Originally posted by mee it tells me I can mount drives, which is the same as dragging and dropping the file, it mounts the entire path,
Don't trust it. I wish they actually hadn't added this as a feature. You really need to stick to
DOS standards when running titles with DosBox. Even if DosBox fully understands "long filenames, etc...", the DOS programs themselves wont.
...and when I enter it then it tells me it requires win32.
That seems to indicate that you are trying to run a Windows program within DosBox.
The best bet is to start over here. Pick a game, PQ1 for example (don't try troubleshoot more than one at a time...it causes headaches), un-archive it to an easy-to-find "DOS-recognizable" location (uses the 8+3 filename rules) like:
C:\FUN\PQ\PQ1
Keep the pathways (the directories) to locations that uses 8 characters or less in their name.
Presuming you would start with "Police Quest 1", you would unzip the files to C:\FUN\PQ\PQ1, then dig into that directory using Windows Explorer just to make sure they "arrived safely". If it creates a new folder in that directory, either use it (add it to the example pathway above) or grab all the files and folder inside of it and drag them back into the C:\FUN\PQ\PQ1 directory.
You would then start up DosBox and type MOUNT C C:\ and press Enter, then type C: and press Enter, then type CD FUN\PQ\PQ1.
Now you're in the actual game directory. Here, you either run the INSTALL/SETUP program to configure the game or run SIERRA to start it.
If it's configured properly, then it should run and you can adjust for speed using Ctrl+F11 or 12.