steve14 wrote:

BOLO will write on the CD and it don't work. 😵

No way. CD-ROMs are WORM (Write Once Read Many) media. They cannot be written to.

The commandbox of DOSbox says something like this:
warning: file *:\*\*.* exists and failed to open in write mode.
Please Remove write-protection

This says BOLO:
Translated message:
Can't delete c:\bolo.cfg.
BOPRG.EXE
1 file(s) copied.
Unknown command: SMARTDRV
Orginal message:
kann c:\bolo.cfg nicht löschen.
BOPRG.EXE
1 Datei(en) kopiert.
Unbekannter Befehl: SMARTDRV

Is bolo some batch file? Like bolo.bat, or calling some other batch file.

Yup ! In the mainfolder of the CD are the .bat-files BOLO.BAT, DOSSTART.BAT and WINB.BAT.

Well, you could sent here the content of those BAT files...

Mirek

Here it is:

BOLO.BAT
echo off
cd infos
checkms
boch
IF errorlevel 1 goto end
md c:\dos
md c:\dos\temp
md c:\dos\temp\bolo
md c:\dos\temp\bolo\pictures
md c:\dos\temp\bolo\pictures\screens
md c:\dos\temp\bolo\pictures\the_end
md c:\dos\temp\bolo\pictures\titles
copy boprg.exe c:\dos\temp\bolo
cd..
SMARTDRV C-
c:\dos\temp\bolo\boprg.exe
del c:\dos\temp\bolo\boprg.exe
SMARTDRV C+
cd \
rd c:\dos\temp\bolo
:end

DOSSTART.BAT
echo off
cd infos
checkms
boch
IF errorlevel 1 goto end
md c:\dos
md c:\dos\temp
md c:\dos\temp\bolo
md c:\dos\temp\bolo\pictures
md c:\dos\temp\bolo\pictures\screens
md c:\dos\temp\bolo\pictures\the_end
md c:\dos\temp\bolo\pictures\titles
copy boprg.exe c:\dos\temp\bolo
cd..
SMARTDRV C-
c:\dos\temp\bolo\boprg.exe
del c:\dos\temp\bolo\boprg.exe
SMARTDRV C+
cd \
rd c:\dos\temp\bolo
:end

WINB.BAT
cd infos
md c:\dos
md c:\dos\temp
md c:\dos\temp\bolo
md c:\dos\temp\bolo\pictures
md c:\dos\temp\bolo\pictures\screens
md c:\dos\temp\bolo\pictures\the_end
md c:\dos\temp\bolo\pictures\titles
copy boprg.exe c:\dos\temp\bolo
copy bolo.pif c:\dos\temp\bolo
cd..
SMARTDRV C-
c:\dos\temp\bolo\boprg.exe /w
SMARTDRV C+
del c:\dos\temp\bolo\boprg.exe
del c:\dos\temp\bolo\bolo.pif
cd \
rd c:\dos\temp\bolo[/u]

Well if you mount the cdrom as c:\ this doesn't work of course.

Mount some writable folder as c:, and the cdrom drive as d:.

I mounted my harddisk D and the folder "DOSGAMES" on this harddisk as C:\.
My CD/DVD drive F is the drive D:\ in DOSbox.

I tried BOLO on a Win98SE computer with DOSbox and it worked fine.
So there must be a problem with Win2000 and DOSbox.

So what dosbox messages are different when running it
under win98 compared to w2000? The line
warning: file *:\*\*.* exists and failed to open in write mode.
or is it present when running it under win98+dosbox as well?

When you run BOLO with DOSBox on Win98 you can see the loadingscreen promptly. The commandbox of DOSBox doesn't show any errormessage.

When you run BOLO with DOSBox on Win2000 you can only see a black screen and the game hangs. The commandbox of DOSBox shows lots of the errormessages which i posted.

You can always only see the message
"Can't delete c:\bolo.cfg.
BOPRG.EXE
1 file(s) copied.
Unknown command: SMARTDRV"
for some milliseconds.
It don't means anything. The game runs (DOSbox on Win98) and don't run (DOSbox on Win2000).

SMARTDRIVE (smartdrv.exe) is an old disk caching program from Microsoft. Windows 2000/XP (NT Kernel) doesn't include it.

and it doesn't do anything in DosBox so it would probably be best if you either didn't use those .BAT files or if you customized them for DosBox usage.

I give up ! 😵
I copyed the CD to my harddrive without the music (the biggest files on the CD) and it works. 😖
Maybe, I will try it again to run BOLO from CD, when I install SUSELinux on my computer again.
Thanks for your tips.

Bye,
Steve14