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First post, by blackmountain1983

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I have the CD Rom Game: TIME COMMANDO made by Activision for Windows 95 and DOS. It is too old school to run on my computer normally. I was able to get it to work using DOSBOX, but only once.

Apparently, Time Commando was only temporarily installed using the DosBox Emulator, so once DosBox Closed, I had to reinstall it, but when I tried to install it a second time, I got this error message:

Error Code 9005
The installer was unable to find a suitable temporary directory.
You may specify one on the command line by invoking:
D:\DOS\INSTALL.EXE SwapDir=d:\path
If your computer is part of a network, please ensure that you have adequate rights to create a subdirectory and a file on the path you specify.

My computer is not part of a network. So I tried:

D:\DOS>INSTALL.EXE SwapDir=d:\path

and got the same error message. Then I figured that perhaps "path" meant that's where I should type where I want the temporary directory to be, to I tried replacing "path" with C: and I got the same message. Then I created a new folder within C: called "timecommando" and then tried replacing "path" with C:\timecommando and I got the same error message. Then I tried replacing "d:\path" with C:\timecommando and still got the same error message.

Anyone have any idea how I can get this game to work again?

Reply 1 of 6, by Jorpho

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blackmountain1983 wrote:

Then I created a new folder within C: called "timecommando" and then tried replacing "path" with C:\timecommando and I got the same error message. Then I tried replacing "d:\path" with C:\timecommando and still got the same error message.

I'm not sure what you did, but considering DOSBox cannot recognize filenames with more than eight characters, there is no way a folder named "timecommando" is going to get you anywhere.

Did you follow the 60 Seconds Guide ?

Reply 2 of 6, by blackmountain1983

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Ok so I shortened the folder name to "timeco" and it still did not work.

as for what I did, I started by typing

MOUNT D D:\ -t cdrom

then once on D: I typed
CD\DOS

and then once at D:\DOS> I typed
INSTALL

as per the Time Commando Instructions

Reply 4 of 6, by eL_PuSHeR

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Reply 5 of 6, by blackmountain1983

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Dominus wrote:

Follow the 60 seconds guide. You need to mount something for c, too

Perfect, it worked great! Thank you!