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First post, by tbrychcy

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Hello,

I need to run an application called ManCats 1 through dosbox so to run this in full screen mode - system windows is windows 7. When I tre to open up this through dosbox the main mancats's menu runs smoothly. But when i try to dive into functions the system stops working - nothing is run. In the meanwhile when I open the mancats outside the dosbox all is upa and running correctly.

How to fix this problem? I tried to narrow down the root cause but have not found anything. What I tried doing is:

1.running this as an administrator
2. installing dosbox in program files (x86)
3. running dosbox in windows xp mode enabled

Any suggestion would be very appreciate.

best regards,
Tomek

Reply 1 of 4, by tbrychcy

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I found something like:

There are two lines added in the autoexec section of the dosbox options:
1. mount c c:\dosprogs\man_cats
2. c:\diagnose.exe

When dosbox starts with the above conf then there is a problem I described. But when I change the configuration into:
1. mount c c:\dosprogs
2. c:

and run the cd man_cats and run the diagnose then all is doing well.

So, the question is how can I make the first configuration up and running? Where is the problem? I need to run he application automatically via autoexec at startup.

Tomek

Reply 2 of 4, by tbrychcy

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I found the solution.

It is like a dosbox does not "support" nesting in mount command. To make it worked the proper command is:

mount c c:\dosprogs
c:
cd man_cats
diagnose.exe

All i up and running. Maybe someone will find it useful.

However thank you for the forum!

br,
Tomek

Reply 3 of 4, by Dominus

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The solution is the right one, your diagnoses is wrong 😉
The problem is not the fault of Dosbox but that the program man_cats does not like to be run in the root of C:\
When you mount the program folder it becomes c in Dosbox and man_cat doesn't like this.

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Reply 4 of 4, by tbrychcy

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Hello,

You're right 😀.

BR,
Tmek