try mounting it on the D: drive instead, cd-rom drives work best being the 'next letter'. A: is for floppies.

On my system I have C: (with windows installed on), D: (harddrive partition) and E: (CD Drive). i tried mounting the creatureshock drive to F: but receive the same message.

Thanks for the suggestion. 😀

EdenShock wrote:

On my system I have C: (with windows installed on), D: (harddrive partition) and E: (CD Drive).

Programs running in DOSBox don't care what your hard drive partitions are. There should not be any problem if you use "mount d E:" in DOSBox.

I get the same message again. Could I have not installed it correctly? If I try to install it from dosbox nothing happens, if I install it from disc the normal way it installs but I get the above message when I try to run it through dosbox. 😐 🙁

EdenShock wrote:

If I try to install it from dosbox nothing happens

You're going to have to go into more detail regarding exactly what you are typing in DOSBox when you try to install the game.

I've completely removed all references to Creature Shock and decided to start again from scratch.

With cd1 in the drive I opened dosbox and mounted the cd using "mount d: e:\ -t cdrom"

Then I switch to d: and type "install". This opens the CreatureShock installation program. Everything looks good and the sounds all work when tested, I hit Install and I now receive a new message

"An error occurred while creating C:\CRSHOCK Please delete the game and re-install"

mount a C drive as well (so 2 mounts)

thanks for the reply. I tried that and now after I hit install it just closes the creatureshock install program and does nothing.

I've tried a few different approaches and have got the game to load but it now crashes when I attempt to play the first mission. What I did to get this far was this...

I copied both cd's to a c:\Dosbox\CRSHOCK, then installed (from disc) to default c:\CRSHOCK. I then copied these new files into the c:\Dosbox\CRSHOCK folder (overwriting when prompted). Then in dosbox I mount c: as usual and then the dosbox\crshock folder as d:, then change to d: and type Shock to load the game. I created a batch file that does all this and makes it more clear.

//batch file
cd..
cd..
cd..
cd dosbox
dosbox -c "mount c c:\dosbox" -c "mount D C:\dosbox\crshock" -c "d:" -c "shock"

I read somewhere that to fix this problem the cycles in dosbox need changing to 40000. I followed that advice and it now works! I havn't got past level 1 yet so I can't say for sure if it all runs now. I updated the batch file to make this change.

//batch file
cd..
cd..
cd..
cd..
cd dosbox
dosbox -c "cycles 40000" -c "mount c c:\dosbox" -c "mount D C:\dosbox\crshock" -c "d:" -c "shock"

"mount d: e:\ -t cdrom"
"mount c c:\dosbox"

thats a lot of cd..'s