I think we may have discussed this before. I think I finally wound up manually installing it. I know it must be installed to a directory labeled Mpsdisc.007, but I know there is more to it than just copying the files. I literally think I got my copy working by accident, so I honestly don't remember the procedure I used, but I did manually install it, rather than using the install program. I then ran it from DOSBOX 0.61 (it won't work with 0.60).

awww damn... well thx anyways ill try ur idea maybe ill get lucky:S

the problem with dragonsphere is that sometimes it doesn't even work even on the proper platform i tried installing it on my friends windows 98 computer and on one with 95 and they both had the problem with memory id be able to get to the opening menu screen but id click play dragonsphere and this error message would pop up saying computer memory too low to play game so i dunno:S

i tried copiing the files myself and runnin it in dosbox but that didn't work either isn't there any way to mount c:\ so instead of detecting it as a directory it would detect it as a physical harddrive? i think that would fix a lot of problems.

This is a copy of the BAT file I run through DOSBOX

dosbox.exe C:\DS.BAT -c "mount c c:\" -c "mount e e:\ -t cdrom"

DS.BAT is another BAT file I created which simply reads

e:
menu.com

The game then runs through the menu on the CD-ROM and uses the directory you manually created on Drive C. The catch is that I cannot remember how to tell the CD where your directory is. There must be a config file somewhere. As far as I can tell it is in directory c:\mpswhere and has a file called Mpsdisc.007. That file, I assume, is what tells the CD what directory the game has been installed to, although I do not remember how I got to edit it.

ok dragonsphere still can't detect harddrive space properly and i've gotten ver 6.2 and tried to mount my hard drive space as a certain size but dragonsphere still won't install it says theres 0 space on the harddrive and it needs 0 space to install:S

Okay. Try this and follow the instructions carefully.

1. MANUALLY copy the files to a directory entitled C:\MPSDISC.007

2. Next, create a directory C:\MPSWHERE

3. Next, make a txt file reading simply "C:\MPSDISC.007"

4. Next, rename the text files MPSDISC.007 (make sure the extension is NO LONGER .TXT but .007

5. Next create a .bat file in c:\ which should read:

e:
menu.com

Of course e: = the label of your CD drive.

6. Finally, load DOSBOX 0.60 (I haven't tried 0.62 but 0.61 doesn't work). Make sure that both drive c:\ and your cd-rom are mounted. Then run the bat file.

Let me know how this works.

David

Sorry, very important. Make sure the TXT file you created and renamed MPSDISK.007 is in the MPSWHERE directory. That is how the CD knows where your files are stored.

You guys may be wasting your time.
You may have a bad download of Dragonspere! I had trouble just playing a copy I found, it would crash after choosing to start a game.
I tried all sorts of tricks with the Dosbox condig, the "dragon.bat" and a few other things.
Then I put it aside and went on to test hundreds of other games. I came upon a version somewhere else and it worked just fine.

I can see this game is a pain to a lot of people (to get running). Well, I got a new computer and copied everything exactly as it was on my old system. The problem is that when I run it, I get the error

Error "-32" in module "5" data : 0 0

Most recent memory check : 464020
Most recent DOS error : 2
Stack use indicator : 10093

I have changed the values of MEMSIZE in DOSBOX.CONF but it makes no difference whether I try large or small. Please help on this.

Note, the permanent thread on how to DRAGONSPHERE to work does not help. Mine is the ROMZON CD edition. It is a legitimate copy from some old retailer and not from the internet.

Thanks

What happens if you try loadfix?

DOS error 2 is file not found.

"What happens if you try loadfix?"

Loadfix makes no difference at all. I tried different combinations. The error is the exact same.

ripsaw8080 wrote:

DOS error 2 is file not found.

Maybe the game is not installed properly, or the original media is not mounted properly when running, or a config program was not run, or the game is not being launched in the proper way.