what is inside that bat file ?

1type redstorm.bat

echo off
cd \c:\dosgames\rsr
REDSTORM %1 %2 %3 %4 %5
cd \
echo on

MasterChief wrote:

I have tried different cpu speeds from 50 to 125 cycles.

why this range? I don't think I've seen a single game that requires such obscenely low cycle counts (and I've tried many, many games that target the earliest and slowest systems supported by DOSBox).

are you sure it isn't just stalling due to this exterme slowness that you're forcing on it? try a cycles value somewhere in the thousands.

It looks as if you got confused at some point and either installed the game in Windows or messed up and had some strange mountings at some point.
Please give us your mount commands and we can work it out.

I did try the higher speeds. They didn't work either. I went to the 50 -125 as that was the speeds of my computers when I ran the 386, 486 and the P5 when I played the game.

Please your exact mountings AND the output of the dir command in Dosbox.

I installed DOSBox .074. I click on the the desktop icon and the dos window comes up. At "Z:\" I type in "mount c c:\" I cd to c then type in "mount a a:\ -t floppy". Then I get that the "a" drive is loaded. I cd to the "a" drive and I can read the directory of the "a" (Red Storm Rising). I type in "install" and the game is installed to my c:\dosgames directory. I then cd to that dir and type in redstormbat and then I get the cursor with C\>REDSTORM and then C:\>echo off.
That's what I do and that's what I get.

so the part in your first post isn't true anymore?

I did the modification that when DOSBox is selected that the c:\dosgames is auto mounted.

I did that later. It was a step that bypasses the the step of mounting c:\dosgames folder from the z promt everytime I start DOSBox.
Is the bat file telling it to go some where other than the c:\dosgames\rsr folder?
That's what I can't figure out.

Yes, you switched mount c commands after installing, that's your problem.
So please tell me your EXACT mount commands you give NOW.
Or alternatively use 'mount c c:/' instead of what you are doing and then start your game. It should run then.

1) I select DOSBox icon on desktop.
2)This is the read out on the screen:
Z:\set blaster= A220 I7 D1 H5 T6
Z:\mount c c:\dosgames
Drive C is mounted as local directory C:\dosgames\
Z:\>c:
C:\>_ I type in redstorm
C:\>redstorm
C:\>echo off
_ Blinking cursor and nothing happens.

I have to X out of DOSBox to quit.

You can try to edit the redstorm.bat as

echo off
cd \c:\rsr
REDSTORM %1 %2 %3 %4 %5
cd \
echo on

Or don't mount c:/dosgames but c:/
Your problem is that when you installed the game in Dosbox c:/ was your real c:/ but later c:/ in dosbox is your real c:/dosgames

Using Windows 10 and D-Fend Reloaded and DosBox 0.74: Red Storm Rising is in c:\rsr. I mount the c:\rsr as c and it says ""unable to change to \rsr." If I change the file to be run from redstorm.bat (same as above poster) to redstorm.com and put REDSTORM %1 %@ %3 %4 %5 in the parameters line in D-Fend, it says Drive c is mounted as c:\rsr but I just see a blinking cursor.

Using DosBox alone: MOUNT c c:\rsr. MOUNT a c:\rsr -t floppy (game needed floppy for security check). c: (changes from z: to c:) REDSTORM. Just flashing cursor. Used to work with D-Fend Reloaded, DosBox 0.74 and Windows XP machine with a real a: drive. Windows 10 doesn't support a: drives anymore.