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Old 25-09-2005, 12:23 PM   #1
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Hi

I followed the instructions:
opened dosbox
mounted heroes directory as a cdrom drive with the following command
"mount e -t cdrom e:\heroes"
accessed the cdrom drive and installed the game
installation completed successfully
then i typed "heroes" like it said to play to game and i got a message saying:
"can't open file:"
that's it, not saying which file and i can't play the game
i have win xp pro and dosbox 0.63 (the latest)

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Old 25-09-2005, 01:28 PM   #2
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Did you navigate to the installed directory rather than the CD drive?
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yes i did
i mounted one of my hard drives and installed heroes on it
and then tried to run the game from the installed directory
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ok, type "dir /w" without quotes to see what's in the folder - if there's a bat or an exe try running that; if there's a setup, setsound or install you might need to configure the sound first - not sure, haven't run Heroes myself.
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Old 25-09-2005, 03:51 PM   #5
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nope
there isn't any other executable file (including bat and all others) except the "heroes.exe"
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It gives you a missing file error when you run the exe? What other files are in the Heroes folder?
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it doesn't tell me of a missing file.
it only says "can't open file:"
in the heroes folder there are 2 files and 3 directories:
files: heroes.exe, heroes.cfg
directories: data, games, maps
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Old 25-09-2005, 07:16 PM   #8
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why do you need to run heroes in DOSbox??? it's a windows game.

Shouldnt' they work under XP? i mean they work on win 2000.
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i'm talking about the first heroes game
otherwise i wouldn't be posting on this site
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@gregor The first one is a DOS game.

Did you download it from here? I d/led the archive today and all you need to do is extract the zip contents, then navigate to it in DOSBox. The root folder will contain ANIM, DATA, GAMES, MAPS folders, plus heroes.cfg, heroes.exe, install.bat, install.pif, readme.txt, setup.exe and setup.pif - run setup to set the sound, then heroes.exe to play.

EDIT: You don't need to mount anything as a CD drive for this, the archive extracts an installed game.
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