First post, by Queen K Juul
I am trying to play the game Hi-Octane over my LAN between a MS-DOS 6.22 486 and a 98SE Pentium 3. On the 486, the game is running great, and I've installed the 1.2 patch in addition to Netware client, and I find the "Enable Network" option in the settings and activate it.
On Windows 98, though, the game doesn't run. The intro video plays, then I get a blue screen requesting "insert diskette for Drive B:" - problem is, this machine has no drive B:, and it requests Drive B: no matter where I install the game - C:, D:, or from the CDROM (F:) - every time it asks for a diskette in B:, and then the "disk read error abort, retry, fail" until I ctrl-alt-delete and kill the game.
I know some games save the expected CD drive to a file, but I couldn't find anything to that effect for this game.
Does anyone know what's going on?
Unfortunately I don't believe there exist DOS/Netware drivers for the RTL8169 which is in my P3 rig, so I don't think I'll have luck getting the LAN running in pure DOS mode, but I can't get the game running at all in 98 right now. I've looked into Dali/IPXbox, if I can get a packet driver, would Dali let me run the Netware NetBIOS TSR, and then could play the game over the network? Or do I need the full Netware client stack? I can't find a manual for the game and I don't understand how NetBIOS is supposed to work.
