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First post, by jeriktelorian

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I found some classic shareware packs from a long time ago on the Internet Archive; I wanted to explore the games I remember from back in the day. The images seem to load fine when mounted in DosBox-X and are readable; the install scripts work and the shareware files themselves seem to work fine. I'm having an issue using the menu, however.

When I select a game to install and play, I get an error: "Can't find Game Pack CD". The same error occurs if I try to use the automated menu to copy games to the virtual hard disk. I suspect this is a problem with my DosBox configuration, since the data is otherwise perfectly readable; I can manually copy folders from the imagefile to the hard disk to play.

This is not a huge issue but I figure it's a good opportunity to learn more about configuring DosBox and honestly just makes the process of trying the games a bit easier. Any advice would be appreciated.

Links to the relevant shareware packs:
https://archive.org/details/gamepackcd
https://archive.org/details/GAMEPACK2

Reply 1 of 5, by leileilol

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always keep the CD mounted from the same point where you installed it from, and only start GAMEPACK.EXE (in C:\GAMEPACK\) or GAMEPACK.BAT (in C:\). Mount the disc with IMGMOUNT. Mounted discs do not persist after DOSbox sessions.

edit: investigating gamepack2, for some reason dosbox makes it lists more (79) games than it actually has! On PCem there's less games in the menu (the actual 37 as advertised). FWIW some of the missing games referenced were also on Titanium Seal's "80 Mega Hits"

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Reply 2 of 5, by jeriktelorian

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Thanks for your help! I'll take a look at the 80 Mega Hits as well.

I tried doing as you said, but still am having issues. Here's my config file. Maybe I'm doing something wrong here?

[sdl]
autolock=true

[dosbox]
title=DOS
memsize=64

[dos]
ver=6.22
hard drive data rate limit=0
floppy drive data rate limit=0

[cpu]
cputype=pentium-slow
core=normal

[pci]
voodoo=false

[ide, primary]
int13fakeio=true
int13fakev86io=false

[ide, secondary]
int13fakeio=true
int13fakev86io=true
cd-rom spinup time = 0
cd-rom spindown timeout = 0
cd-rom insertion delay = 0

[render]
scaler=none

[autoexec]
mount a -t floppy
mount c c:\DOSBox-X\installs\dos
imgmount d "C:\DOSBox-X\imagefiles\gamepackcd\gamepack.cue" -t iso
c:

Reply 3 of 5, by jeriktelorian

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Hrm. Looks like the Titanium Seal iso works fine (installs and all that), so I wonder if those other two packs are dysfunctional. Seems strange. Thanks for the recommendation of that other pack.

Reply 4 of 5, by leileilol

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Actually my mistake, because the CD lists games from the previously-installed C:\GAMEPACK if you run setup.exe on the second disc. It'll still list games from the other, so to be sure everything works, you have to install everything one by one... A bit misleading in the menu for executing a setup.exe of a CD-ROM and fetching a locally installed games list and appending it to the disc's games list... Thanks Gold Medallion/Titanium Seal

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