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Old games couldn't find language fonts

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First post, by exec

Posted on 2006-11-22, 07:30

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Hey everyone, it's my first post here.

I was trying to play a chinese old dos games. I tried to play it under WinXP but it just couldn't work. So I searched the internet and found out the emulator DosBox.

I installed it, read the manuals provided by some DOS enthusiasts on the internet, and I ran it. Successful..erm..should I call it a success? The games seemed to run, but at the end of the loading, it had this message

"Loading chinese fonts error!"

Then the loading stopped.

Anyone could help out with this error?

Reply 1 of 3, by Qbix

Posted on 2006-11-22, 09:35

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which commands did you type in DOSBox ?

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Reply 2 of 3, by exec

Posted on 2006-11-23, 08:11

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Z:\>mount E "C:\S" -t cdrom -label "Sango"
MSCDEX: Mounted Subdirectory: limited support.
Drive E is mounted as CDRom.
Z:\>E:
E:\>san.exe
DOS/4GW Protected Mode Run-time Version 1.97
Copyright (c) Rational Systems, Inc. 1990-`1994
System Free Memory : 14596K
VESA compatible Video Card Detected!
Microsoft Compatible Mouse Detected!
Load System Data ......
Load Chinese Font Error!

E:\>

It's not a cdrom, it's a folder in my C drive. But when I wanna try to load the game using the recommended way like mount it but not mount it as in cdrom, it doesn't work out with a message saying "CDRom couldn't be found".

So I searched the web and found out this way, that author said, which was to trick the dosbox in believing that I am mounting something from cdrom. Not quite sure, I just follow the command, which was the same as above, given by that author.

Any idea?

Reply 3 of 3, by wd

Posted on 2006-11-23, 11:56

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I guess he means to mount the directory twice, like
mount C "C:\S"
mount E "C:\S" -t cdrom -label "Sango"

and run the game from c: (this enabled mscdex support through the 2nd
mount and still has full read/write control on the files due to the 1st mount).

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