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First post, by sWARM

Posted on 2006-04-30, 11:07

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well it all startet with that i tryed to play warcraft2, i managed to install it in windows xp and run it.
but when i enter the game the sound is choppy and scroll is way to fast. thats when i found this grate program dosbox.

i can get it to run warcraft 2 but for some reason it dosent finde the warcraft 2 cd. i have no idea how to mount the game and the cd if any one could help me with this i would become really happy

my drives are as follows

c:\war2 warcraft folder
d:\ hard drive
e:\ dvd drive
f:\ warcraft cd drive
g:\ dvd drive

i am running dosbox 0.65

Reply 1 of 9, by Xelasarg

Posted on 2006-04-30, 12:09

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- Run Dosbox
- Type the following:
mount c C:\
mount d F:\ -t cdrom -aspi

this will mount your hard drive as drive C (obviously), and your WC2 cd drive as drive D. I'd recommend this as some older games have serious trouble with recognizing cd drives other than D or E (don't know about WC2, though).

Next you should reinstall WC2 via DOSBox to make sure you've got the right drive letter.

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Reply 2 of 9, by sWARM

Posted on 2006-04-30, 13:04

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tnx for the help, i have installed warcraft 2 thru dosbox but it still cant finde the cd when i mount the cd i get an error that says
MSCDEX: Failure: Path not vaild. dont know if that is the problem.

Reply 3 of 9, by Lofty

Posted on 2006-04-30, 15:58

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Hmm. Try -ioctl instead of -aspi.

Reply 4 of 9, by sWARM

Posted on 2006-04-30, 19:17

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woohoo it works thanks to both of you for the help. game play is a little choppy but that should be fixabel with f7 and f8

Reply 5 of 9, by Lofty

Posted on 2006-04-30, 19:24

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Just for future reference, mounting drive C: as C:\ can be a little risky. It's safer to put dos games in a folder and mount that as C:\, eg. mount C C:\oldgames

Reply 6 of 9, by sWARM

Posted on 2006-04-30, 21:55

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thanks agin 1 small thing is there a way to run dosbox in full screen

Reply 7 of 9, by DosFreak

Posted on 2006-04-30, 22:39

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Read the README included with DosBox

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
Make your games work offline

Reply 8 of 9, by Flipblade

Posted on 2006-06-12, 10:45

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I'm having the same problem with Warcraft II. I've tried following the above advice.

mount c c:\games\wc2
mount d e:\ -t cdrom -ioctl

I then get the message
MSCDEX installed.
Drive D is mounted as CDRom.

Warcraft will run fine but will not find the CD when going to start a single player game.

Any help would be appreciated because my wife will kill me if I don't get this working for her 😀

Reply 9 of 9, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2006-06-12, 10:59

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There is a file war2.ini.
Change cdpath=x to cdpath=d:\

1+1=10

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