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First post, by Ra1der

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Hello
I've downloaded Abuse from www.abandonia.com and they have recommended me dosbox to run the game on Vista. I've downloaded the program but I am still having trouble starting the Abuse.exe file. I checked the intros on dosbox but still having difficulties. If someone could please help me that would be nice.

Ty in advance.

Reply 2 of 4, by MiniMax

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Hmmm. I took a look at this game. As far as I can tell, Abuse is one of those games where the source code and resources for the first 4 share-ware levels (except some sound effects) have been put into the public domain by the original developers and publishers:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030610094112/abu … lic_domain.php3

Someone then went to the effort of using the public domain code and data, and produced various ports of the game named Free Abuse (fRaBs):

http://abuse.zoy.org/
http://www.abuse-game.com/

I downloaded something called v. 2.10 from

http://www.abuse-game.com/index.php?option=co … id=47&Itemid=58

but the Zip-archive is corrupt. The v. 2.00 archive appears to be fine.

Once the v 2.00 archive has been extracted, ABUSE.EXE seems to run fine DOSBox 0.73.

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Reply 3 of 4, by Ra1der

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Actually that's why I am here, I asked them and they told me to ask here. I just don't understand when I mount the hard drive how to start the .exe file. The intro doesn't explain the coding to perform such action.

Reply 4 of 4, by MiniMax

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1) Start DOSBox

2) Enter this command:

mount C "C:\name\of\folder\where\you\unzipped\the\game"

3) Type:

C:
abuse

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