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First post, by petr

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Hi!

I've just bought DK from GOG and am tired from running it in a Dosbox on a VM on my iMac. I copied the game-directory from the VM to my user-folder and changed the autoexec-section in my preferences according to the file that gog submitted with the game:

[autoexec] keyb gr mount c "/Users/Bjoern/DOS/DK" imgmount d "/Users/Bjoern/DOS/DK/GAME.INST" -t iso -fs iso […]
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[autoexec]
keyb gr
mount c "/Users/Bjoern/DOS/DK"
imgmount d "/Users/Bjoern/DOS/DK/GAME.INST" -t iso -fs iso

GAME.INST is the disc image containing the files the game needs for the copy-protection. When running Dosbox I get:

Could not load image file: /Users/Bjoern/DOS/DK/GAME.INST
MSCDEX: Failure: Invalid file or unable to open.

What did I do wrong?

Thanks,

Petr

Reply 1 of 8, by wd

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Please post the contents of the original config file as well.

Reply 2 of 8, by Qbix

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check the contents of game.inst and see if the filename (and case) is correct.

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Reply 3 of 8, by petr

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This is the autoexec-section from the gog-file:

[autoexec] # Lines in this section will be run at startup. mount C . imgmount d "game.inst" -t iso -fs iso c: cls Keeper.exe exi […]
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[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount C .
imgmount d "game.inst" -t iso -fs iso
c:
cls
Keeper.exe
exit

Reply 4 of 8, by petr

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I can't mount the disc image on my Mac so I can't take a look "inside", but the same image is mounted successfully on the Windows Dosbox under Virtualbox. The cases are all correct.

Reply 5 of 8, by Qbix

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the INST is just a text file as far as I know

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Reply 6 of 8, by petr

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You're right. This is the content:

FILE "game.gog" BINARY TRACK 01 MODE1/2352 INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "keeper02.ogg" MP3 TRACK 02 AUDIO INDEX 01 00: […]
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FILE "game.gog" BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "keeper02.ogg" MP3
TRACK 02 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "keeper03.ogg" MP3
TRACK 03 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "keeper04.ogg" MP3
TRACK 04 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "keeper05.ogg" MP3
TRACK 05 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "keeper06.ogg" MP3
TRACK 06 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "keeper07.ogg" MP3
TRACK 07 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00

Reply 7 of 8, by Qbix

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and do the files exist as written there ? (all low case!)
(as GAME.INST is uppercase)

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Reply 8 of 8, by petr

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Thanks for your help, I finally managed to solve it: I just mounted the image.gog and now everything's working! 😀