Hmm, works just fine for me with default dosbox config. I did have to rename the .exe file though, but after that the game worked just fine.

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Matias_MP wrote:

I have tried changing the filename of the .exe file in Windows but it still remains the same in Dosbox.

If you were running DOSBox already at that time when you renamed the file in Windows, then you'd need to either refresh the disk cache in DOSBox ("rescan" command), or just restart DOSBox. The change should then be visible.

Ahaa, alright, thanks for replies. I am quite sure I get the game working with these advice 😀 I try at weekend, now I'm at work.

I actually have a similar problem with a few Finnish games. They use the Scandinavian characters in the filenames of the game's data so renaming doesn't help.

For those games, you'd need a hex-editor to change the names to something that DOSBox does support.

Hi. Ok, now I managed to get the dir folder of Ryssan kauhu open but dosbox gives error shown in this attached picture. Any advice? Is it this hex editor? Thanks!

FILE ryssa does NOT exist. It's a directory. You want to cd ryssa 😉

Pardon, what do you mean with cd?

Change directory.
I presume you want to do that and either list the files there or start the game.

Yes but I think that is the problem, I tried to put command 'dir Ryssa'. This 'Ryssa' is a folder. In that folder there is Ryssa.exe, which I would like to start.

By the way, how do I open this .exe file, do I just type it or is there some command like dir coming before Ryssa.exe?

No, there is no problem.
The dir command only lists the files in the current directory. "dir ryssa" is not supposed to work.
You need to do
cd ryssa
ryssa.exe

Matias_MP wrote:

Does someone happen to know how to make this sigma in dosbox? Normal alt + something commands haven't worked so far. Copy-paste from Microsoft Word didn't work either.

You probably need to select the proper codepage.
MS-DOS predates unicode and all those fancy character sets.
By default it starts with codepage 437: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437
In Europe, codepage 850 was more common (but perhaps they used yet another one in Finland, perhaps 865? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_865): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_850

I'm not sure how good Dosbox' support is for this, but normally you can load the codepage in config.sys via the country-statement: http://www.vfrazee.com/ms-dos/6.22/help/country.htm

Downloading the game from here gives you a ZIP file with the main executable's file name ("RYSSÄ.EXE") encoded as code page 437 or 850 (both were commonly used in Finland at the time and handle Finnish text the same). Unzipping this with Windows 7's built-in ZIP extraction produces the expected file name, at least as far as Windows is concerned.

However, judging by this thread, DOSBox doesn't support non-ASCII file names. As mentioned above, the work-around of renaming the EXE outside DOSBox works fine. Incidentally, you can apparently delete GRAPH.BAK as well; it's merely a duplicate of GRAPH.DAT and the game doesn't appear to ever use it.

As for the other problem, "dir RYSSA" would work fine if you had a directory called "RYSSA" in your working directory. "dir" only lists the contents of a directory, it doesn't change the working directory (as seen before the greater-than sign in the command prompt). You need to type "cd <directory>" to enter the directory. Based on your screenshot, the game is in e:\pelit\ryssa, so, assuming you renamed the game to "RYSSA.EXE" you should enter:

1E:
2cd PELIT
3cd RYSSA
4RYSSA

Okay, thanks a lot for replies! I think I get the game started now 😀