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First post, by Reejoc

Posted on 2005-05-28, 22:41

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I've got MC running at a respectable speed but the games keeps quitting to dos at random times.

According to this thread: magic carpet toooooooo slow! the problem could be caused by a form of cd protection, which checks to see if you're running from the cd or not and quits if not. Since DOSbox treats a cd like a hard disk, I can't see a way around this.

Has anyone else got MC running without random crashes? I'm running Windows 2000 and DOSbox 0.63

Reply 1 of 6, by MiniMax

Posted on 2005-05-29, 12:41

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Please post details on how you have mounted the drives for MC in DOSBox.

(and by details, I mean the exact commands you used!)

Reply 2 of 6, by Reejoc

Posted on 2005-06-04, 22:25

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I installed DOSbox 0.63 under Windows 2000 SP4.

I can run the game either from the hard disk or the CD, and the same problem occurs. This is what I type in to run the game:

mount d f:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl

cd carpet

carpet.exe

The game successfully creates setup directories and loads. The sound works fine. The game was very slow even with max cycles (ctrl F12) but I replaced the DOS4GW file with DOS32A (a replacement DOS extender) and now it runs fine. This is not the cause of the problem because it was the same before I started using DOS32A.

However after a few minutes of play the game quits to dos prompt. Very frustrating since MC is my favourite classic game.

Reply 3 of 6, by HunterZ

Posted on 2005-06-04, 23:25

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Could it be a copy-protection issue?

Reply 4 of 6, by Reejoc

Posted on 2005-06-04, 23:34

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HunterZ wrote:
Could it be a copy-protection issue?

Yes - see thread title 😜

If so, has anyone found a way around it? Is there a way of mounting the cd drvie differently?

Reply 5 of 6, by MiniMax

Posted on 2005-06-05, 09:29

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Re: mounting

You could try adding a -label XXXXX, where XXXXX is the real volume label of the CD.

Reply 6 of 6, by Reejoc

Posted on 2005-06-05, 12:53

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I have the game working now, by using a copy from some abandonware site rather than my own CD.

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