You probably need to reinstall the game from the original disk

Tried it, everything is the same.
Really can't understand this message... There is enough space to run the game, but not to setup the sound? What the...?

segasonic wrote:

Tried it, everything is the same.
Really can't understand this message... There is enough space to run the game, but not to setup the sound? What the...?

It depends on what amount of freesize DOSBox shows to itself.
Like you've tried with the parameter -freesize 500, which could be either too much or too low.

Please explain how you are mounting drives, including the cdrom. What are the contents of CDROM.DAT in your installation folder? How many .ASF files do you have in the SOUND subfolder, and what is their total combined size?

Well, for mounting, I'm using the autoexec session of the conf file. It looks like this:
[autoexec]
@ECHO OFF
MOUNT C M:\[GAMES]\DOS\
C:
CLS
ECHO 1994 rulez

When I tried Fifa96, I mounted manually because of the -freesize thing.
But I only use this method when I have to setup, install or modify something.
Usually I'm using shortcuts directly to the game's exe file.
I have a directory for the conf files, nearly every game has its own conf file, for the perfect working.

My version of Fifa96 is not the original, I just found it on an old cd with a few other games. I copied the fifa files to the auto-mounted dir, and started the install with Dosbox and Norton Commander. When its done, I can play with FIFA.BAT, but can't setup any option, because of the H.D. full message.
The CDROM.DAT contains: blah
That is funny anyway 🤣
There's no .ASF files in the SOUND folder, only .BNK, .PAR and .VIV.

that's why we usually don't bother with copied games... You'd need the original CD-Rom and reinstall and it would work.

I remember once i had a similar issue, not in dosbox but in real dos. I ended up discovering the files were set as read only for some reason... You have nothing to lose verifying

In real dos i would use the attrib command but im not sure it works in Dosbox.

You could just right click-properties on the game files in windows and see if they are set as read-only.

Short: thread should be closed. We don't support Warez on VOGONS.

Long: I was a bad(der) boy when I was young. That's how I know what CLS (CLASS) is/was. I'm pretty sure those guys only did Windows games, it's entirely possible the DOS executable doesn't work at all. Also, those rips were faulty quite often in general, and would only work properly after using "fixes", or after manually editing config files, especially when the game has been unpacked to a different directory than the one intended by the crackers.

There is no reason to keep this thread open.