What??? You want to use DOSBox 0.72 once it gets working? But if it works, why use DOSBox 0.72?

MiniMax wrote:

What??? You want to use DOSBox 0.72 once it gets working? But if it works, why use DOSBox 0.72?

??? Don't post when you're drunk... (;

DoctorKazefa: install the game from within DOSBox. You don't need DOS disks, as DOSBox emulates a DOS environment. Read the readme and the guides here to find out how to mount drives etc.

Basic steps:
- Install DOSBox
- Mount virtual drive c: (and CDROM)
- Install game
- Setup game (sound, etc.)
- Run game! (;

That's when using the DOS version of MW2, of course. According to MobyGames, there are also Windows variants of the game. These won't work with DOSBox, obviously.

mechwarrior 2 => use iso or cue/bin with imgmount else cdrom detection fails

Hey guys,

@Qbix - imgmount as in imgmount the dosbox command? cool, I'll try that.

@Addict - I tried installing in DOSBox but I receive an error:
Error Code 9005
The installer was unable to find a suitable temporary directory.

@MiniMax - nonono, what I mean is, I can only play the game through dosbox. However I install it, that's how I have to play it.

After reading this I tried: install.exe SwapDir=c:\misc
and received the same error! (although the code had shifted to 9009).
(Am I missing something here?)

Thanks!

Hey everyone,

Thanks for your help! I got the game working.

What I did in the end was:

mount c c:\games
imgmount o c:\mw2.bin -t iso (thanks qbit!)

(I had to make mw2.bin, the image file of my MW2 cd.)

I could then run the install program, and then mech2.
Amazing, this brings back so many memories =)

Again thanks!

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