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game looks for wrong cd label

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First post, by prompt

Posted on 2004-08-07, 11:17

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The problem: I have a game (the pandora directive) that fails to read the cd labels. The six (original) cds are labeled PANDORA{1-6} and when the game wants cd 1, it looks for a label DISK1 which is wrong and therefore fails. But if I remove the name check and simply return the label, it succeeds. I didn't test cd swaping, but the game still recognizes a wrong disc. Btw: the game works (with the same cds) in a dosemu/msdos6 setup.

1drive_local.cpp:
2
3	//if (WildFileCmp(dirCache.GetLabel(),tempDir)) {
4		// Get Volume Label
5		dta.SetResult(dirCache.GetLabel(),0,0,0,DOS_ATTR_VOLUME);
6		return true;
7	//}

Would there be problems if that check is removed ?

Reply 1 of 7, by Qbix

Posted on 2004-08-07, 11:34

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easy to test i think.

Just write a small com file which searches for the volumelabel and check how much the filename in ds:dx matters.

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Reply 2 of 7, by prompt

Posted on 2004-08-07, 13:57

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The search pattern doesn't seem to matter for volume names. If you want to check yourself, execute attached file in real dos. Its pattern is XXXXXXXX.XXX and it prints out the volume name if executed in the root of a drive.

Reply 3 of 7, by Jiri

Posted on 2004-08-08, 11:36

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Reminds me of this thread. Some info about the problems with Pandora is also here.

Reply 4 of 7, by Qbix

Posted on 2004-08-08, 11:58

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would be nice if those game worked then 😀
I'll include the fix. Not sure when. First some testing on that iso support

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Reply 5 of 7, by Jiri

Posted on 2004-08-08, 12:08

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Qbix wrote:
would be nice if those game worked then 😀

Yes, I could not agree more. 😀

Reply 6 of 7, by Qbix

Posted on 2004-08-08, 12:48

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well i committed the change. Not sure if it will pop up in Ieremiou nexts build. as he's patching the sources allready.

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Reply 7 of 7, by Jiri

Posted on 2004-08-08, 17:24

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Thank you, Prompt and Qbix, Pandora now works in DOSBox. 😀 I tried the game after compiling CVS with the change. CD switching seems to be working fine, I checked CD 1, 2 and 3. Pandora freezes in movement mode with dynamic core, but works with normal core. Speed is not high, but I think the game is fairly playable with 2.5 GHz processor, increased cycles and rendering quality in the preferences set on "med" or "low".

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