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Problems of running Castle of the Winds

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First post, by OtakuGirl85

Posted on 2013-10-08, 01:36

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I downloaded Castle of the Winds from My Abandonware Games.
Link here (edit by Dominus - removed abandonware link)
I have a Internet friend who knows a lot about emulators but he's European and because of the laws of there he would not give me a file. I have seen this YouTube to video of how to boot the game. Link here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojFQw1IywZs
but on the last step I don't get any screen shots and posting below
[img]C:\Users\Owner\Pictures\DOS%20Box2.png[/img]
sorry I don't know how to post images show me

Reply 1 of 5, by leileilol

Posted on 2013-10-08, 02:09

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Simple: Castle of the Winds is not a DOS game. It requires Windows.

long live PCem

Reply 2 of 5, by mr_bigmouth_502

Posted on 2013-10-08, 05:27

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leileilol wrote:
Simple: Castle of the Winds is not a DOS game. It requires Windows.

This. It's DOSbox people, NOT Winbox. Get it right. 🤣

Reply 3 of 5, by Dominus

Posted on 2013-10-08, 06:15

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First of all, we do not support abandonware here. Since the games are available for free, I'll let it slide, though.

Second, yes, they are Windows games. You cannot run those directly in DOSBox. You can install Windows 3.x in Dosbox and run them in that, though

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Reply 4 of 5, by OtakuGirl85

Posted on 2013-10-08, 15:41

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Where can I download Window 3.x and how doI install it on DOSBox?

Reply 5 of 5, by Dominus

Posted on 2013-10-08, 15:47

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You have to buy Windows 3.x on ebay or something like that. Sometimes copies can be found at the salvation army and similar 😉
Windows 3.x is NOT freeware

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
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