First post, by Munx
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- Oldbie
So here is the story.
Some games, namely Doom, Duke3D and Quake run ok on a 5x85 build of mine when running in Windows. However when I restart into DOS mode, certain files become invisible and I am unable to launch these games.
First I though this was a bad CF card, so I switched to a new one. That didn't work, so I assumed the controller just didn't like CF cards, so I switched to a real hard drive, but I'm still getting the same problem. They are all formatted with a w98 startup disk into FAT16.
I forget which file Doom cannot find, but Quake gets an error "W_LoadWadFile: couldn't load GFX.wad", Duke 3D is "Could not find group file 'DUKE3D.GRP' ". Duk3ed will also start up just fine after installing the game, but will not find Duke3d.grp after a restart.
I had a similar issue quite a while ago with another 486 PC too, but I put that project to the side.
Can anyone advise me on what I'm doing wrong here? Maybe I did not set up the hard drive correctly?
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