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No CD Drive found in Dosbox

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First post, by Simoon

Posted on 2003-11-03, 15:34

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hi there,

i bought Nordlandtrilogie "schicksalsklinge", an old dos game last week and i'm spending (wasting?) my time with getting it started. at the moment i've got 2 possibilities to play it:

- without dosbox, everything runs fine but midi sound (or whatever, i can hear the cd sound but nothing else) and the mouse doesn't move properly if it does at all

- with dosbox, it says the game needs a cd drive and it can't find any on my PC; no midi sound again...

so, it would be the best if someone just could tell me how i can get the mouse working under xp, that would be really great!

maybe i am too dumb for this stuff, but i am a great fan of this game and i neeeeeeeed it 😉

Simoon

Reply 1 of 6, by gidierre

Posted on 2003-11-03, 21:00

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>with dosbox, it says the game needs a cd drive

already tried mounting with the -ioctl switch ?

Reply 2 of 6, by Simoon

Posted on 2003-11-04, 18:39

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hi there!

erm.... no. i use dosboxfrontend, a proram with a windows GUI, so that i don't have to do that shitty typing. how does this thing work/ how can i install it. i'd be thankful for a more detailed description how to do this!

nevertheless, thanks a lot for your help!

simoon

p.s.: i have got the problem that i cannot type "\" backslash, even the ascii code alt+92 doesn't work. that is why i have to use dosboxfro as GUI

Last edited by Simoon on 2003-11-04, 18:48. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 3 of 6, by Qbix

Posted on 2003-11-04, 19:10

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Simoon wrote:
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hi there!

erm.... no. i use dosboxfrontend, a proram with a windows GUI, so that i don't have to do that shitty typing. how does this thing work/ how can i install it. i'd be thankful for a more detailed description how to do this!

nevertheless, thanks a lot for your help!

simoon

p.s.: i have got the problem that i cannot type "" backslash, even the ascii code alt+92 doesn't work. that is why i have to use dosboxfro as GUI

use "/" or type your commands in the [autoexec] of the dosbox configfile.

the mounting goes as follows
mount d d:\ -t cdrom
or mount d d:\ -t cdrom -ioctl

(presuming d:\ is your cdrom drive in windows)

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Reply 4 of 6, by Simoon

Posted on 2003-11-04, 21:39

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ok guys,

the cdrom problem is fixed now, although i don't know yet how to autostart the cdrom mount, do i have to type:

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
# mount d f:\ -t cdrom -ioctl

or how exactly?

i still haven't ANY sound in there, no cd sound and no midi... i wonder if we could get that fixed!

thanks, simoon

Reply 5 of 6, by Snover

Posted on 2003-11-04, 22:19

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# is a commented line.

Yes, it’s my fault.

Reply 6 of 6, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2003-11-05, 11:46

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As Snover "suggested", remove the # from the lines you want to execute. Otherwise, they will be treated as comments = ignored. It should look like something like this...

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount d f:\ -t cdrom -ioctl

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