Yes, Kippesoep is spot on. Have tried everything suggested and I can't seem to avoid these illegal read/write errors...

Probably withholding; tried with mount C as well, although I don't think I need to mount an extra drive since MC seems to work off the disk.

Actually, I did read this quite thoroughly. There are no install/setup files for magic carpet as I recall when I played it on old machines it was loaded entirely from the disk.

install via dosbox? I can't remember what the command line is 😒

Sorry, I must have overlooked that... here's what I typed: imgmount d /path/to/cd/image.iso -t iso d: cd carpet carpet then chose no sound/ no music

The mount seems to work now, when I run the carpet/carpet.exe this time I get a few errors that look like this: ERROR File data/build0-0.dat press return to continue, then the same for build0-0.tab, tmaps 0-0.tab, pal0-0.dat, mspr0-0.dat, mspr0-0.tab, blk0-1.tab (thought that you couldn't have '-' …

Thanks for the advice! I tried this and it said "image must be on local or host drive" something like that. I had already mounted the ISO using daemon tools. Most likely I'm still doing something wrong?

I have been having a different problem getting magic carpet to work. I had the ISO of MC plus and dragged contents onto the hard drive. I de-"read only"-ed everything and tried running on dosbox. The dos4gw exe just returned an error when I tried to run it, while the carpet exe gave me a list of " …