I just boot into DOS with holding F8 during boot and boot into comand prompt only hmm.. take my advice for what it can be worth which is surely not that much but I wouldn't be doing it that way What I would do (take my advice etc. etc.) is expand sbbasic & Co. in Win9x at dos box prompt using of …

gidierre wrote: thats' odd when you boot in dos 7 (7.10 iirc) you use a floppy bootdisk or is that via dosstart.bat ? I just boot into DOS with holding F8 during boot and boot into comand prompt only

now wait a minute is maybe there a little misunderstanding here ? ssbasic contains/extracts the files to installation, but it's install.exe who actually.. installs, right ? You extract, go to install.exe location and run it. That's just what I've tried with both ctcmbbs + sbbasic The extracted …

Same thing happens, also tried ctcmbbs....it also just exits out to the dos prompt It just says "installing, one moment please..." for about 0,5 seconds and then exits to the dos prompt. It's odd that this happens on three different pc's + soundcards I'm just so anxious in getting this working since …

Just tried installing the sbbasic.exe stuff in pure dos but the installation just exits out to DOS before it starts, it does this on both my CT2940, CT2290 Is there some trick or magic spell I forgot to do before I started the install?

This must be my first post....been lurking here for some time though :wink: Have been struggling for some time to get two old pc's working for old DOS games. This weekend I finally got a functional DOS setup with lots of free mem, could even launch Privateer which I never have been able to do before …