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SimEarth in DOSBox?

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First post, by yandat

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I'm trying to get SimEarth to work on DOXBox. The only version I could get that had an .exe that wouldn't crash on me was,

Edit: Link removed by MiniMax. Please don't post link to questionable downloads

That .exe is INSTALL.EXE

I try to select install from drive A or B, install to drive C...

See this is where I think something is wrong. I'm not experienced with DOSBox past playing Master of Orion, but I have an intel mac on OSX. Pretty sure there is no C.

Anyway, I select it anyway and set all the options, and of course it can't find A:simearth.dat because there is no damn drive A on a macbook.

Am I pretty much screwed, or is there some way I could get an already installed folder and copy it over to work on DOSBox? What are my options?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Reply 1 of 1, by MiniMax

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Read this to get a C-drive in DOSBox:

60 seconds guide to getting your game to run in DOSBox

You can "create" an A-drive or B-drive by using the mount command with -t floppy option. See the DOSBox ReadMe file for details.

DOSBox 60 seconds guide | How to ask questions
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