First post, by FeedingDragon
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2 games for sure, and 1 suspected will not install in DOSBox because of a Date/Time mismatch error. I had honestly thought the disks were bad in these cases. But the following games don't install correctly in DOSBox because the archive thinks that the date/time don't match on an archive continuation. Archon Ultra, comes on two disks. The install program basically just unpacks an ARJ archive. The archon.pkg file is split between Data1.arj on the first disk and Data2.arj on the second disk. In DOSBox, when I insert the second disk and it starts to continue, it says that the date & time of the second archon.pkg file is different, and cancels that file, going on to the next one. This makes the archon.pkj file smaller than it should be, and the game won't play. This was the 3rd time I had a problem, and the first time I noticed exactly what was going on. The error didn't make sense.... A corrupted file, yes, but an incorrect date/time stamp??? I went back to the other 2 that failed (Abandoned Places, and Metal & Lace.) Couldn't find M&L, so I don't know if it had the same problem. But AP seems to have it. They both install fine if I do it in a command prompt window (and then they play fine in DOSBox.) But in DOSBox, the unpacking program claims that the Date/Time stamp is bad or wrong, and chokes on the install. I suspect that M&L has the same problem.
I seem to recall reading a thread concerning this, but cannot find it now. Is this a known problem? Is it something that will be worked on? Is there already a fix I need to go find?
Feeding Dragon