Looks like your mount is incorrect. Your game shouldn't be in C:\ but C:\wherever you installed it.

In other words if silent.bat is in /users/yourusername/dosgames/silent (for example), don't mount that as c but /users/yourusername/dosgames and then in Dosbox change directory to silent (cd silent) and then run the silent.bat

YES. I Tried that. I put Silent in dosgame Folder then mounted dosgame. Then used C:\>CD\SILENT, THEN C:\>SILENT.BAT AND I got the exact same message:

C:\SILENT>SS2 VGA IBM 720
Illegal command: SS2

It seems that there is something preventing the program run.?? Why would SS2 be an illegal command?

could you make a screenshot of when you are using the mounts like I wrote (with mountings, cd and batch file execution? Also is ss2.exe (or ss2.com) in the silent folder?

Hi-- Here is 2 screen shots. The top shot is the mounting and the CD to Silent and the Silent.bat command and the error message.
The lower screen shot is a view after my command of DIR- which shows the file content.
And there is no ss2.exe or ss2.com or ss.anything in the folder. There is an s.bat command which doesn't launch the program.

I have the original Silent Files which are located on an antique 5.5" Floppy Disks which i cannot access.

Thank you very much for your help. I

Then it seems your files are incomplete. Any other *.exe or *.com file in there?

I Have 4 files.I do not have a .com

Install.exe
i do have a ss2.exe
s.bat
silent.bat

Do you know anyone who has this program?

So maybe the silent.bat has an error.
Can you copy/paste the content?

Here is the content.

Yes I have also tried to load the other exe and .bat files. The only other file that launches is the Install.exe. That command tries to install the program on another folder. All it does is create a folder called MPS- Then i get an error message and the folder MPS is empty.

Sorry, misunderstanding, I meant please copy/paste the text of silent.bat 😉

dparadise wrote:

When i type in C:\>SILENT.BAT I get an error message :
C:\> SS2 VGA IBM 720
Illegal command: SS2

The OP has already described (sort of) what's in the batch file, which agrees with the 17-byte file size (15 plus assumed CR and LF characters at the end of the line) in the directory listing.

There should be an SS2.COM or SS2.EXE file, but it is apparently missing. If the game installation worked in the past then the executable has subsequently gone missing. Maybe it was deleted or quarantined by anti-virus software on the host, either because of actual virus or false positive -- not saying that's what happened, just an example of something that might have happened, and probably not likely for a Mac anti-virus to worry about a DOS virus. 😉

Ripsaw look at the screenshots:
- in the directory listing there IS a ss2.exe
- in the error message it says: illegal command: SS2.
So I thought it might go wrong there

Ah, but it's not in the DIR listing in DOSBox according to the screenshot, so apparently DOSBox doesn't "see" the executable in the host filesystem somehow, or is otherwise disregarding it for some reason. Or... maybe the host file list is not the same folder that's mounted in DOSBox...

Why are 3/4s of the files identified as "Unix Executable File" (regardless of their content/extension) and the rest are misc/"document"... might be a permissions/ownership issue.

Ripsaw, the ss2.exe is in the folder and in the mounted file. Does the file order matter? I don’t think so. What do you make of the VGA comment? I tried lower monitor resolutions down to 640, but no difference ?

Dominus, how do I print out the text of the bat file?

It's a textfile, open it in the mac text editor.

According to your screenshot, when you do a DIR command in DOSBox the SS2.EXE file is not listed. That implies that DOSBox can't see the file even if it is there. As jmarsh pointed out, the "type" on the files in the list is strange. Note that INSTALL.EXE, which is visible to DOSBox, is of a document type, but SS2.EXE is of a Unix executable type and is apparently not visible to DOSBox. I'm not sure how that happens or if you can change it... I'm not a Mac person.

Ripsaw: Yes. The SS2.exe file IS in the folder.. See My Attachments above. There are 2 screen shots of the folder NOT 1. See the last file in the UPPER screen shot.

Dominus: I opened the Silent.bat File with the text editor.. See attached.

it contains exactly the error message??