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First post, by Capt Frizzo

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I am trying to get Are You Afraid of the Dark to work in DOSbox, finally got to the install program for the game but when it asks which drive to install to, my only options are A:, B:, and Z:, none of which will work.

So is there a way to add drives or something? still not very good yet with DOSBox as I usually run games through a front end, but this one is being particularly difficult. Any help is appreciated.

-->Windows Vista, DOSBox 0.73 if that helps

Reply 1 of 6, by Qbix

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use 0.74 and post your mount lines

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Reply 2 of 6, by Capt Frizzo

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oh Wait well now it works on my latest retry, I guess I forgot to mount the C drive the first time that i got the "INSTALL" to work?

Anyway thanks for the quick response but heres my process just in case:

Z:\>mount c "C:\dosbox\dos games"

Z:\>c:

C:\>imgmount e "C:\dosbox\dos games\are you afraid of the dark\afraid.iso" -t iso

C:\e:

E:\install

<installed to C:>

now to see if the actual game works...

Reply 3 of 6, by Capt Frizzo

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Well bad news I got the files to install but now I cannot get the .bat to work. Here are my lines:
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Z:\>mount c "C:\dosbox\dos games"

Z:\>mount e e:\ -t cdrom

Z:\>C:

C:\>cd VNM

C:\VNM\>cd afraid

C:\VNM\AFRAID\>afraid
Illegal Command: E:\AFRAID

"
Not sure what else to do here. I'm wondering if it is because the original game ran off a disk and I'm mixing up commands between running a cd rom and an .iso file, which I only have the iso for now.

Reply 4 of 6, by Dominus

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you need to mount the image as you did when you installed the game.
imgmount e "C:\dosbox\dos games\are you afraid of the dark\afraid.iso" -t iso

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Reply 5 of 6, by Capt Frizzo

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Thanks, seems to be working now. Can't believe I didn't try that before. Now hopefully since I'm a little more experienced I'll see if I can get any other great games to work. Thanks!!

Reply 6 of 6, by Dominus

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Good luck 😀
Btw. prefer to mount the cd rom to d, some games might expect the cd rom to be there. O fcourse don't do this for this game now, since it expects now e:/ 😉

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