Hello. I've been feeling a bit nostalgic of late and wanted to have a crack at playing the finest collection of doom levels ever!.......namely eternal by TNT...as they were meant to be played... under dos.
The thing is i cannot start eternal from it's 'shell'. When pressing enter it does nothing. All i get is 'echo is on' Has anyone had success in this?
Many Thanks
Folks,
Sorry to dig up this old thread, but here is something that's been comfortably resting on my hard drive for quite some time.
Directly from the included readme:
This archive contains an unofficial patched executable for the frontend menu utility "Eternal Shell" that was included with Team […]
This archive contains an unofficial patched executable for the frontend menu utility "Eternal Shell" that was included with TeamTNT / Team Eternal's "Eternal DOOM III" to allow the shell to function properly when using DOSBox to run the game.
The Eternal Shell creates the standard DOS batch file "RUNET.BAT" on the fly for actually running the game. Some of the commands contained in the batch file include the "|" character, which DOSBox doesn't seem to like.
This patch simply changes the following runtime lines contained in the Eternal Shell excecutable "ESHELL.EXE" from:
@ECHO | %s%s\DOOM2 @ETERNAL.RSP
@ECHO | DOOM2 @%s%s\ETERNAL.RSPto read:
%s%s\DOOM2 @ETERNAL.RSP
DOOM2 @%s%s\ETERNAL.RSP...viola, problem fixed!
Included in this archive are the files "ESHELL.ORI" and "ESHELL.BOX". "ESHELL.ORI" is the original undedited Eternal Shell executable (for backup purposes), and "ESHELL.BOX" is the patched executable.
To install, simply copy the files to the directory on your hard drive where Eternal DOOM III is installed, and then copy the file "ESHELL.BOX" to the filename "ESHELL.EXE" (overwriting the existing file).
Rich ¥Weeds¥ Nagel
http://www.richnagel.net
