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First post, by Myloch

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I always get this error when installing the game. Note: the files mentioned are all there, I dunno what to do, weird thing.

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Reply 1 of 9, by Jorpho

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Myloch wrote:

I dunno what to do

Do you think someone else should know?

You need to write more about what you are doing. It looks like you are attempting to run the program from C:\DINO. Does this mean that you do not have an original disc for the game?

If this game was distributed on CD, it is probably expecting to be run from D:\. But if you just downloaded it from somewhere then there could be any number of problems with it.

Reply 2 of 9, by Myloch

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congratulations mr hawkeye! 😉
I made that screenshot just to show the error message: I tried copying whole cdrom to hard drive after failing miserably with first attempts from compact disc (I mounted it as cdrom in dosbox.conf and all). It doesn't find files that ARE on disc, and it shows the same error message, that's really weird.

Side note: I'm here for enough time to know I'll never ask for help about a pirated copy on Vogons (they would jump down my throat) but this isn't the case...100% genuine software dude!

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Reply 3 of 9, by Jorpho

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Myloch wrote:

I tried copying whole cdrom to hard drive after failing miserably with first attempts from compact disc (I mounted it as cdrom in dosbox.conf and all).

Still not clear. How did you mount the CD-ROM? Did you get the same error message?

It is quite possible that you will need to make a bin/cue rip of the CD-ROM and mount it using imgmount.

Reply 4 of 9, by Myloch

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Sure: mount d f:\ -t cdrom (f: is my real cdrom unit).
Now that I think about that, I might have tried setting cdrom label.

Jorpho wrote:

Did you get the same error message?

As I already said, it shows the same error message 😀

Jorpho wrote:

It is quite possible that you will need to make a bin/cue rip of the CD-ROM and mount it using imgmount.

Nice tip!

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Reply 5 of 9, by Jo22

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I had similar issues with IE5 and Windows 3.1. My problem was somehow related to the processor support.
No idea if I was running DOSBox or VPC, but changing the CPU type helped (toggling i-VT in VPC, core= dynamic/normal/full in DOSBox).
I remember Win32s was also very picky about such stuff when running in Virtual PC 2007.
For some reason it didn't work with the "wrong" setting for hardware-virtualization (i-VT/AMD-V).

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Reply 6 of 9, by Jorpho

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Jo22 wrote:
I had similar issues with IE5 and Windows 3.1. My problem was somehow related to the processor support. No idea if I was running […]
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I had similar issues with IE5 and Windows 3.1. My problem was somehow related to the processor support.
No idea if I was running DOSBox or VPC, but changing the CPU type helped (toggling i-VT in VPC, core= dynamic/normal/full in DOSBox).
I remember Win32s was also very picky about such stuff when running in Virtual PC 2007.
For some reason it didn't work with the "wrong" setting for hardware-virtualization (i-VT/AMD-V).

Using a machine type of pentium_slow is often advisable when using Win32s in DOSBox, though I can't recall that it could fix errors about missing files.

Reply 7 of 9, by Dominus

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Please use the Dosbox forums for problems with Dosbox - I moved it just now.

You are using Dosbox 0.74, please try with a newer SVN built.

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
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Reply 8 of 9, by Myloch

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I tried newer build, I created bin+cue, I tried changing cputype and core but nothing fixed the problem. I think I'll try with another version of Windows.

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Reply 9 of 9, by Jorpho

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There seem to be many reports of similar errors. I don't think it's necessarily a DOSBox problem.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=located+in+_setup.lib

Deleting the files in your Temp directory seems to be a common recommendation. Or you may need the -freesize parameter when mounting.