Give us more information.
Give us all your mountings, the drive number of your Cd-Rom and best start by following the 60seconds guide 😉

Note: my OS is in portuguese, so I need to translate. Sorry if my work is not perfect.

I used to have the CD in the picture I attached to the post but it is long useless to misuse and bad storage (what is really a shame, because I really loved Strike Commander). I am using a downloaded source that works perfectly fine (execpt for the no save).
I DO KNOW that vogons dont support piarcy/abandonware, but I did buy the game back in the day... :'( (and i really, REALLY want to clear the Atlantic Accelerator to beat the game, the last stage of the game). I got this image from: REMOVED
Please dont ignored my plea just for this detail. I know i'm just being stupid about something simple... 😁

Anyway, the folder with the game is in:
D:\dos\syndicate
I've created a SAVE folder like some people said to do to fix this. Path: D:\dos\syndicate\SAVE
I've changed the write permissions for all registered users to the entire syndicate folder (Properties > Security > Authenticaded users > Full control).

As for mounting the images, I tried:
mount d d:\dos\syndicate
d:
synd.exe
//works sounds and flickering, but no save

I also tried mounting the image with:
mount d d:\dos\syndicate -t cdrom
but still no deal on the save feature.

But here is something that I just realized as I was writing this response:
After the game launches, a new message appears on the console:
"DOSBox switched to max cycles, because of the setting: cycles = auto. Is the game runs too fast try a fixed cycles amount in DOSBox's options."
But here's the thing:
After finishing the sound configuration and choosing which game I'll play (there are 2 choices: Syndicate or American Revolution) a NEW MESSAGE SHOWS UP on console:
"SHELL: redirect output to nul"

I guess I finally found the source of my problems, but still no idea on how to fix it.
//Aaaaaaaaand I just read somewhere that this line might be related to //sound output :'(

My system configuration:
Windows 7 Professional 64 bits
DOSBox 0.74 (downloaded from official DOSBox webpage)
CPU: AMD FX-8150 3.6GHz
RAM: 4GB DDR3 1600MHz (Model: F3-12800CL9-4GBSR)
//is there anything missing?

THX!

edit: removed link to site

works fine for me 😀 Do this:
mount c d:\dos
c:
cd syndicate
synd.exe

When you save *it* will make a new folder in the virtual C:\ (c:\Dos on your real hard drive) named synd.

Btw. that in the zip is not an image, it is a rip of the CD.
Also if you know our stance against warez/abandonware why do you have the nerve and link to such a site?

Dominus wrote:

Also if you know our stance against warez/abandonware why do you have the nerve and link to such a site?

Despair? Hope? Stupidness?
Anyway, I removed the link.

Man, I still have no idea on what magic you worked there, but now the save is working! 🤣
I usually just say a tysvm, but you deserve the whole THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH! You're awesome! 😜

Since I foresee a chance of this hapenning again when I decide to play my old Lucas Arts Adventures (Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atantlis and many others), can you please explain what I was doing wrong?

THANK YOU!

In this case, I think the game is supposed to be played from the cdrom and it saves to c:/synd. But you didn't mount anything as c:
So it failed to save there.
Always have a c:/ drive. Always 😉

Got it!
Thx for the help 😁

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Bronnergus wrote:

Since I foresee a chance of this hapenning again when I decide to play my old Lucas Arts Adventures (Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atantlis and many others), can you please explain what I was doing wrong?

Try ScummVM with the games mentioned here to not have to fiddle around with DOS emulation.

IIGS_User wrote:

Try ScummVM with the games mentioned here to not have to fiddle around with DOS emulation.

Yeah, I already knew about it and was thinking about using it first place, but anyway, I still dont know why when I was emulating on D it was not saving. Neither what this line:
cd syndicate
means. Can you tell me?

Because when you can't save to a cd-rom. When you emulate that the game is on CD and there is no other harddrive,it can't save.
And no matter waht the game seems to have hardcoded to save to c:/synd. HARDCODED
And the command cd means "change directory".

Ok. I'll work on understanding your info 😁
Thank you so very much! (again ^^ )