VOGONS


First post, by ClaudeVernier

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Hello,

I have tried for years to make this old game work on XP, Vista, Seven... I've just started to use DosBox, (great tool !!), I wasn't able to make it work with DosBox but I had different behaviors on Seven and its XPMode.

So, I thought that maybe, I could find someone here interested in making this game work !!!

To introduce it, it is an old dos game, it takes us back to the age of exploration with big ships travelling into uncharted waters, exchange goods, declare wars and do piracy !!! šŸ˜€

If anyone here knows this game, I'd be happy to share information, I currently have the original CD and an image.

Thanks for reading,
Claude šŸ˜€

Reply 1 of 8, by Dominus

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Let's start with the 60 seconds guide 60 seconds guide to getting your game to run in DOSBox
Follow that and post where you run into problems and describe the problems. This means you should give us all the commands you entered in dosbox and what the result of the commands were.

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
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Reply 2 of 8, by joedaman55

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mount c "c:\oldgames"

mount d "d:\" -t cdrom

C:\

D:\

dir /w

Directory of D:\
$Recycle Bin <DIR> 11-01-2012 12:34
5AAA66~1 <DIR> 21-01-2012 2:15
SYSTEM~1 <DIR> 07-11-2011 23:48
0 File(s) 0 Bytes.
3 Dur(s) 0 Bytes free.

Thats the directory I am getting when trying the install from the post. I can install from the install.exe file from the cd saved in "oldgames." Once installed after mounting d drive I still get same error message "Wrong CD". I have tried mounting the cd drive and I am not sure if it is reading the disc or what the problem may be.

Trying to get this game working for my Grandpa before work kicks in. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you.

Reply 3 of 8, by Dominus

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Mount your actual CD Rom drive as D. You are mounting a hard drive as d. Your actual CD Rom (or more likely DVD Rom drive) is probably not d:/ but some other drive letter.
The guide does mention that.

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
60 seconds guide to DOSBox
DOSBox SVN snapshot for macOS (10.4-11.x ppc/intel 32/64bit) notarized for gatekeeper

Reply 4 of 8, by fronzel

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Yeah if you see something like Recycle bin you can be sure it's not a CD, look in explorer what drive letter your CD really has and change "d:\" to that.

Reply 5 of 8, by joedaman55

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Sorry about that Dom. Alright the new error I am getting with the installation of this game. I mount my c drive and mount my e drive (cd drive). After that is done I install the game. After installation I enter these commands:

c:\

cd oldgames

explore

Now it acts like it is starting up but now there is only a blank black screen in dosbox. The CD does not have any major scratches. Any help would be much appreciated.

Reply 6 of 8, by Dominus

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if you kept these mountings (and replaced with e:\)

mount c "c:\oldgames"

mount d "e:\" -t cdrom

then what you are doing is odd.
The folder c:\dosgames on your REAL hard drive becomes the root of the emulated hard drive in DOSbox. So there shouldn't be a dosgames folder found in Dosbox (unless you now have c:\dosgames\dosgames) on your REAL hard drive now.
blankscreen is odd, don't know what's up with that.

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
60 seconds guide to DOSBox
DOSBox SVN snapshot for macOS (10.4-11.x ppc/intel 32/64bit) notarized for gatekeeper

Reply 7 of 8, by joedaman55

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Sorry Dominus I have been mounting on e:\

I have messed around with this game a little bit when I get off of work and all I get is the blank screen. Not sure if anyone else has had success getting it to work. If there is another DosBox version I would appreciate if Exploration gets addresses.

Thanks for your guys' responses.

Reply 8 of 8, by wd

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There won't be anything addressed because your mountings seem plain mixed up.