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First post, by daaboo

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Here i was, thinking how i missed some of the old games i used to play.

Masters of Magic, X-Com ect. i found some .Iso's and downloaded them.

opened them with Daemon tools and PowerIso. installed them, and yup. wont work.

Then i found DosBox. woot ^^. now ive followed the how to and tryed a few things. setting the .iso as a -f cdrom, but that didnt work. i tryed installing the game and running the exe in dosbox. and nope, wont work.

then i tryed installing via Dosbox. worked on the install to an extent but having an iso there was no cdrom drive.

my last attenmpt was to setup daemontools to create a vertual cdrom and setting that virtual cdrom as the dosbox cdrom, that worked untill the requirement of a cdrom drive.

I have extracted the iso. ran from the iso. created a virtual drive. nothing.

So my question is. am i trying to somthing imposable. or am i doing it wrong, can it be done without burning the iso to a cd?

thanks in advance and woot =]

Reply 1 of 9, by Qbix

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check the readme of dosbox. especially the imgmount command.
Btw buy the games instead of downloading them

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Reply 2 of 9, by daaboo

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thanks Qbix. Yea downloading is bad, the 2 games i downloaded, i have the games for, but the cds are damaged, so as i own a copy i didnt feel to bad =]

Reply 3 of 9, by khalbrae

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If your virtual drive in daemon tools is drive f and you want to mount it as a cdrom drive letter d you would type:

mount d f:\ -t cdrom

similar to what the dosbox instructions how if you read the instructions with it.

I'm lucky I still have my Master of Magic and Xcom Cds in good working order (actually, I really want to get the general midi working on xcom, works fine with Master of Magic). Good luck with everything!

Reply 4 of 9, by daaboo

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Yep, thats how i did it <phew> it mentions the cdrom speed is to low and stops the install. aww u have them working ; ; might have to pay a visit to ebay hehe.

Is this the section you was refering to Qbix?

[-l driveletter]
This parameter allows you to specify the drive to boot from.
The default is the A drive, the floppy drive. You can also boot
a hard drive image mounted as master by specifying "-l C"
without the quotes, or the drive as slave by specifying "-l D"

Reply 6 of 9, by MiniMax

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No. Lines 180-190 and 567-615 in the README. Print it out, take it with you on the bus/train and you will have read it all in 20 minutes.

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Reply 7 of 9, by daaboo

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IMGMOUNT
A utility to mount disk images and CD-ROM images in DOSBox

thank you ^^/

Reply 8 of 9, by daaboo

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would this be the way, sorry to be a pain.

imgmount d c:\oldgames\xcom3.iso -t iso

Reply 9 of 9, by rcblanke

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Yep, looks fine. But don't forget that you should also mount a C drive to install your game(s) onto.

If you want to set up multiple games, you may want to take a look at a frontend of your liking.

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