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First post, by cmpear

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I'm new at it. So It's my first post. 😊

😢 few of my games recommed me to make another mount so i can install game into CDrive where I keep all of my games under Dosbox. They all wirk pretty well. 😢 I screw up once or twice. 😦 I sure need help with it. I learned how to use DosBox from Abandonia. 😏

Does anyone know how to do it? 😊 I seem to can't find a manuals that show how to do it.

Chrissy P

Reply 1 of 4, by eL_PuSHeR

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I do not fully understand you. Could you explain yourself better?

If you are looking for guides to DOSBox, there is a GUIDES section in the forum. You should start looking there.

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Reply 2 of 4, by cmpear

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It's ok. I don't understand myself so you're not alone. I'm on my father's computer and my laptop's in my bedroom. 😦 I might already trashed the info and game which I have problem install out of furious. 😢 Since I'm deaf and I usually having hard time explain. The problem is that I can't remember which games having problem install. I only have few that probably said the same.

Let me try my best at explain even through I'm suck at it. I havin' problem install the game using DOSBox. Trust me sometime it work on some games like Discworld. Anyway I have problem install it. then I read the "read it" instruction. It said that in order to Install the game succesful I have to make a new mount folder and install from it. Do you understand?? If you don't. I'll try to find a game that I have problem install and post the read me instructions. It might take a while since I don't remember which one.

I think create another mount folder which I haven't learn yet. I only learned the basic that help me play old games with DOSBox.

Chrissy

Reply 3 of 4, by eL_PuSHeR

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Aha.

The common rule of thumb when installing most games within DOSBox is that you need a CD-ROM drive to install from (if the game it's on CD, it needs to be installed first) and a hard disk to store data (where you install to). So, in order to do this, we would type at the DOSBox Z:\> prompt:

mount c c:\oldgames (this is our hard-disk. Obviously folder OLDGAMES must exist on C:)

mount d f:\ -t cdrom -ioctl

This line mounts a suitable CD-ROM drive. Just because more than one drive was uncommon in the ms-dos days, we are calling it D: - because the hard disk is C:

The second letter (F:) is THE REAL LETTER of the physical drive you are using (change it for your real CD/DVD drive letter if appropiate).

After that, we go to the cd

Z:\>d:
D:\>

And type whatever is needed for invoking installation procedure (install, setup, etc)

E.G.

D:\>install.exe

After installation is complete, we may need to keep the disc in the drive, but we play from C: (where we installed to)

D:\>c:
C:\>cd mygame {assuming your game was installed to a folder with this name}

C:\MYGAME\>start.bat

That's it. I still advise you to read the guides on the forum.

Good luck!

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Reply 4 of 4, by cmpear

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Thanks I'll try after I burn some games. My computer don't have cd-rom but have DVD CD-rom and sometime it's don't work with cds. So I'll try. Also I want to install from another folder but I doubt It would help. Thanks anyway.
Chrissy P