I have the game star trek a final unity and I tried to get it to work on dos box. When I run it to install it and I get the main screen it says the cd/rom speed on my computer is not detected. Can someone give me some suggestions on how to fix this?
Mount both your CD and a folder for your "C:" drive. At the command prompt change to the CD and run the install. If you still have trouble, follow the 60 second guide linked in Dominus' sig.
It means the game cannot find the CD. Did you follow the steps I wrote exactly ? You shouldn't have to install the game every time, but you will have to use both "mount" lines every time you start the game.
I assume the contents of your CD-ROM are in c:\oldgames\startrek. If you don't have a CD-ROM because you downloaded this game from somewhere, then you're on your own and it is futile to try to help you.
Do you even have the original CD? Or did you download this. The problem seems to be that you are mounting your HD as D. Your CD drive is either D, E or some other letter that is not C. The Correct example should be:
If you don't want to have the CD in your drive all the time, you can make a bin/cue image of it using imgburn, and then mount it in DOSBox using the "imgmount" command. (Copying the files from the CD to a folder is generally not a good idea.)
Often this does not work. Some games have CD checks. It can be a simple as a path statement that points to CD, or it can look for other things like the disk label or some obscure file on the disc that many would not copy. It might just be looking to see if MSCDEX is loaded. This is why the suggestions that you try your real CD.