Works fine here...
Can you supply some more info please? Like DOSBox version, game version(CD-Talkie or Floppy), and the exact mount commands? Also, did you install the game within DOSBOX?

I installed the game using windows (XP). It's the CD-rom talkie version - Ran commands:

1mount C C:\Westwood
2mount g "D:\" -t cdrom -ioctl
3cd HOFCD
4HOFCD

Using Doxbox 0.72, I think.

install it within dosbox

Just tried that - same problem. Installs fine apparantly, but after installing typing "hofcd" just brings up some loading, no sound device found (in different languages) and then the error.

Yes, I figured you'll say that after I tried reproducing the error without success(I also tried installing from windows).

But then I noticed your CD mount command... It doesn't seem quite right, so I tried starting the game with no CD mounted and it gave me the same error as you, thus, I'm guessing you didn't mount the CD correctly.

Note that if your physical CD-Rom drive is 'G' then your mount command should be:

1mount d g:\ -t cdrom

And not the other way around like you wrote.

[edit]
Actually, now that I think of it, if you installed from within DOSBox, it probably means your mount command is OK 😵

It's working now.. For some reason.. I did a re-install without using the -iotcl parameters and it just worked fine. Thanks for the help!

OK< I need help with the same issue, running Kyranida II the talkie CD version and loading with DOsBox, so far i cant get it to finish loading. I entered the following commands:

mount C C:\Westwood
mount e d:\ -t cdrom -ioctl
and it loaded fine

then when i tried to enter cd HOFCD
it said it could not switch to that

I just could not get it past that point, can anyone help me? I have gotten this game to run fine with the voice running in the past but am stumped, i really dont understand DOSbox that much so any help will be much appreciated.

i put e in the second command line as my CDDVD is in e drive

type "c:"
before the cd hof, and maybe use dir to show the actual content of the directory.

oh my, hi wd, and thanks so much for the fast reply i have gotten very frustrated trying to make this work..ok, so put c:cd hof .....
i do have the cd installed on my compy now, in the c:Westwood\hofcd\hofcd.exe locatoin
how would i use dir for pointing to this?

i was trying to get the cd itself to run, but as you can see i am a noob at this wonderful emulator thanks for any help and thanks again for the nice reply

OK i tried c:cd HOFCD and got an illegal command
I then tried c: WESTWOOD\HOFCD and got into that directory, so i got that far

ok, then i typed hofcd and it WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hoooray!!! thanks so much

it is working perfectly wth full sound now, thanks again for making such a wonderful emulator for us all much appreciated. 😀

Chris
Game Research and Development
http://chris-today.blogspot.com/
http://www.christophergerlach.com

The readme has a list of useful key combinations, something like alt-enter
is explained there as well.

thanks again wd, i found the key instructions right where you suggested, and tried to edit my post before you saw it 😀 thanks again, great great program, what a gift to us older game students 😀 thanks so muich

for those getting this error the problem may be that you have more than one CD drive (physical or virtual) mounted in dosbox. HOFCD does not remember which drive you installed it from and will check the first CD drive letter for it's CD contents.

so for instance, if you a CD drive mounted as "D:\" and another as "E:\" make sure that "D:\" is the one containing the HOFCD data.