Disc copy protection maybe?

See this topic.
Alien Legacy CD version and DosBox 0.72 - SOLVED

thank you, that thread was sort of helpful. so, i should change the cd's "label"? how do i do that?

The readme tells you

i looked in the readme file but i idnt see anything about changing labels

Search again.

i just noticed that the top of the window, the disk is named "al_cd_v110". so i guess thats not the problem 🙁

by the way, i was reading the README file from the AL disk, not for dosbox 🤣. no wonder i couldnt find it

you know, looking over the readme, i still dont quite understand how to change the label. whats the command procedure?

http://www.dosbox.com/DOSBoxManual.html#CantFindCD

so, i go to my e: file (my cd drive) and type this-
e: -label al_cd_v110 and it responds with this-
E:\>

does that mean the label worked? because it still didnt find the cd

That won't do anything. You can only set the label when you're using the "mount" command (along with -t cdrom).

do you mean:
mount e e:\ -t cdrom -label al_cd_v110

For example but you should mount d not mount e...

With mine the first letter is capitalized. See if "Al_cd_v110" makes a difference.

i typed-
mount e e:\ -t cdrom -label Al_cd_v110

it replied
MSCDEX: Failure: Drive-letters of multiple CDRom-drives have to be continuous

1) Use "mount d" instead of "mount e".
2) It sounds like you already mounted something as a cdrom. See that the the autoexec section in DOSBox Settings doesn't already have a mounting.

the e drive is my cd drive

i went into my autoexec and deleted the MOUNT section. i opened dosbox, then typed
mount e e:\ -t cdrom -label Al_cd_v110 (the e drive is my cd drive, and it works on my other dos game)

i tried to run it and it still wont read. im beginning to think i wont be able to play this game. and i really appreciate you guys helping me out, thank you for your help so far.