First post, by Deadsayer
Has anyone heard of this game? I'm not talking about Soul Calibur or whatever the fighting game is. It's a little known (I was surprised to find HOW little known) DOS game from 1995 I think. From an English company. The only time I've been able to get it working perfectly was on a 486 with windows 3.11 and DOS6 before my mom had that machine upgraded to a 200 mHz 6x86 Pentium equivalent from Cyrex. It hasn't worked right since. Either it would have sound but no music or music but no sound or music but no video. It's driven me nuts over the years trying to get it to work.
The problem I'm having with it in DOSBOX is that since the hard drive in DOSBOX is not actually a hard drive but a mounted folder, the game refuses to install. I guess it can tell that it's not actually a hard drive and when it doesn't detect a hard drive it gives an error message like "It looks like this system doesn't have a hard drive" and just won't install. Is there some way to trick it into thinking there's a hard drive? Has anyone else gotten this game to work in DOSBOX? If all else fails, I do have a 486 or two downstairs I need to sort out and build a working machine out and hopefully I can get it working on that once that's done, but I can't count on that.
I've gotten quite a few games like Dune II, Strife, Wolfenstein 3D and Crusader: No Remorse running in DOSBOX so I know more or less what I'm doing, but this game has been thwarting me for years.
I don't know if my system specs are relevant for this, but I'll post them just in case.
OS: Windows XP Performance
MOBO: Some generic Foxconn thing
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
VGA: ATI Radeon X800
RAM: 2 GB DDR2
AUDIO: Creative Sound Blaster Live!
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.