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First post, by exofreeze

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I recently acquired a cd version of the game Pilgrim Quest. During the install, when the user chooses the soundcard, the program makes a gigantic assumption that you use a startup disk. When you select the soundcard it insists on copying the drivers to your startup disk, which is presumes to be the A:.

Immediately a box pops up "insert boot disk in a:", and after clicking it will come back and say "no startup disk found". Beneath the box is an option that says, "change start-up disk", however the error message prevents you from click on it. Clicking the error box makes it go away and reappear, and after 3 or 4 times it kicks you back to the sound card selection.

I have attempted to mount a folder as the A: (mount a .\games\PilgrimQ\a\ -t floppy), however I get the same message. I supposed it was looking for specific start-up files, so I copied the contents of the Z: to the A: and reran the install, however I have the same problem.

There is a floppy rip of pilgrim quest floating around that I tried out, and it worked just fine, however I'd like to take advantage of the cd version (the floppy rip is a meg or 2, while the cd is 150megs or so... so I assume there is significant additions).

I am usuing dosbox 0.74 and a file dump of the cd. When I tried to use a bin/cue it stated there were problems, so insted I just copied the contents to a folder and mounted it as a cd (there are no audio tracks on the disc)

Mount command is:
mount d .\games\PilgrimQ\cd\ -t cdrom

Any suggestions or assistance would be appreciated.

Reply 1 of 2, by ripsaw8080

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If you create a dummy CONFIG.SYS on C: then the installer will let you install on that drive. Installation isn't complicated in this case because the installer only copies a sound driver and updates CONFIG.SYS so the driver is loaded. The game's sound drivers are device drivers (.SYS) which are not directly supported in DOSBox unless you boot real DOS. I was able to load the SBPro device driver by using a command-line utility for loading devices, but it's quite possible that it won't work completely. I first set sbtype=sbpro1 then executed "device sbpdd.sys 1". Once the driver is loaded, I run GO.BAT on the cdrom drive and the game appears to be working.

BTW, this game has the most annoying way of using the mouse that I've ever seen.

Reply 2 of 2, by exofreeze

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Thank you ripsaw8080. I'll give that a go tomorrow.