Use the CD?

It does the same for the .iso I have when I mount it.

As I said, it recognises the cd and installs it as well, and when I play the game straight after it was installed it runs perfectly, the only problem I get is when I close dosbox and try to relaunch the game, albeit with the same setup as before, it doesn't recognize the cd anymore.

again, why don't you use the CD? And if there are audio trakcs on the CD which might provide some means for copy protection, an iso of the CD is not enough since the iso format doesn't support audio tracks. You need a bin/cue of the CD then.
And also when you play the game, did you keep the *EXACT* same mountings as when you installed the game? Both mountings for c and d are important.

Ah, I see. Well, the problem is that I don't have the cd anymore, so the only thing i have is the .iso. I don't have a bin/cue file either.

And, yes, the settings I used were EXACTLY the same for the installation and then when I restarted it. Did it several times. Mounted the .iso/the files as cd on a d: drive and then the game in my c:

How would you suggest I go about getting that bin/cue?

Buy the game is the only advice that is legit

Gabinho wrote:

As I said, it recognises the cd and installs it as well, and when I play the game straight after it was installed it runs perfectly, the only problem I get is when I close dosbox and try to relaunch the game, albeit with the same setup as before, it doesn't recognize the cd anymore.

Generally, the only reason this might happen is if you don't mount things exactly the same way when you close DOSBox and try to relaunch the game.

Maybe you can say exactly what you are typing in DOSBox in both instances?

If all else fails, a full, legitimate copy of the game is indeed cheaply obtainable from GOG.com.

And yes, Jorpho is right, when it only happens on relaunch but plays well right after installation, everything points to a user error.
Hmm, either you edited your post or I was too sleep deprived to correctly read this the first time

hm. well, here's what I always do:

z:\>mount c: c:\dosgames\

z:\>mount d: c:\dosgames\jacd -t cdrom
(jacd is the folder to which I copied the cd files. I tried the .iso as well:
z:\>imgmount d: c:\dosgames\jaggedalliance.iso -t iso with the same result)

for install it's

d:
d:\install

for playing it's

c:
c:\jagged\ja

I've done that about 10 times now, because I was assuming I did something wrong in the beginning, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I thought about buying the copy at gog.com but wasn't sure if it's not gonna fuck up as well... what format does it come in?

Hm ok, I think I figured it out.

When restarting dosbox, I mounted c: as c:\dosgames\jagged instead of just c:\dosgames

that did the trick. Weird. Anyone know why?

Still, thanks for your advice.

Gabinho wrote:

for playing it's

c:
c:\jagged\ja

Don't ever do that. You need to type

1c:
2cd jagged
3ja

If you use "c:\jagged\ja", the game tries to run "ja.exe" in the directory "c:" instead of in "c:\jagged", and so it fails when it tries to look in the current directory for the other files it needs. Many programs behave this way.

The reason it probably worked after you used the install program is that the install program probably did "cd jagged" for you.