Read here: http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Basic_Setup_and_In … ation_of_DosBox
Keep in mind that you'll need BOTH a HDD mount and a CD mount...
How to run the game .exe? Well if it installs to the harddrive, after you do BOTH mounts, go to the hard drive (e.g: c:)
change to the path where you installed (e.g: cd tekwar)
and type the game start command (e.g: tekwar.exe) I don't know the specifics, I don't have that game, but I think this is enough to get you going.

Thanks that worked like a charm, although the game hates the intro now. Another problem now is that the FMV cutscenes are really choppy and slow; is there any way to fix this?

Nevermind, I got that fixed. But here's another problem. I can't seem to mount the Shadow of the Comet Talkie CD in DOSBOX, and when I try to play the EXE itself, it just goes to a blank screen with DOSBOX's font changed to something a lot more pixely. 🙁

Secret Fawful wrote:

Nevermind, I got that fixed.

You can fix Shatner's acting?

Hahaha. Why would I want to? 😁

I'm going to Let's Play the game; the awfulness is just a part of the fun. 😁

Glad Tekwar worked...
For Shadow of the Comet the same reasoning applies...
You'll need both a hard drive mount and a CD mount, I do have that game and I just tested it (Dosbox 0.74), it needs to create an INFOGRAM folder with a shadow.cd subfolder in the harddrive
so...you'll need, again, both mounts AND you need to install it first (so it can setup your options) from the mounted CD drive: install.exe (BTW, I forgot how awful that setup was), anyway, you do need to install it, set hardware options, and have both mounts while playing anytime and, obviously, while installing.
(God, how I miss when you had to do that for every game...and set up IRQs for Ripterm (and hence your modem, so it wouldn't freeze the mouse)
So, for any CD game you have you'll need both mounts, you'll probably need to set it up (or install it [I think Prisoner of Ice, didn't need a setup, funny]) and you'll probably be all right, some games may be a tad slow, depending on your hardware but that's how it is.
On another note some games did that on real hardware. (exit and leave you as if you set "mode 40", with huge characters, funny, I just tried that...DosBox doesn't support it 😜)

Secret Fawful wrote:

Nevermind, I got that fixed. But here's another problem. I can't seem to mount the Shadow of the Comet Talkie CD in DOSBOX, and when I try to play the EXE itself, it just goes to a blank screen with DOSBOX's font changed to something a lot more pixely. 🙁

It just keeps saying Installation path must be C:\INFOGRAM\SHADOW.CD but it never installs, the install just closes after I click ok. Sometimes it won't close right away though and I have to press enter for it to close down.

Post pics of every step of the process.

What DosFreak said 😜, was typing when he replied, also, do type or paste your mounts.

Ok, you get a graphical installer, you choose a language, click on install and just click "Ok", it installs, really quickly, as it writes just 2 small files, and you're all set to go..are you changing the installation path somehow? Mine doesn't let me, actually.
If installed correctly, the install button changes to "Update".
Can you copy and paste here your mounts, or type them if you do them by hand?

Okay here is what I do.

I start up DOSBOX.

Since the CD is in Drive D, I type this-

MOUNT C D:\

Then

C:

Then it goes to drive D where I type in

INSTALL.EXE

and then I get this-

I click okay, and it either crashes to DOSBOX or I have to press Enter and then it crashes back to DOSBOX.

It wants to write a file. CDs do not have writable file systems.

Mount D: for D:\, and mount a blank folder on a hard drive for C:.

I tried it and again it just crashes the install. I tried doing it without mounting a C drive as well and the install gave me a bunch of french text at the bottom basically telling me I need to install to C:\INFOGRAM\SHADOW.CD again, then it crashed to DOSBOX as before.

Please read the FIRST reply in this thread (same suggestion as from leileilol), as well as the guides here on the forums.

Well I would but I already got it running. Thanks anyway.

Nice, usually quite easy if you follow some general points about mounting your stuff.