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Alone in the Dark 1,2,3

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First post, by Atticus

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Hello this be my help topic for this matter
I orderd Alone in the Dark 1-3 *got 3 in mail today yaaaa*
It was so easy get Warcraft 1 to work I didnt think was going be problem but turned out it is

I not vary DOSish but I know a VARY little basic things

There all CD copys and at time need help with 3

As said its CD copy I tryed to just normal thing on the CD and I tryed run it in the Dosbox and neather work in anyway. This being done on my Vista computer Latter I may try on my Win98 computer
Any tips on geting work will be welcome but PLZ be vary dot on when saying anything thx you =)

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Reply 1 of 12, by MiniMax

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Read my 60 Seconds Guide to DOSBox (and don't just read it - follow it too).

If that doesn't help, come back with details on how you mounted your C and D drives, how you did the install, how you configured sound, music etc.

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Reply 2 of 12, by Atticus

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Well 1st problem is in the path "Z:\>mount C "C:\Documents and Settings\your-user-name\My Documents\DOSBox stuff\MyGame"
Where the Documents and Settings come from? going My Documents path doesnt have that <_<
So I did C:\My Documents\DOSBoxstuff\MyGame
and 1st problem happen with that is after the path it says
"Directory C:\My doesn't exist"
and this on my Win 98 as fig was mostlikely to old for my Vista

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Reply 3 of 12, by DosFreak

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Windows 98 doesn't have a "Documents and Settings" folder. IIRC, your profile is stored in your Windows directory.

Just make a directory called "Games" in C:\

Ex: C:\Games

and put your games in it.

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Reply 4 of 12, by MiniMax

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Atticus wrote:

So I did C:\My Documents\DOSBoxstuff\MyGame

Did what? How?

Atticus wrote:

and 1st problem happen with that is after the path it says
"Directory C:\My doesn't exist"

What said that? In response to what command?

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Reply 5 of 12, by Atticus

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I got it work on my win98 now by just doing the game thing in my C drive
Tho vary laggy and takes reallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly long time for things to load
I dont know if load thing is normal but now that know how do it I going try it on my vista in hopes that it be faster *this was done with 2 btw help may still be needed with 1st and 3rd =o*

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Reply 6 of 12, by DosFreak

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Alone in the Dark 1,2 and 3 are real mode games so you'll need to increase the cycles.

Also DOSBox is an emulator so it requires significantly more processing power than the machines the games were originally intended for.

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Reply 7 of 12, by Atticus

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Being why I want work on my Vista
and sadly I ran into two problems

My CD Is E and I have a 2ed Hard drive thats labled "FACTORY IMAGE" as D and its full *I guessing its Vista on it its 9gigs*
Dosbox leted me mount the E and everthing went super UNTIL it was time to start the game typeing AITD2 is what does it but it says

"CD Not Found
0=CDError N
Wrong CD.
Inserez ie disque "Alone In The Dark II" dans le lecteur de CD et Relancez.
Please Insert "Alone In The Dark II" in the drawer and restart"

And again I useing 2 for this at the time

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Reply 8 of 12, by IIGS_User

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Please tell the way you've mounted the CD in DOSBox... 😕

Klimawandel.

Reply 9 of 12, by Atticus

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Maybe time try something else long time ago a Friend gave me a Download of AITD 1 on my Win98 compurter tho sound didnt play the game did
How is this done?

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Reply 10 of 12, by wd

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As you're from the US, could you please try to form correct sentences?
It's quite hard to GUESS what you're actually trying to say.

Reply 11 of 12, by Atticus

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ooooookkkkkkkkkkkkkk
I had a download thing someone gave me

It didnt play sound but it worked and didnt need anything

What was it? and could I get it for 2 and 3 of AITD?

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Reply 12 of 12, by MiniMax

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Read my 60 Seconds Guide to DOSBox (and don't just read it - follow it too).

If that doesn't help, come back with details on how you mounted your C and D drives, how you did the install, how you configured sound, music etc.

Reading the aptly named README file will be a good idea too.

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