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[Japo]

No, those scripts are run from within DOSBox, so whatever your OS is does not matter.

Incidentally, DOSBox accepts '/' as equivalent to '\'

[The Fifth Horseman]

Originally Posted by mongoose85

If you're having issues running single player on DosBox from a Mac/Linux computer it could be because the War2.bat script is assuming that your host system has windows-style file separators i.e \ instead of /. Since the War2.bat file is really just setting up the START.BAT file and then calling it, one way to fix the issue is by editing START.BAT manually and then starting the program by running START.BAT instead of War2.bat.

The following lines will need to be modified in START.BAT:
Line 2: Set wardir to the absolute path to the WAR2 folder on your host machine
Line 21: Change "%wardir%\TOD" to "%wardir%/TOD"
Line 25: Change "%wardir%\DP" to "%wardir%/DP"

Note that if you run War2.bat after you have modified START.BAT, it will overwrite the changes that you have made and you'll have to change the above lines again.

There's a text file somewhere in there IIRC that you can edit to make the change permament. Been a while since I set this up.

[mongoose85]

Originally Posted by Japo

No, those scripts are run from within DOSBox, so whatever your OS is does not matter.

Incidentally, DOSBox accepts '/' as equivalent to '\'

The scripts are running within DosBox, but the lines that need to be edited are executing the mount command which takes a path on your host system as an argument. This is why the file separators matter and the lines need to be edited.

Originally Posted by The Fifth Horseman

There's a text file somewhere in there IIRC that you can edit to make the change permament. Been a while since I set this up.

Thanks for the tip. I dug a little deeper and it does look like you can edit PREP.COM (lines 98 and 102) and it will make the changes permanent.

[Japo]

OK thanks. Then we may have to fix the archive...

[BranjoHello]

Own Battle.net edition of this one.

Finished Tides of Darkness twice and Beyond the Dark Portal once.

Definitely my favorite WarCraft title.

The pure audio joy when you send about dozen peasants/peons to chop wood...priceless.

[BostonGeorge]

Since when is it for free? I didn't notice that.

Okay, for some reason the file shows as a 7z. Zip or some such. So I go and get 7z from a site to open it. Doesn't do anything to it. Try to Dosbox it. Nothing but a lack of compatability message and a note about it being more than 8 characters long which apparently dosbox does not like long names like Warcraft2 etc.

How can I fix this and be able to play this game?

[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.

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