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First post, by Crowley

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I'm having trouble with this rather obscure game. I've installed it, yet when I try to run it, I get this message:

There seems to be an error from your CD.
You must have your Alpha Storm CD in your CD drive.
Please check your CD and retry.

I have tried several different command lines to mount the CD drive, this being the most complex:

mount d e:\ -t cdrom -label ALPHA STORM -ioctl -usecd 0

I've checked that "ALPHA STORM" is the label for the CD and zero is the number mount -cd gives for drive E:

Possibly related to this, I had trouble installing the game. The installation program is a simple batch file, which includes this:

:GETSTARTED ECHO Hold down CTRL and press C to abort. ECHO Installing Alpha Storm to %1 PAUSE IF EXIST %1\NUL GOTO D1 MD %1 IF N […]
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:GETSTARTED
ECHO Hold down CTRL and press C to abort.
ECHO Installing Alpha Storm to %1
PAUSE
IF EXIST %1\NUL GOTO D1
MD %1
IF NOT EXIST %1\NUL GOTO FAILURE
:D1
IF NOT EXIST %1\MONS\NUL MD %1\MONS
IF NOT EXIST %1\OLD_ONES\NUL MD %1\OLD_ONES
IF NOT EXIST %1\PACS\NUL MD %1\PACS
IF NOT EXIST %1\SOUNDS\NUL MD %1\SOUNDS
IF NOT EXIST %1\SPAM\NUL MD %1\SPAM
IF NOT EXIST %1\SPAM\BASE\NUL MD %1\SPAM\BASE
IF NOT EXIST %1\SPAM\DARK\NUL MD %1\SPAM\DARK
IF NOT EXIST %1\SPAM\IMP\NUL MD %1\SPAM\IMP
IF NOT EXIST %1\SPAM\VARG\NUL MD %1\SPAM\VARG
IF NOT EXIST %1\SPAM\PIR\NUL MD %1\SPAM\PIR
IF NOT EXIST %1\TEXAS\NUL MD %1\TEXAS
IF NOT EXIST %1\YARDS\NUL MD %1\YARDS
COPY /b MONS %1\MONS
COPY /b PACS %1\PACS
COPY /b SOUNDS %1\SOUNDS
COPY /b SPAM\BASE %1\SPAM\BASE
COPY /b SPAM\DARK %1\SPAM\DARK
COPY /b SPAM\IMP %1\SPAM\IMP
COPY /b SPAM\PIR %1\SPAM\PIR
COPY /b SPAM\VARG %1\SPAM\VARG
COPY /b TEXAS %1\TEXAS
COPY /b YARDS %1\YARDS
COPY /b MAP.ALF %1
COPY /b ALF.E~E %1\STORM.EXE
COPY /b DOS4GW.E~E %1\DOS4GW.EXE
COPY /b SETSOUND.E~E %1\SETSOUND.EXE
ECHO Installation complete!
ECHO Please go to directory %1 and type:
ECHO 'SETSOUND' to configure your sound card;
ECHO 'STORM' to play Alpha Storm.
GOTO EXIT

When I ran this, it only managed to copy the four files which were referred to individually near the end, but not the contents of the directories before those. I had to copy those manually to get the game working this far.

I have tried making a BIN/CUE image file and mounting that to DosBox. I even tried mounting that to a virtual CD-ROM drive and mounting the virtual drive. Nothing seems to work.

edit: Oh yeah, this is with DosBox 0.73.

more edit: The game CD seems to contain audio tracks too, in case that has any bearing on the problem.

Reply 1 of 7, by skttrbrain

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Yes... I have the same problem.

I did everything you had done and had the same warning... cannot find where it points to the CD... some config file...

I purchased this obscure game on eBay recently. There must have been a stash of these found... my copy was unopened... though I am guessing no one bought it the first time round so finding an unopened copy was not hard.

This game has an entry on Moby Games so I guess it is possible to run.

Reply 6 of 7, by RealGecko

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I`m running cd version of Alpha Storm under DOSBox 0.74 in linux and get same message:
There seems to be an error from your CD.
You must have your Alpha Storm CD in your CD drive.
Please check your CD and retry.
It`s said in 0.74 description that bug is fixed. But it is not fixed as I see:(