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Installing games with DOSBox

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First post, by Guest

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One game in particular, actually. Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb. I installed it off the CD-ROM when I got it, and it worked pretty well. Unfortunately, that was about eight years ago, and sometime in between I managed to lose the CD-ROM. I think I can still use the diskettes, though, so that's not a problem.

This is the problem.

When I type "install", it brings up a list of the drives I have mounted, like so:

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I've gone through the guides, at least all the ones I could find, and searched the forums a couple of times ('swhere I found most of the guides, heh.) I'm pretty sure this is not supposed to happen. Can anyone tell me what's going on?

Reply 1 of 5, by wd

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Look at the size of INSTALL.EXE
Is it zero bytes in your host OS, too?

Reply 2 of 5, by h-a-l-9000

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If you're in luck, this works:

Rename FILE0000.CHK to install.exe and try again.

Reply 3 of 5, by Guest

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That's /strange/. How on earth can a file be zero bytes?

But yes, it's zero bytes in Windows XP too.

Reply 4 of 5, by h-a-l-9000

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The FAT or file entry got corrupted and a repair utility wrote the lost clusters to file0000.chk back in 1998. If you are in luck, the file0000.chk contains the program that was in install.exe before.

Reply 5 of 5, by Guest

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...Apparently I am not in luck. SNAP.

(it keeps telling me 'program failed to run, abort/retry/fail', and I may not know much but I know what that means, especially the sixth time it pops up.)

Ah well. Thanks anyway!

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