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[dosraider]

Originally Posted by Scatty

That I did, which is why I mentioned it.

Same hre with 0.72, one of the first games I completed in 0.72, never went back to the game again, so I can't state 0.73 works, contrary to you.
Good to know that the game works fine in 0.73 also.

Originally Posted by Krause

Where's the problem?

Without any details, mount lines, install choices; how you exactly launch the game it's gonna be hard to help you ......

[Krause]

God, let's see if I can help you much with details... I've very little experience with Dosbox.

I downloaded here:
[EDITED]

Found patch here:
http://www.patches-scrolls.de/lands_of_lore.php

When trying to launch the game from mounting:

mount c: c:\users\Tuuli\oldgames\LOLCD\
lolcd

Please insert the LOL CD Disk into drive B.
Press any key to try again or Q to quit trying.

So, being clever as I am (/cough), I simply mounted:

mount b: c:\users\Tuuli\oldgames\LOLCD\
lolcd

which, surprisingly, started up the game. Before this I patched in DOSbox (mounting c: ), and ran the setup setting soundblaster as my soundcard. The game starts up fine. Everything works. Then, after selecting the character, the screen flashes and returns to DOS:

0 error with FILEDATA.FDT (2) - exiting

- - -

This, ultimately, is the same occurance as what happened with the diskett version before patching. Most likely it is, once again, a problem with the game file. Have anyone tried how the version downloaded from Abandonia works with .74 or .72? Would trying this help, or is there something else you'd propose before I try this out?

I do have the diskett version, without any voiceacting, working already, but I would prefer this version.

Also, there is little more details I can give you without instructions what details you would actually need, and how to best explain them. Using Windows Vista (sadly).

[dosraider]

Originally Posted by Krause

When trying to launch the game from mounting:

mount c: c:\users\Tuuli\oldgames\LOLCD\
lolcd

Try:
mount c: c:\users\Tuuli\oldgames\
c:
cd lolcd
lolcd


If it's gonna work, no idea, and I don't intend to download some obscure cracked CD version of the game.

Maybe you should ask where you downed the game?

BTW, The mods gonna love that link .... (NOT)

[EDit]
BTW, before that link was deleted I saw that they state that you must run their game with a *.bat file, is lolcd.* a bat file?
Do a dir/w whilst in dosbox on c:\lolcd\ prompt or check the files in windows.

[Krause]

Oh, sorry, I didn't think it was against forum rules to offer the link. I apologize.

I don't see what exactly is different in your way of opening the game folder. I just mounted the game one step further, instead of going to lolcd manually.

But, yeah, thanks for the effort. I'll try a couple of combinations still, and if (most likely not) it's not going to help, I'll just settle with the floppy disk version.


krausedit\\ No, it's LOLCD.EXE. I'll see if messing with the file would work.

moredit\\ Damn, vista's too smart for me. I can't use the old trick of just renaming .exe to .bat. That sometimes actually worked. Any ideas how to make the .exe file into .bat, or whatever?

[dosraider]

Originally Posted by Krause

I don't see what exactly is different in your way of opening the game folder. I just mounted the game one step further, instead of going to lolcd manually.

Then you're never in your life worked on a real Dos PC my friend.

You also state you 'patched' their game, that's usually a bad idea with cracked games.
Probably better delete that lolcd folder and start over from scratch.
Don't mess with lolcd.exe the file, look for a *.bat file, as I told you.

[Krause]

Working and working - I don't know how much 'work' could an eight-year-old do with a dos PC, but we sure enough had one when I was a child. Two, actually, if I remember correctly. It took me a few minutes to recall the 'cd' command for example, though. It's been a while.

And, a good thing I made a copy of the folder before patching. On with the experiments.

Cheers.


Krausedit\\ Oh, okay! Problem solved! Sorry for the trouble, the main problem eventually was me not noticing it was not lolcd.bat, but lands.bat that I needed to start the game with. Feeling a bit stupid now.

Thank you loads now, and sorry to take your time.

[dosraider]

Originally Posted by Krause

Thank you loads now, and sorry to take your time.

You're welcome, no problemo.
Glad you got it running, enjoy.

[Scatty]

Also feel free to ask here if you have any more questions about or problems with the game, here you'll for sure get help

Originally Posted by Scatty

Also feel free to ask here if you have any more questions about or problems with the game, here you'll for sure get help

Can anyone explain how to use the hex editor for saved game files to increase a character's attributes? I'm a novice and I don't really understand offset values, etc that have been referenced in other sites, but through trial and error I managed to find out how to increase the fighter/rogue/mage levels. However, this doesn't seem to alter the character's total hit/mage points. Do these edits have to be done at the very beginning of the game, or can they be made at later levels?
Thanks for any suggestions.

[_r.u.s.s.]

man, lands of lore is perfectly balanced. don't use cheats, you'll ruin the whole gameplay