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Problems Running .EXEs

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First post, by watsonj11

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I am trying to run the SETUP.EXE file for the game "The Curse Of Monkey Island" but for some reason every time I try to launch this file DOSBOX automatically inserts the word "win" in front of the words "SETUP.EXE" DOSBOX then returns the error "Illegal Command: win. I am sorry if this is a rather stupid question but I could not find any help on this anywhere, please could someone tell me what I am doing wrong.

Reply 1 of 4, by IIGS_User

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What does your documentation of the game tell about minimum system requirements?

Mobygames/Curse-Of-Monkey-Island

Hint: Try ScummVM instead of DOSBox.

Klimawandel.

Reply 2 of 4, by watsonj11

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system requirements:
OS: Windows 95
CPU: Pentium 90 or faster
Memory: 16MB RAM
CD-ROM: 2X CD-ROM
Graphics Card: PCI Grphics Card
Sound Card: 16-bit sound card
It uses Direct X 5 but I don't think this is the problem, as I said it won't even install
I will try that thanks

Reply 3 of 4, by watsonj11

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Thank you so much it works now 😀

Reply 4 of 4, by Dominus

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just to give you the reason why it didn't work:
Dosbox is for DOS games not Windows games, at least not for Windows 95 and newer Windows games 😀

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