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Are You Afraid of the Dark?: The Tale of Orpheo's Curse

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First post, by DFA1979

Posted on 2006-08-06, 03:12

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i am going to provide as much information that i know how to before i get to my problem:

# Motherboard - Sorry, don't know how to check this. if someone could tell me I would be able to provide the information.

# Processor type and speed - AMD Duron [pentium 3?] 751 mhz

# Amount and type of RAM - 640mb

# Video board w/ RAM amount and type - not sure [someone please tell me how to check so i can give the info.]

# Sound board - not sure [someone tell me how to check]

# Operating system - WinXp

# Game name (and version, if applicable) Are You Afraid of the Dark?: The Tale of Orpheo's Curse

I'm trying to follow this guide and i've followed everything exactly as they said, and when it comes time to put in "H:\>INSTALL" [my drive is E, so i obviously changed it in the dosbox setup] it says "Illegal command: INSTALL.]

any help here? I will provide more information if needed. [sorry if i am coming off as an idiot]

Reply 1 of 22, by MiniMax

Posted on 2006-08-06, 10:11

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Please show us the AutoExec section of your DOSBox.conf.

And - do a DIR command before you try the INSTALL, and post the result of the DIR command here.

Reply 2 of 22, by DFA1979

Posted on 2006-08-06, 16:30

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[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount E E:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
mount C C:\
C:

also, what is a DIR command? [sorry, i've never used dos/dosbox before.]

Reply 3 of 22, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2006-08-06, 19:10

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DIR command is used to display a list of files/folders.

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Reply 4 of 22, by DFA1979

Posted on 2006-08-06, 19:18

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http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/1605/dirwm0.jpg
that's C:\>DIR

For E:\> it says
E:\>DIR
Directory of E:\.
File *.* not found.

Reply 5 of 22, by Qbix

Posted on 2006-08-06, 19:45

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hmm no files on E ?
Weird
Try using DOSBox 0.65 btw. It is much more compatible.

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Reply 6 of 22, by DFA1979

Posted on 2006-08-06, 21:09

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i just installed 0.6.5 and i'm getting the same thing.

E:\>DIR
Directory of E:\.
File *.* not found.

Reply 7 of 22, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2006-08-07, 10:09

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Are you sure the -usecd 0 is correct? Try removing it.

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Reply 8 of 22, by DFA1979

Posted on 2006-08-07, 14:00

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i removed it so it looked like this:
mount E E:\ -t cdrom -ioctl
then like this:
mount E E:\ -t cdrom
then like this:
mount E E:\

none worked. i really don't see what's wrong...

Reply 9 of 22, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2006-08-07, 14:28

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Are you sure the physical cd-rom letter is E too?

Can you use a different drive?

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Reply 10 of 22, by DFA1979

Posted on 2006-08-07, 14:49

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it's the only drive i have that works.

i have an f drive as well, bit it doesn't read anything.

EDIT:
i actually had a cd-rom drive laying around, so i'll check that. [it's brand new so it should work]

another edit:
won't recognize the new drive either...

i know e should work, because it's the drive i've installed everything through.

Reply 11 of 22, by MiniMax

Posted on 2006-08-08, 17:20

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Okay.... Reality check time. If you insert the CD-ROM in your E-drive, can you then browse/navigate around on the CD-ROM with Windows Explorer in Windows XP?? Which files are visible in the root folder of E: ?

Reply 12 of 22, by DFA1979

Posted on 2006-08-08, 19:37

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no files are visible.....

Reply 13 of 22, by wd

Posted on 2006-08-08, 20:11

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And at what point exactly do you think the magic will kick in?

Reply 14 of 22, by DFA1979

Posted on 2006-08-08, 23:56

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i don't see why they wouldn't be visible, seeing that it is the retail version of the game.

Reply 15 of 22, by DosFreak

Posted on 2006-08-09, 01:05

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If you mount an image of the CD can you see the files then?

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Reply 16 of 22, by DFA1979

Posted on 2006-08-09, 01:19

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no. *i tried magicdisc and alcohol 120%*

Reply 17 of 22, by DosFreak

Posted on 2006-08-09, 01:19

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No I meant a .CUE/.BIN image created with ISOBUSTER and mounted inside of DosBox using the "IMGMOUNT" command.

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Reply 18 of 22, by DFA1979

Posted on 2006-08-09, 02:13

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DosFreak wrote:
No I meant a .CUE/.BIN image created with ISOBUSTER and mounted inside of DosBox using the "IMGMOUNT" command.

sorry, i just got isobuster, bit i can't figute out how to create a .cue/.bin image. [sorry, but i'm completely new to this.]

Reply 19 of 22, by MiniMax

Posted on 2006-08-09, 08:58

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DFA1979 wrote:
no files are visible.....

And if you start a CMD.EXE window, and do:

1C:\> E:
2E:\> attrib

what do you see then?

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