That message means what it says: you don't have a dosprog directory on your actual C drive. Note the part that says "C:\dosprog\ is an example. Replace it with your own games directory."

Snover wrote:

That message means what it says: you don't have a dosprog directory on your actual C drive. Note the part that says "C:\dosprog\ is an example. Replace it with your own games directory."

Well, what IS my games directory?

I don't know! It's your computer, not mine. 😀 I don't know where you put things.

Well, how do I figure it out?

Do you have a directory you already use to install your DOS games into? If so, mount that. If not, create one.

Final Unity is the only dos game I have! How am I supposed to "create a directory"? You have to understand that I only have a low average iq! I am not a gifted genious like you! You must be patient w/ me! I didn't know I wasn't supposed to "cross-post" here, either! I did that because I did not know what else to do!

1. Drag mouse cursor to your "START" Button, and left click on it.
2. Drag mouse cursor to "RUN" and left click on it.
3. Type in "CMD" and press ENTER or RETURN.
4. A Black window should open up saying something like "C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\" with a blinking cursor.
5. Type in CD \ and press ENTER or RETURN.
6. type in "MD DOSGAMES" and press ENTER OR RETURN
7. Close the black window by dragging your mouse cursor to the "X" in the upper-right-hand side of the black window.
8. Drag your mouse cursor to your "START" button again and left click on it.
9. Drag your mouse cursor to the "Programs" or "All Program" entry in the start menu.
10. Navigate the start menu to "DosBox".
11. Left click on "DOSBOX.CONF"
12. A new window should pop up titled "DOSBOX.CONF - NOTEPAD".
13. Drag your mouse cursor to the right-hand side of this window and drag the vertical rectangular bar to the bottom of the screen by left clicking on it, holding down the left mouse button, and dragging the rectangular bar to the bottom of the window.
14. In the Notepad window you should see a "[autoexec]" section.
15. Make the "[autoexec]" section look like this:

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount c c:\DOSGAMES -freesize 999
mount d d:\ -t cdrom
c:

17. Close the NOTEPAD window by dragging your mouse to the upper-right hand side of the window and left-clicking on the "X" with your mouse.
18. Drag your mouse to the "START" button, left-click on it, Go to "Programs" or "All Programs", Navigate the menu to "DosBox" and click on the "DosBox" entry with the brown icon with yellow "DosBox" text.

TO BE CONTINUED.
Someone with the game will have to continue from here.

19.

WOW! This is a lot to take in. I have to look it over, but
>15. Make the "[autoexec]" section look like this:
What should that "[autoexec]" section look like? Is that in #16 what it should look like?

Reading this is like a really bad tooth extraction at the dentist - never ending pain 😀

Anyways, about the original error (CD-ROM speed), you'll see that error if you haven't mounted your CD-ROM inside DOSBox correctly. Just to reiterate and add to some of DosFreak's post....

Taken from line 85 of the DOSBox 0.65 readme (open in Notepad and press Crtl-G):

- mount d f:\ -t cdrom

where in the command:
- d driveletter you will get in DOSBox
- f:\ location of cdrom on your PC (i.e. this will almost certainly need changing)

Once in DOSBox as per DosFreak's steps, go to your CD-ROM and run the game installer:

d:
install

If you've confgured your CD-ROM drive correctly you'll be able to pass the game pre-installation checks and install the game. Soundblaster autodetect worked fine and I chose the max resolution with max colours without VESA driver and that also worked (may not be the best choice depending on your hardware...).

> What should that "[autoexec]" section look like?

That's the part past the : until the 17 (that is point 16 if you want so).
If you are at step 15, that is have the dosbox.conf opened in some
editor, go all the way down and you'll see a line containing
[autoexec]
which marks the section of commands that dosbox auto-executes when
it starts up.

If there are any questions/odd things when going through DosFreak's
step by step instructions, re-read it and try to figure it out (you'll learn
a lot by this), if you can't get it working just ask here again.

I don't believe this. Just like some people should never be allowed to drive, others should never be allowed to touch a keyboard.

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Reading this is like a really bad tooth extraction at the dentist - never ending pain 😀

Anyways, about the original error (CD-ROM speed), you'll see that error if you haven't mounted your CD-ROM inside DOSBox correctly. Just to reiterate and add to some of DosFreak's post....

Taken from line 85 of the DOSBox 0.65 readme (open in Notepad and press Crtl-G):

- mount d f:\ -t cdrom

where in the command:
- d driveletter you will get in DOSBox
- f:\ location of cdrom on your PC (i.e. this will almost certainly need changing)

Once in DOSBox as per DosFreak's steps, go to your CD-ROM and run the game installer:

d:
install

If you've confgured your CD-ROM drive correctly you'll be able to pass the game pre-installation checks and install the game. Soundblaster autodetect worked fine and I chose the max resolution with max colours without VESA driver and that also worked (may not be the best choice depending on your hardware...).

Thanks, I have managed to mount the cd-rom, and as I have said in an earlier post on this thread, it ran smoothly, until I got this. Then, I could not continue, as again, I don't know how to mount my c drive in order to complete it. See here.

wd wrote:

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> What should that "[autoexec]" section look like?

That's the part past the : until the 17 (that is point 16 if you want so).
If you are at step 15, that is have the dosbox.conf opened in some
editor, go all the way down and you'll see a line containing
[autoexec]
which marks the section of commands that dosbox auto-executes when
it starts up.

If there are any questions/odd things when going through DosFreak's
step by step instructions, re-read it and try to figure it out (you'll learn
a lot by this), if you can't get it working just ask here again.

Thanks, you are a lot more patient then, when I e-mailed the dosbox people, they really gave me a hard time, they got annoyed and did not want to answer anymore questions from me, even though they are the creators. Their attitude reminds me much of:

MiniMax wrote:

I don't believe this. Just like some people should never be allowed to drive, others should never be allowed to touch a keyboard.

MiniMax, WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BE MORE UNDERSTANDING THAT NOT EVERYONE HAS THE SAME ABILITIES AS YOU????????? 😠

Well VOGONS is not a hand holding forum. We will help if we have to (we're not total bastards 😀 ), but we are really more focused on fixing actual DosBox problems. Our focus is not to help people to perform very simple tasks. If the command line is too much for you (typing in things), there are frontends for dosbox (Graphical interfaces where you don't have to type in things), which I'm told significantly improve the user friendliness of DosBox.

The frontends are:
DFEND
DOG
DBGL

If you click on the "DosBox CVS Builds" in my signature and go all the way to the bottom you'll see a link to "DBGL", I don't remember the sites for the other frontends but you can find those using www.google.com.

If you want a more noobie friendly forum (although ALOT dumber....HONESTLY), you can visit the abandonia or dosgames forum.

> MiniMax, WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BE MORE UNDERSTANDING

Well he IS quite helpful all over the forums here, it's just that every
single detail in this thread has already been posted several times
(in other threads), so it's a bit boring to have to repeat things.

Anyways, as far as i can see you still haven't mounted the drives
correctly (except for the cdrom). Go into the windows file explorer,
and create a folder on the C drive called "dosgames". This folder
will be, for the emulator, your c-drive where you can install games to.

Now you got two possibilities, either the one from DosFreak by extending
the autoexec section, or by doing something similar to what you did
for the cdrom mounting.
For the 2nd choice, i assume you typed something like "mount d e:\ -t cdrom"
to mount your cdrom (drive E). In much the same way now type
"mount c c:\dosgames" and see if it succeeds.

Now independently from your choice how to mount the c-drive:
before starting the installer, type in the dosbox window
"MOUNT"
without any parameters, there should now be a line like
Drive C is mounted as local directory "C:\dosgames"
If it appears like that, change to your cdrom drive and start the
installer again.

If you still can't get the mounting correct, try DosFreak's suggestion of
using a frontend.

I do NOT understand any of this! Maybe I am just not smart and that's why a lot of people do not have patience for me! 😠 I have tried the dosgmes forums, but I got no response. Maybe I am too stupid for them as well! 🙁 😢 And, I don't expect this to be a "hand-holding" forum! I know this is not therapy! I am just frustrated 'cause I don't know what to do! It SHOULD be a simple thing, yes, but for some reason, for me it is too beyond my realm of understanding! I don't know why! I know all of you take this stuff for granted, like breathing, but for me, I just can't explain why I can't get it!

Well it's really hard to make any suggestions to "i don't know what to do".
As you got the installer to start up, you're quite far already. As you can
see from the selection menu, something's missing (therefore it only gives
you the possibility to install to Z: ).
Now did you create some directory on your harddisk which would serve
as emulated c-drive? Next did the mounting of that directory work?
At last, what did the installer tell now?

If there's some problem, please be as precise as possible (like "when i typed
mount c c:\dosgames it said c is already mounted).

wd wrote:

Well it's really hard to make any suggestions to "i don't know what to do". As you got the installer to start up, you're quite f […]
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Well it's really hard to make any suggestions to "i don't know what to do".
As you got the installer to start up, you're quite far already. As you can
see from the selection menu, something's missing (therefore it only gives
you the possibility to install to Z: ).
Now did you create some directory on your harddisk which would serve
as emulated c-drive? Next did the mounting of that directory work?
At last, what did the installer tell now?

If there's some problem, please be as precise as possible (like "when i typed
mount c c:\dosgames it said c is already mounted).

I say, "I don't know what to do!", because I really don't! It's hard even for me to put into words a lot of the itme! I will try to explain this as best I can: When I typed "mount c c:\dosgames", it said "c:\dosgames doesn't exist."!

Ok, in the mount command the 2nd parameter (that is in your case the
c:\dosgames ) has to be a directory that exists. As it tells you it doesn't
exist, you have to create it.
Go into the windows explorer. On the left tree-view, you have things like
Desktop, My Documents and so on. Under My Computer there are all
your drives (like the floppy, the hard drives etc).
If you're there, look for a drive that has a C: after the name, and klick on
it, then it should expand and you can see all the directories. Now klick
on the File item on the menu, then New and Folder. This creates a new
folder on that drive, name it dosgames.
Try again the mounting now.

wd wrote:

Ok, in the mount command the 2nd parameter (that is in your case the c:\dosgames ) has to be a directory that exists. As it tell […]
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Ok, in the mount command the 2nd parameter (that is in your case the
c:\dosgames ) has to be a directory that exists. As it tells you it doesn't
exist, you have to create it.
Go into the windows explorer. On the left tree-view, you have things like
Desktop, My Documents and so on. Under My Computer there are all
your drives (like the floppy, the hard drives etc).
If you're there, look for a drive that has a C: after the name, and klick on
it, then it should expand and you can see all the directories. Now klick
on the File item on the menu, then New and Folder. This creates a new
folder on that drive, name it dosgames.
Try again the mounting now.

Ok, wd, thanks that DID work w/ making a new folder thru Windows. I managed to mount the c drive, the d cdrom drive, and it installed, but NOW new problem: I can't get the damned sound to work! There is NO sound at all! I am frustrated! I will now look under another thread here that deals w/ this and if I have a problem, I will post there. Oh, and not to mention, the video is kind of slow & choppy.

That thread has absolutely nothing to do with DOSBox.