sart wrote:

I have the original 4 diskettes version of SC2. I PKUNZIP'ed them

Are you saying the "original 4 diskettes" required you to manually use PKUNZIP? That doesn't sound right. What makes you think these disks are "original" ? Because a failure at the copy protection questions would be not at all inconsistent from what one might expect from an illegal copy.

You can purchase this game from GOG.com (which supplies it pre-configured with DOSBox) if you want. But I would suggest looking up The Ur-Quan Masters, which is the same game but with lots of nice new features; it should also run smoothly under Windows. I understand there's even an "HD" version now.

Jorpho wrote:

sart wrote:

I have the original 4 diskettes version of SC2. I PKUNZIP'ed them

Are you saying the "original 4 diskettes" required you to manually use PKUNZIP?

They didn't require that - I ran an "install.bat" which automatically started the built-in PKUNZIP, and extracted all the files to C:. From time to time it said "press a key to continue" as it began extracting the next disk/archive. Many old games had this system. Also I would like to find out what is wrong with this version, before trying out newer ones.

sart wrote:

Many old games had this system.

Many usually had their own installation programs. But whatever.

Did you follow the 60 Seconds Guide ? If you are running starcon2 from C:\ , that may be the cause of the problem; you should be mounting the parent directory of the subdirectory that contains starcon2 (e.g., so that you run the game from C:\SC2).