usually C) will do.

There should be only few files under root and most of them under GFX and LEVEL

drwxrwxr-x 2  12288 nov   16 10:29 GFX
drwxrwxr-x 2   4096 nov   15 15:13 LEVEL
-rw-rw-r-- 1 696680 okt    6  1994 ICVFX.D01
-rw-rw-r-- 1 696680 okt    6  1994 ICVFX.D02
-rw-rw-r-- 1     64 nov   16 10:29 IDMAS.CFG
-rw-rw-r-- 1 127570 okt    6  1994 IDMAS.DAT
-rw-rw-r-- 1 212384 juuli  6  1995 IDMAS.EXE
-rw-rw-r-- 1  46555 märts 29  1995 MFDNS.DRV
-rw-rw-r-- 1      5 nov   15 15:13 OLD.CFG
-rw-rw-r-- 1  36557 märts 29  1995 SETUP.EXE

type \CDRIVE or C:\CDRIVE or wherever the game is installed. it worked for me.

how do you avoid the factories being burned to ground and what do you do if that happens? :blink: