Have you tried using DOSBox?

Scorchers' not only a dos game. There's a windows version of it as well. unless you downloaded some abandonware rip which has the dos version only and you never installed from the cd in which you would have mscdex loaded for

I should have said in my first post that I am using DosBox version 072. I did what the instrutions said. I put a line in at the bottom of the config file in DosBox and it reads, (mount D G:\ -t cdrom -ioctl). When I start DosBox it tells me that mscdex is installed. I do have the original CD of the game which has the Dos and windows versions on it. I tried installing it with the windows version but windows xp keeps telling me that it is not a valid win32 application. I also tried to use the mode, run under win95. But it still comes back and tells me the game is not a valid win32 application. What am I doing wrong. I've been trying to get this game to play for months with no luck. They must have some kind of copy protection scheme because the CD has to be in the drive. Like I said before any help to get this stubborn game to work would be great. 😵

Moved to DOSBox Games

Read my 60 Seconds Guide to DOSBox (and don't just read it - follow it too).

If that doesn't help, come back with details on how you mounted your C and D drives, how you did the install, how you configured sound, music etc.