Bard's Tale 3 Problems \ VOGONS

Bard's Tale 3 Problems

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First post, by Nicias

Posted on 2005-10-14, 13:17

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I have installed dosbox using fink on my mac (10.4.2.) I downloaded the "Self installing EXE" and the "Official Cracked EXE" from
http://www.bardstaleonline.com/BT3/Downloads.asp

This results in two files: Thief.exe (O.C. EXE) and thief_of_fate-msdos.exe (S.I. EXE)

Here is the relavent code of me running each:

1C:\BARD>THIEF.EXE
2
3C:\BARD>_

The other one shows up as "THIEF_~2.EXE"

1C:\BARD>THIEF_~2.EXE
2This program cannot be run in DOS mode.
3
4C:\BARD>_

What am I doing wrong?

-Nicias

Reply 1 of 3, by Qbix

Posted on 2005-10-14, 13:30

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the second is probably a windows self extractor

try unzipping/unrarring it from MACOSX

It's an unfortunate trend.
Quite some companies who distribute dosgames turn them into self extracting WINDOWS executables....
While it's perfectly simple to create dos selfextractors.

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Reply 2 of 3, by Nicias

Posted on 2005-10-17, 12:35

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I extracted the files on a windows machine at work, copied them to the mac and now it works! Thanks for the help

-Nicias

Reply 3 of 3, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2005-10-17, 12:38

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I see that modern compilations are stupid enough to be made using the windows installer of some packer. There are self-extracting files for ms-dos too.

One Hint for these cases...

You can often rename these self-extractors to match the file extension for the packer used (ZIP, RAR) and unpack them manually on your host O.S.

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