Sounds like you haven't mounted a folder as your virtual C drive in DOSbox. You have to either type or add to the autoexec section of the DOSbox config file something like the following:

mount C d:\game

Where d:\game is the drive and path of the game folder (or some parent of it if you know DOS and want to get fancy). This will make the virtual C: drive in DOSbox point to the d:\game folder on your real hard drive.

Once you've got it set up correctly, you should be able to type the following DOS commands (in order):
c:
dir

...and then you should see a listing of files that correspond to those in your game folder.

Thank you so much!Now I can get the game to run (...maybe someone should update the newbie faq 😉 ),but the game ( Dark Seed) run the intro then gives me a garbage screen ...
Any suggestions?
Thx
Slade

Maybe someone should read the README or the INTRO that is written out when DOSBox loads...

...sorry ,I didn't mean to sound sarcastic. I did find the newbie faq more helpful than the dosbox info ,but imho it lacks to say that directories'names won't always be recognized by dosbox as they are,hence the dir command to check their *true* name...

Any suggestions on how to run dark seed? 🙄

Thx
Slade