Looks like afraid.bat wants an "E:" drive. Post the contents of afraid.bat.

No matter what, the following is going to expose me as a retarded noob...but what do you mean the contents of the .bat file? I should note it is the ONLY file under the "AFRAID" folder (inside "OLDGAMES")

The original instructions called for the user to install the game and then use VDMSound, and keep the cd mounted.

open afraid.bat with notepad

@echo off
E:
E:\AFRAID E:\AFRAID.DTA -dp C:\VNM\AFRAID
C:

Alright so I went back over to the installation page and here's my question....if I mount E drive (E being my cdrom), when I get to this part, I'm a bit confused:

Hopefully, you're all set! Now, it's time to run the game. Previously I had mentioned a game called TESTDRIV in my OLDGAMES folder. I now want DOSBox to go to that folder. So type in:

C:\>CD TESTDRIV

C:\TESTDRIV>

For one thing, I wouldn't have an OLDGAMES folder still, correct?

[MOVED]

ok, so where was this moved to? 🤣 ah I see...

If the "instructions" tell you to use vdmsound, it doesn't sound like that's
the original version of the game, is it?

Contact your game burner then, DrVeronica.

I thought VDMsound allowed a person to play a MSdos game on their more "advanced" system, and that's it...

and what do you mean by "original version"...do you mean a hard copy of the game? I thought I had mentioned in my first post that the game is on a cd-r

DrVeronica wrote:

I thought VDMsound allowed a person to play a MSdos game on their more "advanced" system, and that's it...

No, the VDMSound 1.10 package provides an emulated SoundBlaster (1.0, Pro 1&2, 16) for the NTVDM of WinNT, Win2K and WinXP. The NTVDM provides the emulated DOS environment for applications and some games.

DrVeronica wrote:

and what do you mean by "original version"...do you mean a hard copy of the game? I thought I had mentioned in my first post that the game is on a cd-r

That is the big clue in your post, the fact that the game was burned on a 'cd-r'. You see, older legitimate versions of commercial games are not burned on a cd-r, they are stamped on a CD-ROM or came on 5.25 or 3.5 inch diskettes. So your copy is pirated and you should go visit the person, place or website from which you received your 'pirate copy' and ask your technical support questions there... This website does not condone game piracy. Look at the bottom three text lines on every VOGONs webpage.

dvwjr

Sheesh, let's not get our panties in a bunch.

Let me make this known, since I feel I HAVE to...

I KNOW "older legitimate" games are on cd-roms and disks...I HAVE THIS very game, currently on a NON WORKING acer comp running WIN 95 from '94...if I could get that baby up and running and IF I could FIND the cd (which I CANNOT), then boy o boy I wouldn't have had to get my hands on this "illegal" copy here...it's not like I just RANDOMLY picked this game here fellas, I love this game and I KNOW this game b/c I OWN it but CAN'T obviously play it.

::rolls eyes::

I don't have the game (or a copy), and I know it's important to always use the original media, especially since the original media does last forever, and modern computer equipment is backward compatible forever too. 😜

That aside, for the sake of general dosbox use, one doesn't need to use vdmsound. DOSBox itself emulates an x86 PC and various peripherals (more or less.) including the soundcard.

If you dislike vista for instance, you could run your favorite Windows OS in an emulator as well: virtualbox http://www.virtualbox.org/ or qemu http://www.qemu.org/. I personally recommend using ubuntu linux http://www.ubuntu.com/ as the host OS, as it is free and isn't full of anti-features.

For your case in regard to the game cd, I'd recommend these commands
mount c C:\oldgames
mount d e:\afraid
d:
dir

look for the setup or installer, then run it.
if you can install the game, you should be able to run it fine from what you mount as C:\ (which is the directory oldgames on your host os.)

woo hoo I finally got the game going, thank you boyofdestiny 😀

the only thing now is that the game is a bit choppy...I went ahead and increased my CUP usage to 95%, which did help out the speed of it big time but the game is still choppy as I move my mouse across. I've played with the frameskip (0 on up but it didn't really help)

is there anything I can do more to help the performance? I was thinking of increasing the ram, but isn't that what I'm doing if I'm increasing CPU?

core=dynamic
cycles=max