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First post, by Pseudo

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HI,
I'm trying to play Goblins 3 on my computer. I have the game on floppys (5 disks)

I tried some things but it did'nt work...

Can someone help me with the commands?
Do I need to install the game with DosBox?
Or copy the files of the floppys to a folder on my hardrive before I run DosBox?

Thanks in advance.

Reply 1 of 4, by MiniMax

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Yes, you should install it from inside DOSBox.

You should be able to use the 60 seconds guide in my signature.

Just remember to not mount your CD-drive as drive D, but your diskette drive as drive A, e.g.

Z:\> mount A A: -t floppy

And every time you change diskettes, use CTRL-F4 to let DOSBox know that a new diskette has been inserted.

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Reply 2 of 4, by Pseudo

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thank you.

I'm able to launch to install but it doesn't work: The install program says it can't find the c:/ drive (to install c:/coktel/gob3).

It then gives me a list of drives to choose from (c: to z:) but nothing works...

Any suggestions?

Thanks again.

Reply 3 of 4, by dh4rm4

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make sure you've mounted a "c" drive for games to install into.

ie.

1. Make a folder on C drive in Windows XP etc - like say, C:\Dosprog

2. run DosBox

3. In dosbox type mount c c:\Dosprog

Reply 4 of 4, by Pseudo

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Thanks to both of you!

It works great!!!

😁