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Entomorph windows 3.11 install issue

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First post, by yukin

Posted on 2026-05-21, 03:06

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I have a legit original copy cd of the game, i tried to install on my windows 3.11 setup. it have a pentium 1 cpu.
I did install the win32s.
During the installation it always crash at a specific file that is named '123'
it says cannot write to '123'
retro or cancel
but it freeze and i need to force reboot.
i downloaded then a cue bin found online and burn it but still same issue.

Reply 1 of 2, by yukin

Posted on 2026-05-21, 04:00

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UPDATE!!!!
I fixed the issue, i leave that short post here FYI.
the file 123.mel that was crashing at the installation was because my cd drive i configured in autoexec.bat and config.sys was named 123. it was making a conflict somehow.
i rename it to 1234 and the installation worked.

Reply 2 of 2, by GrizzlyAdams

Posted on 2026-05-22, 16:37

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That is one side effect of how driver mount points in DOS (and Windows) work. At one point the popular boot disk site used BANANA as the driver identifier, which would cause banana.ani (one of the mouse cursors included in Win9x) to fail copying. Typically everyone used MSCD0001 as it was unlikely to have name collisions, especially given that was the recommended name from Microsoft. You would have similar problems with a file named com1.* or lpt.* (AUX, CON, or any of the other driver mount points). Even today on Windows 11, the driver mount points still take precedence over files with the same basename.

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