I may be stating the obvious, but does this mean that Redguard can't work in Glidos even with vdos32 under XP64? That would be a shame. When I try to load Redguard through Vdos I get a 'not an LE file type' error, and if I try to load it with Glidos, even with vdos32 in the Glidos folder, I click ' …

I had looked into using smartdrv, but it doesn't seem to work the way the Arena manual explains it in win98. For example there is no smartdrv.sys in my Windows install - not sure where to find it. There is a smartdrv.exe but that only works in dos-mode, and I'm not sure how to use it on a boot …

I don't think it's going to work - but the game works so much better off the HD - as long as I stay in Windows. Question is - how do I get sound to work now?

wait a tick - will i still be able to use an emulated drive if i drop down to dos? can i use mscdex for this purpose? here is what my bootfloppy looks like: for autoexec.bat @ECHO OFF LH /L:1 mouse.com LH C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:IDECD001 LH C:\essolo.COM and then for config.sys DEVICEHIGH …

thanks you guys - i think this might work! Now, can i just drop my old savegames into the new install folder?

thanks for the suggestions - dosbox is not an option as I want to play without virtualization. Now, if I make an image of the CD, how do I convince arena to use that drive instead of the one it's installed on?

I have the cd-rom version of Elder Scrolls Arena (v.1.07) and I'm running it off an old ibm 390e - with windows 98. The game runs almost entirely off the CD, the way it's supposed to, but the frequent CD accesses really slow things down. Does anyone know of a clever way to get the game to run …