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First post, by lilmiznawty

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hi all im new on here but i bought a game from ebay called myst any1 heard of it anyway it says on the back of the manual 1993,94,95 and ive got windows xp just wondered how i can install it can any1 help? as im dying to get stuck in and play it 😁

Reply 9 of 31, by eL_PuSHeR

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Before, we attempt to help you further...

WRITE DOWN THE EXACT COMMANDS YOU USED FOR MOUNTING EVERYTHING.

This way it will be easier for us in order to help you.

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Reply 10 of 31, by DosFreak

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"mounted it"? Hopefully not literally.....

Are you trying to use DosBox with this game? MYST isn't a DOS game, you must play the Windows 3.1 version of DosBox (heh...Windows 3.1 ver of DosBox! I WISH!, I meant Windows 3.1 ver of MYST) in Windows. (I'm not gonna mention Myst running under Windows 3.1 under DosBox because it would run hella slow if it ran at all).

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Reply 12 of 31, by eL_PuSHeR

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OK OK - So you mounted the CD using DOSBox, but the line is lacking some parameters. It should read:

mount d d:\ -t cdrom -ioctl -usecd 1

Afterwards, change to the newly mounted D drive

Z:\>D:
D:\>dir

Look for an install.bat / install.exe / setup.bat / setup.exe or the like.

D:\>INSTALL

You will probably get a message saying "This program requires Microsoft Windows" If so, forget about DOSBox for now and keep reading...

I am guessing the response, but here it goes the question anyway....

lilmiznawty - Do you know by chance how to MAKE PARTITIONS?

Mind you, DOSBox is 0NLY intended for running MS-DOS applications ONLY so far, so if Myst is a Windows 3.1 / 3.11 you are out of luck. You need to install the real Windows 3.x in your computer.

Just because you have Windows XP currently, you will need to create a separate MS-DOS FAT16 partition and install MS-DOS 6.22 + Windows 3.11 in there (in this order).

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