I tried it out earlier... it's one of those Autorun things. You have to install it before you can play, sadly. Guess I have one of the newer, 1998 versions rather than the 1997 one. Darn...

I'm pretty sure my copy in Windows only... gah. And I checked eBay, but it's hard to tell whether the ones I see being sold include the DOS version.

I've got Windows 8. Installing 3.1 wouldn't mess anything up, right?

That's the thing, though. I have a physical copy, but I can't get that to work either... if downloading the game elsewhere is illegal, I'm going to delete it immediately, though. I honestly wasn't aware. Sorry about that.

I tried downloading the game in several different places, but no matter where I get it from, the game just won't work. Everywhere else I get the game from the "msetup" works, but "monte" STILL doesn't...

I played this game as a kid and recall really liking it, so when I saw it was on Abandonia I immediately downloaded it. I can't get it playing, however. I try to run the game with "monte", and all I get is a black screen where nothing happens. I tried going into"msetup", and I can apparently setup …

Uh... how would I get to that? 😅

First I mounted the folder I made for the game in my C:... Z:\>MOUNT C C:\OLDGAMES Drive C is mounted as local directory C:/OLDGAMES Then I mounted the CD-Rom drive I put the CD into... Z:\>MOUNT D D:\ -t cdrom MSCDEX installed. Drive D is mounted as CDRom D:\ I hope that helps. EDIT: I got the game …

Hello all! Just the other day, I got a CD version of System Shock at a local thrift store. Now I'm trying to get the blasted thing to work... I followed the instructions here , and while I was able to setup the sound system just fine, trying to install the game or choose the directory to install it …