The new .60 version of DOSBox kicks ass. It can now run the vast majority of my old DOS games. I am having a problem with warcraft though. The game keeps checking for the CD, and even though I have mounted the cd drive as D:, the game will not recognize it.
Does anyone have a no-cd crack for the original warcraft, or does anyone know how to get games to recognize the CD drive properly?
Thanks
-DML1001
mount d d:\ -t cdrom
and see in the readme for enabling even better support
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I just tried this, but warcraft is still not recognizing the CD. I can hear the drive spin up when the game checks it now, but it is still rejected. Is there anything else I can try that might help?
I even tried installing the game off the CD entirely within dosbox, so I know that the cd is mounted correctly.
Sure the CD is readable otherwise? (Not scratched or dirty or anything?)
Yes, I installed the game off the CD (I did a normal install, where videos are left on the CD), and the video plays correctly when I start up the game, so it can clearly read off of the CD.
I tried patching the game, but if you do that, it changes the copy protection scheme and it starts asking for words from the warcraft manual that I must have thrown out about 8 years ago 🙁
i have a List of all words @ home.
i will post it Sunday (if that would be ok ... Mods ?)
DML1001: YOU THREW OUT YOUR WARCRAFT MANUAL 😠. All the Warcraft games had the best manuals (pictures + storyline wise).
Any other game I`d understand. But Warcraft. Nup. Thats just plain wrong.
Two stones, two crosses, the rest is just icing. - 7th Guest
Right... I got the game back in 1995, when I was 12. My dad trashed all my game manuals and boxes in 1997, because I had about 200 of them and he complained that they were taking up too much space...
I've built up quite a collection of game boxes & related stuff over my 15-20 years of PC gaming as well. The last time I moved (about 3-4 months ago) I finally broke down and burned a lot of my game boxes. I saved all of the stuff inside the boxes though (put them in a small cardboard box) as well as some of the sleeves (e.g. to Sierra games) and a few whole boxes (collapsed to save on space though). Now they all take up only 1 or 2 small cardboard boxes instead of 3 or 4 huge ones 😉
wrote:I've built up quite a collection of game boxes & related stuff over my 15-20 years of PC gaming as well. The last time I moved (about 3-4 months ago) I finally broke down and burned a lot of my game boxes. I saved all of the stuff inside the boxes though (put them in a small cardboard box) as well as some of the sleeves (e.g. to Sierra games) and a few whole boxes (collapsed to save on space though). Now they all take up only 1 or 2 small cardboard boxes instead of 3 or 4 huge ones 😉
whaaaattt 😮 you burn boxes ! You will go to hell for that. 😉
My Game Boxes are my sanctuary.
DML1001, check the PM I sent you..
i have the exact same problem cant get my warcraft cd emulated in dosbox
Maybe try reinstalling -- this time installing the whole thing? I've got dosbox running under Linux. I did a full install of Warcraft. It runs fine, and doesn't even look for the CD.
Cheers!
