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Old 10-12-2009, 03:05 AM   #11
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DOSBox won't work for this game, it's Windows.
I don't think Windows Vista can run this game.
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Old 10-12-2009, 06:02 AM   #12
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DOSBox won't work for this game, it's Windows

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Or run the game in Dosbox 0.73/W3.1
Some things you should read first:
http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=19982
And all you need to set up W3.x in dosbox:
http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=9405

And because sooner or later peeps gonna switch to Win7: same principle, place the game in your personal folders or use dosbox.
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Old 10-12-2009, 09:44 AM   #13
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DOSBox won't work for this game, it's Windows
Riiight. So I can't possibly be running it in DOSBox right now, can I? And yet I am.
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Old 11-12-2009, 02:27 AM   #14
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My computer is running it in Windows. Not well but running.
And it won't work in DOSBox, therefore I thought that this version is Windows.
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Old 03-08-2010, 10:16 AM   #15
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Uh... I've got an odd problem. So when I download a game .zip file, sometimes I'll cut and paste it to my program files from my desktop which is where I extract it. My problem is one of the files I got from the SimLife .zip, _ONTRES.FON, won't delete. When I try to do something with it it either crashes windows or when I try to delete it it say "Discovering items..." forever and ever... So. Any solutions? Because it's stuck on my desktop and is bothering me.
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Old 03-08-2010, 11:04 AM   #16
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First thing to try: reboot your PC. Should *should* solve the problem.
Next: sometimes security programs/suites will block deleting some specific files, shut them down (if you have any)
Next²: in extremis, boot in safe mode.

Next³: learn to work in folders, not on your desktop.
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sometimes I'll cut and paste it to my program files from my desktop which is where I extract it.
Also:If you're on Vista/Win7 it's usually a bad idea to screw around in %program files%
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Old 03-08-2010, 11:05 AM   #17
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Run CHKDSK, you might have file system errors.
If no errors were found, open up command line, navigate to the directory where the file is and enter del _ontres.fon . This should delete the file on spot.
Booting in Safe Mode might also help.
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Okay, no file system errors and I did that "del _ontres.fon" thing but now it says it's not a valid font file. :<
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Control Panel >> Fonts.
Seems your system installed it as a font for some reason.
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I looked, it's not installed, I used safe mode, tried to delete it there, even in cmd.exe although it says it can't find it :<, it's still there... haunting me. Oh well... Forget 'bout it. I locked it up at the bottom of my screen.
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