VOGONS


First post, by mcearnie

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Hi, I'm in the hospital for a couple of days and only have my old netbook with me, so I thought it would be a good time to play some old Dos Games. I installed Dos Box, but now I'm stuck.

After mounting the directory, I go to the folder of the game. Typing dir *.exe I get a couple of exe files. gamename.exe, install.exe and two others. When I type install, nothing happens. When I type the name of the game, nothing happens. Just a new line with the path appears. No crash, no loading, no errormessage, no nothing. So what do I do wrong? Game is compatible to Dosbox, tried other games to, always the same thing. I even tried a Frontend, but same thing.

So I hope someone can help me out here.

Greetz,
mcearnie

Reply 1 of 2, by leileilol

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If it says "This program cannot run in DOS mode." it's for Windows.

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long live PCem

Reply 2 of 2, by Jorpho

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What version of DOSBox are you running? What version of Windows are you running, for that matter?

Can you specify what games you are trying to run? What happens if you try to run them in Windows directly?