Re: Installing Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan from CD-ROM to Hard Drive

Posted on 2011-10-16, 01:44

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by CatherineMcClarey

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(PS for anyone else who bought a CD-ROM of T&T from Flying Buffalo: ) The copy/paste procedure RipSaw8080 recommended & I implemented was done within Windows (just have the contents of the CD-ROM open in 1 window, and an empty TNT folder within whichever folder you keep your DOS games in, in a …

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Re: Installing Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan from CD-ROM to Hard Drive

Posted on 2011-10-16, 01:35

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by CatherineMcClarey

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Well, RipSaw8080, the Flying Buffalo staff didn't get back to me before the weekend, so I finally did as you had originally suggested and just copy/pasted all the 1990 files from the T&T CD-ROM into a TNT folder (which the vintage installer program had succeeded in creating before it hung) within my …

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Re: Installing Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan from CD-ROM to Hard Drive

Posted on 2011-10-14, 19:16

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by CatherineMcClarey

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Perhaps you're right, VileRancour; since my "day job" is in debt collection, I get way too much "prickly" from debtors (and occasionally from clients!) at work, so I'm perhaps a bit quick to perceive a less-than-gracious attitude when such was not intended. You may or may not also be right about the …

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Re: Installing Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan from CD-ROM to Hard Drive

Posted on 2011-10-14, 18:25

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by CatherineMcClarey

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I'm sorry that you, WD, as well as RipSaw8080 seem to insist on an "either/or", single-provider method of seeking help with installing DOSBox games. I truly do not see why a "both/and" approach is not equally valid, where it is possible. As previously stated, I simply have not had the time to …

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Re: Installing Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan from CD-ROM to Hard Drive

Posted on 2011-10-14, 17:02

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by CatherineMcClarey

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Who said anything about "only?" This forum is one source of advice on getting old DOS games to run; the original publishers/distributors, in those cases where they are still supporting their old games, is another. I see no problem with seeking advice from both sources, where both sources are …

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Re: Installing Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan from CD-ROM to Hard Drive

Posted on 2011-10-14, 15:05

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by CatherineMcClarey

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I described what I had done before seeing your advice. As to just copying the files per your other suggestion, if that is what Flying Buffalo also advises me to do, then I will do it. I regret that my not following your original suggestion immediately appears to have upset you. I'm not in a huge …

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Re: Installing Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan from CD-ROM to Hard Drive

Posted on 2011-10-14, 14:00

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by CatherineMcClarey

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Yes, I used: mount a e:\ -t floppy right after mounting my DOSGAMES directory as the C: drive within DOSBox. I don't believe I specified the "make tnt cd" directory, because of the spaces within the directory name. However, when I changed to A: within DOSBox and then entered DIR, it showed a version …

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Re: Installing Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan from CD-ROM to Hard Drive

Posted on 2011-10-14, 12:05

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by CatherineMcClarey

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I just tried mounting the CD-ROM drive within DOSBox as a virtual A: drive. Apparently the installer had created a TNT folder within my DOSGAMES directory when I first tried running it yesterday. However, just mounting the CD-ROM drive as a virtual A: drive within DOSBox wasn't enough to "fool" the …

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Re: Installing Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan from CD-ROM to Hard Drive

Posted on 2011-10-14, 11:32

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by CatherineMcClarey

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Sorry about not starting this thread in the right forum to start with! (It's the first time I've started a totally new thread here.) Ripsaw8080, I might try your suggestion. I was also wondering if, since the 1990 installation program is looking for a floppy drive, if mounting the CD-ROM drive as a …

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Re: Installing Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan from CD-ROM to Hard Drive

Posted on 2011-10-14, 02:55

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by CatherineMcClarey

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As requested, the directory listing for the root directory on the CD-ROM: Volume in drive E is Tunnels & Trolls Volume Serial Number is B86C-CF85 Directory of E:\ 02/04/2011 12:25 PM Make TNT CD 0 File(s) 0 bytes 1 Dir(s) 0 bytes free Upon opening the "Make TNT CD" directory, one gets a list of 73 …

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Installing Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan from CD-ROM to Hard Drive

Posted on 2011-10-13, 20:53

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by CatherineMcClarey

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I recently purchased a CD-ROM copy of Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan from Flying Buffalo (to whom the rights apparently reverted when New World Computing was acquired by 3D0). I kept my original manual, map, cluebook & installation sheet from my old floppy disk copy, but am having difficulty …

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Re: Curse of the Azure Bonds -- Mulmaster Beholder Corps battle?

Posted on 2011-06-09, 21:26

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by CatherineMcClarey

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I'm currently doing a "Let's Play" of COTAB on YouTube, and I just ran into the victory-screen bug for the Mulmaster Beholder Corps battle again -- and this time it was on the same computer where I had completed this battle before without the bug showing up! :depressed: Perhaps the bug isn't …

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Re: Using 3rd party recording programs

Posted on 2011-05-05, 11:47

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by CatherineMcClarey

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I wanted to do a Let's Play for YouTube (of SSI's Curse of the Azure Bonds ) with narration, and hadn't yet figured out how to smoosh together a separate narration track (from Windows Sound Recorder) with DOSBox's native video capture. (My teen daughter, who posts occasional music lyrics videos on …

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Re: DOSBox 0.73, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Graphics/Audio Help

Posted on 2011-04-19, 23:53

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by CatherineMcClarey

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My teenage daughter (who doesn't know much about DOSBox video capture, but who does have experience with Windows Movie Maker) took one look at the .AVI extension on my video capture file, and informed me that I needed to convert it to a .WMV file in order to be able to view it in Windows Media …

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Re: DOSBox 0.73, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Graphics/Audio Help

Posted on 2011-04-19, 23:02

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by CatherineMcClarey

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I went back to the DOSBox Wiki article on video capture, and decided to download one of the alternative media players recommended there (I chose VideoLAN). The COTAB intro/demo test video capture I had done ran beautifully under VideoLAN, so I think I'm all set for now. :cool: It still doesn't run …

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Re: DOSBox 0.73, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Graphics/Audio Help

Posted on 2011-04-19, 17:24

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by CatherineMcClarey

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I didn't need "run as administrator" to install DOSBox 0.74, of course, just to install the video codec (from the Video folder of the Extras folder when opening the DOSBox 0.74 folder from the Programs list of the Start menu). That's how I got to the point where the square "album cover" title screen …

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Re: DOSBox 0.73, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Graphics/Audio Help

Posted on 2011-04-19, 12:30

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by CatherineMcClarey

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Why 0.73 until now? Because it worked (at least for everything but video capture). I just installed DOSBox 0.74 this morning, and got the same error messages as before. Then I tried "Run as administrator," didn't get error messages this time, and am at least getting some graphics now (a square " …

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Re: DOSBox 0.73, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Graphics/Audio Help

Posted on 2011-04-19, 11:22

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by CatherineMcClarey

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I was using the built-in video capture in DOSBox 0.73, but wasn't looking at the instructions in the DOSBox Wiki when I did -- so I didn't "install movie codec" before attempting to view the captured video. I just attempted to "install movie codec" this morning, and got this message: "An error …

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Re: DOSBox 0.73, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Graphics/Audio Help

Posted on 2011-04-18, 22:26

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by CatherineMcClarey

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Someone posted a YouTube video of the intro music to COTAB with PC speaker sound, and it's pretty painful to listen to, so Tandy sound with no music is actually an improvement. (One can always put a shortcut on the desktop to the YouTube video of the C64 intro to COTAB (or POR, for that matter -- …

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Re: Secret of the Silver Blades: Map Error in SSI's Clue Book

Posted on 2011-02-15, 20:47

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by CatherineMcClarey

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I'm sure my ranger has a spare inventory slot for an extra sword, so I can certainly try doing that. Once he has both swords in his inventory, I could try having him equip each sword & see which one he can do more damage with -- which would be another way of determining the Long Sword vs. Giants' + …

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