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First post, by ben3001

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Hi guys and girls...

I used this tutorial for trying to run my settlers from CD.

60 seconds guide to getting your game to run in DOSBox

When i get to stage 5 trying to run the install file i get the following message.

please run this installation with windows 3.1 or higher.

Im using Windows XP Home Edt.

I'd appreciate any comments.

Thanks

Ben

Reply 1 of 7, by IIGS_User

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Seems to need a Windows 3.1 install first before proceeding...

Do you install it from inside DOSBOX?

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Reply 2 of 7, by ben3001

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Thats correct, i am following the tutorial as above, so im unsure if im doing it wrong

Reply 3 of 7, by MiniMax

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What version of the many Settlers game is this? Sure it is a DOS-game?

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Reply 4 of 7, by franpa

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im pretty sure that is the autorun or something that is saying that... the gold edition has a autorun screen in it, but i dunno if there are autorun stuff for win3.1

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Reply 5 of 7, by ADDiCT

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ben3001, maybe the DOS install programm is not called "setup.exe", but "install.exe" or "dossetup.exe" or something like that. I've also seen CD games where the DOS setup was in a subdirectory on the CD (like DOS or DOSDATA).

You could do a "dir <cdrom-drive> >c:\dir.txt" command in a CMD window or inside DOSBox, and post the resulting file here. Or tell us which Settlers version you're using exactly.

Reply 6 of 7, by ben3001

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I think i have made a huge mistake. By looking at the list again i have just relaised that Settlers 3 is not on there.

Thanks for the help though

Reply 7 of 7, by IIGS_User

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Settlers 3 will not run on w31 inside DOSBox? 😵

Klimawandel.