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First post, by Kieran11

Posted on 2008-09-10, 13:46

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Hey there,

I've successfully mounted, installed and saved everything according to this guide (http://forum.magicball.net/showthread.php?t=6943) for the game, LBA or Relentless.

Problem is, I start it up and the company logo of Adeline flashes by then the black dos screen appears telling me

No CD

OK.

Any suggestions? The Cd is in the drive ><.

Reply 1 of 11, by MiniMax

Posted on 2008-09-10, 13:53

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Are you using an IBM AS/400 and OS/400 with DOSBox?

Reply 2 of 11, by Qbix

Posted on 2008-09-10, 13:54

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try -noioctl for the mount line for the cdrom. I'm currently debugging LBA2 on that matter

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Reply 3 of 11, by Kieran11

Posted on 2008-09-10, 15:19

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I use a intel macbook with leopard

sadly the -noioctl didn't work

Reply 4 of 11, by wd

Posted on 2008-09-10, 18:15

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use cd images

Reply 5 of 11, by pjpsyco

Posted on 2008-09-10, 22:35

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use lba win instead of dosbox
http://lbawin.akoonet.com/
should fix everything

Reply 6 of 11, by Kieran11

Posted on 2008-09-11, 02:02

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Yes, but I use a mac.

Reply 7 of 11, by collector

Posted on 2008-09-11, 06:08

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Even though I have a Windows box, I had, by far, the best results with the LBA games using BIN/CUEs. Try creating a BIN/CUE of the CD and mount that as your CD in DOSBox.

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Reply 8 of 11, by wd

Posted on 2008-09-11, 06:32

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Collector is this lba1 or lba2 only? I don't remember any problems with
non-imagemounting for the former (at least not for 0.72ff).

Reply 9 of 11, by collector

Posted on 2008-09-11, 07:19

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Specifically the 2nd game. It seemed to address the issues I was having with the 2nd so well that I went ahead and did a BIN/CUE pair for the 1st one, too. Image mount for a CD, especially BIN/CUE often seems to solve CD recognition problems in DOSBox for me.

Reply 10 of 11, by wd

Posted on 2008-09-11, 07:42

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Is it easily reproducable somehow? Like a savegame where the 2nd cd is immediately needed or so?

Reply 11 of 11, by collector

Posted on 2008-09-11, 18:06

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It's been a while since I have fooled around with it, but as I remember, the problem I was having with the 2nd game was randomly rejecting the CD or ISO on scene changes where it had to read the CD, but not always at the same scenes. If it makes a difference, my copy is the American release, Twinsen's Odyssey.

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