Hi there, I desperately want to return to the youthfull year of 1994 and play TES:ARENA again after all this time. You all prob. know this wont run on any modern software or machine without DOSBOX. Well I've been a mac user for over a decade now and I don't own a pc to play this (though I am considering buying an old 486 just to play this.) So I've tried to use dosbox on Mac to play the game, but it always says that it needs to be run under WIN32. Like I said, not a pc person, I don't know how that applies to me, but I would love to find out. Any help would be appreciated. My mac is as follows:
Mac OS X 10.4
1.5 GHZ Powerbook G4
1 Gig of DDR RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (64mb)
Yes, I have Bethesda's free version, but I also have the original cd. Subsequently I've tried running both in DOS running under virtual PC 7.0, but I just get the old "not enough EMS." I'll read that guide and give it a shot, thanks.
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The free download works for me in 0.65. The download file (Arena106.exe) is some kind of self-extracting Windows archive, that you can not run inside DOSBox. You need to unpack it first. I use 7-Zip on my Windows - I don't know what you can use on your Mac.
If you can not find a way to unpack the EXE, send me a PM, and I will send you the files in Zip, Tar, Gzip or whatever we can agree on.
Anyway, I unpacked it into a folder called "C-drive" and it created an "Arena" sub-directory inside "C-drive". I mounted "C-drive" as my DOSBox C: drive, changed into the Arena sub-directory and started "Arena.Bat":
1# DOSBox 0.65 configuration for "The Elder Scrolls: Arena" by Bethesda Softworks, 19xx. 2# 3# Free, legal download from http://www.elderscrolls.com/downloads/downloads_games.htm 4# 5# By MiniMax 6 7[cpu] 8core=dynamic 9cycles=10000 10cycleup=1000 11cycledown=1000 12 13[autoexec] 14@ echo off 15 16rem +--------------------------------------------------------------- 17rem ! Mount the virtual harddisk. 18rem +--------------------------------------------------------------- 19 20 mount C "C-drive" 21 22rem +--------------------------------------------------------------- 23rem ! Are we ready to run the game? 24rem +--------------------------------------------------------------- 25 26 if exist C:\Arena\Arena.Bat goto Ready 27 goto Done 28 29:Ready 30 31rem +--------------------------------------------------------------- 32rem ! Switch to the harddisk, and inform the user about which 33rem ! command to use for running the game. 34rem +--------------------------------------------------------------- 35 36 C: 37 cd \Arena 38 echo. 39 echo Type Arena to start the game. 40 goto Done 41 42:Done 43 echo on
You can't use the dynamic core on your Mac, so you might as well comment that out.
Thank you so very much. All I had to do was extract the .exe just like you said. It seems to work just fine. Thanks. And for all you mac users out there "the unarchiver" is the app to extract .exe files with.
