I have the game working now, by using a copy from some abandonware site rather than my own CD.

HunterZ wrote: Could it be a copy-protection issue? Yes - see thread title 😜 If so, has anyone found a way around it? Is there a way of mounting the cd drvie differently?

I installed DOSbox 0.63 under Windows 2000 SP4. I can run the game either from the hard disk or the CD, and the same problem occurs. This is what I type in to run the game: mount d f:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl d: cd carpet carpet.exe The game successfully creates setup directories and loads. The …

I've got MC running at a respectable speed but the games keeps quitting to dos at random times. According to this thread: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=7514 the problem could be caused by a form of cd protection, which checks to see if you're running from the cd or not and quits if not. …