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TES: Daggerfall DOSbox; Ubuntu.

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First post, by Kvnt

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First of all, I've been looking through the forums here for quite a while,
and haven't been able to find any thread on the topic.
As you've probably realised by now, I'm having trouble running TES: Daggerfall on DOSbox under Ubuntu.
I downloaded it from Bethesda (zip file), and used their instructions.
Also, I tried reinstalling it several times to see if I did something wrong - I didn't. Anyway, I'm gonna copy the info from my thread on GameSpot

Alright folks, Now I'm a sucker for oldschool DOS games; so I've been all over the net for two days trying to get this to work, […]
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Alright folks,
Now I'm a sucker for oldschool DOS games; so I've been all over the net for two days trying to get this to work, but I simply couldn't find any solutions.
I guess I'll have to throw some information here.
TES: Daggerfall, legit download from Bethesda.
Install and update on DOSbox 0.73 Ubuntu 9.10 worked mighty fine,
I can mount the dagger and dfcd dir, but when I run the game it gives me

'CauseWay error 01 : Unable to resize program memory block
Please press (r)eboot or (c)ontinue'

When I press 'c':

**** NULL assignment detected.

I did follow the instructions,
now one thing I noticed, on the CauseWay error it scanned for

available file handles - 200
mouse - found
windows - not present
available memory - whatever that was

^as it shows, windows wasn't found, so in my despair I thought alright. I'll install DOSbox on Wine instead and see how that works.
Well it didn't like that at all.
Simply won't accept the install directory.

Now I got a few replies as one can see,
one saying it seems it can't do the -freesize 1000 (which is neccesary for the game to run?) and a few saying they never got it to work, they gave up. So I hope someone can help me here, it's pissing me off.

Reply 1 of 29, by wd

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dosbox version?

Reply 2 of 29, by Kvnt

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It says up there. 0.73

Reply 3 of 29, by wd

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Ah ok.

Please post full information about how you installed it (especially the full
mounting lines) and how you're running it. Next post the output of "mount"
(no parameters) right before starting the game.

Reply 4 of 29, by Kvnt

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A...ha.. Yes. Didn't I link the install guide? I'll do it again.
Thanks btw.
Here. This is the exact guide that comes with the download, Bethesda's own. In a .pdf. As you se c/p'ing that would be too much. Anyway.
Followed the instructions perfectly. Thrice.

The output of mount, what do you mean by that?
Sorry I've been using dosbox for ages, just never had any problems or reasons to actually explain anything.

Reply 5 of 29, by Qbix

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even the correct casing for the label ?

Water flows down the stream
How to ask questions the smart way!

Reply 6 of 29, by wd

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Didn't I link the install guide?

I want to know what EXACTLY you typed in each step, not what you are supposed to type.

The output of mount, what do you mean by that?

Type mount at the dosbox prompt.

Reply 7 of 29, by Kvnt

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As I said, exactly like in the guide except of course I replaced the directories with mine.
My mounted c: would be /home/[username]/dos and so on.
But you need everything exactly, meaning I have to reinstall and post everything here? It's not like I remember what the guide says.

Mount says of course just that z is mounted as the internal virtual drive as its supposed to.

Well if I'll have to download and install it again I'll return tomorrow.
I'm on the worst and most unstable connection in history so it'll take a good 4 hours at least..

Last edited by Kvnt on 2010-01-15, 17:22. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 8 of 29, by robertmo

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you should have everything mouted all the time.
you need to add all the mounting commands to dosbox configuration file at the end in [autoexec] section.

Reply 9 of 29, by Kvnt

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But I always mount different dirs so why would I do that.. I don't.. quite follow here.

Reply 10 of 29, by robertmo

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every game needs exactly the same mountings all the time (during installation, and during play).

Reply 11 of 29, by wd

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Mount says of course just that z is mounted as the internal virtual drive as its supposed to.

How hard is it to exactly replicate the (pretty simple) output of mount?
I'll close the thread as you seemingly have no interest in getting down
to what you're doing wrong.

Reply 12 of 29, by Kvnt

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Yes, I don't see the problem.
I always just mount c /home/username/dos and navigate from there?

Reply 13 of 29, by robertmo

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you need to mount the cd too!

Reply 14 of 29, by Kvnt

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Apparently very hard. I'm a nub to every little thing about this. So alright. Thanks for .. oh wait. Good one.

Reply 15 of 29, by wd

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Thanks for .. oh wait. Good one.

How do you want to get help if you aren't capable of simply posting the relevant output?

Reply 16 of 29, by Kvnt

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I know this. I do that too, now I'm not a complete idiot. I mount both the cd and the dos* directory. Anyway. Don't bother.

-As I probably failed to mention too, my english is limited. I've no idea what the output of whatever means.

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Reply 17 of 29, by robertmo

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you cannot mount dagger directory!
write here what is displayed on the screen after you type mount. should be z and c and d, write that exactly as it is displayed in dosbox

Reply 18 of 29, by Kvnt

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So what you mean is after I've mounted the dirs too.Alright then.
Drive C is mounted as local directory /home/username/dos
Drive D is mounted as CDRom /home/username/dos/DFCD
Drive Z is mounted as Internal Virtual Drive

So that's it?

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