Blake Stone 3.0 runs, just not 1.0 or 2.0 for some reason

3.0 ? Are you talking about the versions of the game? My version runs flawlessly but there's no obvious way to see the version.

Top right corner of the title screen.

2.10R works too

Ahah yep I got that version.

Any of the shareware versions which is broken in the same way?

Is there a way to patch your Blake Stone to thelatest version? 😀

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I found some patches here:
http://www.3drealms.com/blake/index.html

Will see if they work. 😀

http://www.patches-scrolls.de/

Try looking here - there's several patches.

Thanks will do...

I just tried the other ones but had no luck.

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The patches on there keep giving me run time errors.

Which runtime errors? Be sure none of the files has a readonly/hidden
or similar attribute set, and set the cycles to 2000 or so.

Ah...

If i try installing the patches using DosBOX rather then MS dos prompt i dont get the runtime errors.

I mount the folder the patch is in to C and mount my Blake Stone folder to D.
Then when i want to patch it asks me to put in the original disk in drive C.
But this sounds unlogical to me, because i just mounted that drive as the directory the patch is in.

Anyone else that might have a clue as to what im doing wrong here? 🙁

Start your time machine, and travel 20 years back in time.

On which drive would your game have been installed back then?

Before you start getting sarcastic, you do realise that i can specify the exact location of my blake stone directory when im using the patch installer?

You can't blame MiniMax for being sarcastic, for a number of reasons:

- It's quite logical that you have to use the patches inside DOSBox (old game, old patches - why should they work in XP?). Oh, and if you're using XP, you do not have a "DOS Prompt", sorry. It's called NTVDM, and it has not very much in common with DOS. Or are you using Win9x? You failed to provide this (possibly important) information until now.
- The patches do not ask for the original disk (I've just tried them out myself)
- When you start the patch, it asks for the location of the game directory ("C:\BSTONE" by default). Just change that path to wherever you have BS installed

I can't update my versions, though. I learned that there are various compiles of BS. You can find out the compile date and version by running "BS_AOG.EXE /VERSION". I've identified three different versions (all v2.0R) so far, and none of them can be updated with the patches on Patches-Scrolls.

Ehm... But i can't understand your problem in the first place. I've installed BS for the very first time (didn't play it back in the day), and it worked instantly, without changing the default DOSBox config (it was very slow, though - didn't really play it, no time). Maybe you have some strange setting in your dosbox.conf? BS seems to autodetect soundcards upon startup (there is no setup prog, after all), that could be a problem. As a test, you should try to start the game with low cycles, like 2000 or 3000. Use a "clean" dosbox.conf.

EDIT: and, btw: 2.00R does work in DOSBox.

wrong, blake stone comes with a sound setup utility, also, mount your C:\ drive as C:| and your D:| as D:| then try the patcher.

No, you are wrong. It's not a sound setup program, it's a program to change the "BLASTER" environment variable in AUTOEXEC.BAT. This is useless in DOSBox. Check your stuff before saying anyone's wrong.

It doesn't matter where exactly the patcher app is located (drive/path). After starting, it will extract some files directly into the game directory (default C:\BSTONE), and start a batchfile afterwards, which then calls a PATCH.RTP. Standard procedure, nothing esoteric.

Da_maniaC wrote:

Before you start getting sarcastic, you do realise that i can specify the exact location of my blake stone directory when im using the patch installer?

People with only 8 posts should think twice before questioning people with +2000 posts. Especially when the original poster is asking for advice and help.

yes, it modifies the sound environment in an original DOS environment, thus it is a sound setup.

DOSbox is not a standard DOS environment.

Franpa: that is still not correct. Being a bit bossy, eh? Changing a line in autoexec doesn't "setup" anything. It's just a help for the game's auto-detection. I know that i'm right, and you're wrong, no matter what you write. You should stop discussing the topic, before you make a complete fool out of yourself.