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I have a problem. (By the way, this is legend789, I'm using guest because when I try to go here logued in, I get an error telling me that this place doesn't exist o.o)

Anyways, when I try to run INSTALL, after the configure the from- and to- folders, the Install tells me to insert disc 1 and press Enter. I press Enter but it does nothing.

I've tried:
1) Installing it from windows using the from- as "C:\MicroP~1\Dragon~1" and to- as "C:\MPS\Dragon".
2) Using DOSBox to mount "C:\MicroP~1\Dragon~1" as "A:\" and having Drive as "A:" and to- as "C:\MPS\Dragon".

Neither work.

Please someone know what's wrong? Thanks in advance

[Dave]

You are into validating group... :blink:
That should be the problem
I'll ask Admins, probably tomorrow they'll solve your problem.

[Frodo]

Originally posted by Guest_legend789_* @ Sep 26 2007, 11:27 PM

Anyways, when I try to run INSTALL, after the configure the from- and to- folders, the Install tells me to insert disc 1 and press Enter. I press Enter but it does nothing.

I've tried:
1) Installing it from windows using the from- as "C:\MicroP~1\Dragon~1" and to- as "C:\MPS\Dragon".
2) Using DOSBox to mount "C:\MicroP~1\Dragon~1" as "A:\" and having Drive as "A:" and to- as "C:\MPS\Dragon".

You can't install this game to your hard drive, but you CAN set the sound options.
After you unzip the folder, click on 'Install', then 'Reconfigure Hardware Options'. This lets you set up the sound.
Now use 'Dragon' to start the game.

[The Fifth Horseman]

By the way, this is legend789, I'm using guest because when I try to go here logued in, I get an error telling me that this place doesn't exist o.o[/b]

Your account has not been activated. Did you get the activation e-mail?

BTW: I've activated it manually now.

[legend789]

Originally posted by Frodo @ Sep 26 2007, 06:46 PM

You can't install this game to your hard drive, but you CAN set the sound options.
After you unzip the folder, click on 'Install', then 'Reconfigure Hardware Options'. This lets you set up the sound.
Now use 'Dragon' to start the game.

Wow = D That worked wonders. I can't believe I missed that Thanks so much Frodo

Originally posted by David86 @ Sep 26 2007, 05:31 PM

You are into validating group...
That should be the problem
I'll ask Admins, probably tomorrow they'll solve your problem.

Thanks David86. As you can see I can log in now = ]

Originally posted by the_fifth_horseman @ Sep 27 2007, 12:42 AM

Your account has not been activated. Did you get the activation e-mail?

BTW: I've activated it manually now.

Thanks the_fifth_horseman = ] I probably did get it and it was in my bulk folder or something o.o But thanks for manually activating it = ]

Edit: I do have 1 very minor problem, which I don't think will affect the game, but I'll report it to be safe.

When I try to view the Intro I get the error message:

(Taking advantage of extra memory...)

run-time error R6005
-not enough memory on exec

And return to DOSBOX Prompt. Is it anything dangerous? Or should I just ignore it.

Otherwise, the game runs perfectly and smoothly (Though I had to use overlay rendering = ] But that's not a problem at all.)

[The Fifth Horseman]

Use LOADFIX before running the intro.

[legend789]

Originally posted by the_fifth_horseman @ Sep 28 2007, 03:25 AM

Use LOADFIX before running the intro.

Thanks for helping again the_fifth_horseman = ]

Actually. I did look up the problem in Google, which got me a website, (actually a webpage on Microsoft.com) which talked about Anti-Viruses causing the problem.

That reminded me of the TSRs in DOS, so I tried loadfixing but I couldn't remember, however, due to never actually using it, so I tried to use D-Fend to do it for me. Unfortunately, I ran into a problem when I tried to loadfix Dragon.bat, so I figured I can't loadfix a .bat file.

So I manually tried, "loadfix mainmenu.exe -p".

Unfortunately, no matter what value I type into loadfix, it results in the same error when I go to Intro, unless it's 256 or higher, 256 (down to 132) gives me the same error as loading from Windows does, 512 doesn't load at all, 1024 loads without music. I read that loadfix -10 is the normally suggested value, but even that didn't work. I'm probably using the wrong values though. I don't normally even touch loadfix.

Like I said though. If it's not a huge problem later on in the game, I don't mind it too much, but it would be nice to watch the intro. Thanks again the_fifth_horseman

[_r.u.s.s.]

anybody knows what does that "73766,347" mean?

i googled up a bit and it seems it also appeard in other Microprose games, like "Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender-Bender", as well

[Luchsen]

69,105

[_r.u.s.s.]

haha, didn't know about this but 347 isn't 73766 in hexadec or vice versa

do you think there is some kind of other relation between the numbers, or that they were just mocking infocom?