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DosBox 0.74 Running KQ III on a Mac Unable to Save

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First post, by cek1313

Posted on 2013-07-26, 22:18

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Hello!

I recently downloaded King's Quest games of old to play on my Mac - although I have used Dosbox to mount a C: as my user\name\folder, when I go to save a game in the dosbox emulated version of KQ III, I am consistently told that "C: is full" so it does not save. I am not even sure I am directing it to the appropriate path to save the game since there is no C: obviously on a MAC (unless I suppose I named my HD that). So at any rate I am not sure what to do, specifically in DosBox, to get the game to be able to save.

Any ideas? This board was referred to me by a friend and he had some great things to say!

Reply 1 of 6, by bloodbat

Posted on 2013-07-26, 22:52

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Why post twice?

Reply 2 of 6, by Jorpho

Posted on 2013-07-26, 23:36

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Did you follow the 60 Seconds Guide ? If the King's Quest EXE file is in the user\name\folder that you mounted as C and not a subfolder of that folder, that might cause the problem. It is also possible that DOSBox does not have write permissions for whatever that folder is.

Reply 3 of 6, by collector

Posted on 2013-07-27, 00:29

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cek1313 wrote:
I recently downloaded King's Quest games of old

From GOG or Steam?

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Reply 4 of 6, by cek1313

Posted on 2013-07-27, 12:22

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Sorry posting twice was by accident - browser quit - anyway its from Steam. Also the .exe file resides on the desktop and the folder I am trying to create is in the username folder - same as desktop...

Does that help?

Reply 5 of 6, by collector

Posted on 2013-07-27, 16:57

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It should just save it in the game's folder, as long as you have write permissions to that folder. Don't try to browse to another folder. Just give the save a name. BTW, how did you unpack the game? Did the installer work with WINE?

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Reply 6 of 6, by IIGS_User

Posted on 2013-07-28, 05:47

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Not to jump in, but have you tried to run this game within ScummVM already?

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