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post #1 of 6
1/7/10 at 11:53am
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Okay, I'm having issues getting this to work. It's a windows 98 machine. When I first bought this game, I played it on a Win98 machine, but I know things may have been different. Anyway...

I put the disc in, explore, click the install file, and I go into the game setup. I get to select my soundcard and it sets up my video requirements...then the system crashes or I get a dialogue box pop up that says the program can't run in a windowed mode. I get the same issues if I go to the MSDos prompt through windows 98.

I would like try starting up in dos, but when I do that it won't let me select my CD rom. It only lets me select a floppy drive (A, which isn't even installed), and my hard drive. Says invalid drive when I try to go to the d prompt (cd drive).

Any tips or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Dell CPx GT500G, Bios A14, Win 98 SE
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post #2 of 6
1/7/10 at 2:41pm
DosBOX?

cheers ...
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post #3 of 6
1/7/10 at 2:44pm
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If I have to resort to DosBox then I will...but it seems redundant when Windows 98 is built on Dos. I'd rather start with figuring out how to get dos to recognize the CD drive when starting in dos.
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post #4 of 6
1/7/10 at 2:52pm
Some good tips here. I don't know if they can be applied in your environment, but it is worth a shot. Scroll down and read through the page.

http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/comp/cd/recogDriver-c.html

cheers ...
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post #5 of 6
1/7/10 at 3:41pm
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Thanks! This sounds like my issue and solution here:

http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/comp/cd/config_DOSMode.htm

I want to do the first thing...

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If you do a lot of DOS gaming or have other work that requires you to access the CD-ROM a great deal from DOS, you are better off loading the DOS CD-ROM driver automatically when you boot up the PC. (Bear in mind the warning above about compatibility.) Windows 95 will use its own version of MSCDEX; you should put the DOS command to load MSCDEX into the "DOSSTART.BAT" file in your [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]Windows[/color][/color] directory. Then, whenever you shut down Windows to DOS ("Restart in MS-DOS mode") MSCDEX will be automatically run and you will have access to your CD-ROM drive. The only disadvantage with this is possible slightly reduced performance from using the DOS-based CD-ROM driver. (I personally don't notice any degradation from this setup.) It also takes a bit more conventional memory.
How do I put the mscdex command in the dosstart file? Do I just open the mscdex file, copy the contents, then open the dosstart file and paste it all to the end of that?
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post #6 of 6
1/7/10 at 4:45pm
no its a command

look at http://www.computerhope.com/ac.htm , it talks about how the line in dosstart.bat should look (in this case it is surving the same purpose as autoexec.bat), and the config.sys probably should already have a define for the CD-ROM, and what you put after /D: in dosstart.bat needs to match whats in config.sys
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