Installed all the necessary stuff but when I try to run Age of Rifles with VMDS the program is looking for the CD in drive A (not D) - any idea how I can override this???
Steve
Haven't heard of a CD game looking for A:
I presume you tried "Enable low-level CD-ROM support (MSCDEX)"? on the VDMSound shortcut's properties.
BTW, can you please tell us your system specs? That has a direct effect on the way some titles respond.
OS, CPU, RAM,etc...
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz)
Memory: 256MB PC2100 DDR RAM
Hard Drive: 40GB ATA100 HDD
Graphics: 64MB DDR GeForce4
MX440 Graphics
Drives: 32x10x40 CD Writer
Modem: 56K Modem
Running XP Professional....
Steve
...apologies, and yes to your other question - I did enable low level MCSDEX
Ah-ha!
http://www.ssionline.com/support/01.html
"Specific Problems: (CD ROM)
If you get the message, "Can't Access CD-ROM" you will probably need to upgrade your version of MSCDEX. Age of Rifles won't run with any version older than 2.22."
You MAY need to use SAPUCDEX to fool the version number checking, but there still may be unimplemented functions in SAPUCDEX.
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showthread.php?threadid=503
Also note this thread: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=8j2vk8%2 … ews.prodigy.com
"AOR freaks over D&E being CD drives, so go into config.sys and add the following line lastdrive=d, then restart the computer. The computer & AOR think there is only one CD reader and the sound comes back. The negative is that windows 98 will ignore the E drive also, so when your through playing AOR just go back into the config.sys and either put rem in front of the last drive command or simply remove it then save & reboot."
The LASTDRIVE command SHOULD work in CONFIG.NT or CONFIG.VDMS. I think. But I think it would be ignored. Hm...
wrote:Ah-ha! "Specific Problems: (CD ROM)
You beat me to it. This page had an un-official 1.43 patch
http://www.militarygameronline.com/ageofrifles/index.asp
...but apparently the download is broken and I've yet to find another link.
Still looking...
Link works fine here! Seems to be the only location, too.
ftp://ftp.militarygameronline.com/pub/AgeofRi … 3_universal.zip
Note that there's no README, so I'll just copy&paste what Norm wrote:
"I believe this should work properly if simply unzipped to an AoR directory. The SSI instructions for installing and running the game are, well, not entirely accurate... Among other things, they specify a DOS session for the game and installation - an unnecessary complication that I've never even tried with AoR (It was designed from the start to run from a Win95 desktop icon, which is how it works best)."
It's funny, though, Mr. Kroger doesn't mention this patch on his page: http://home.austin.rr.com/normkoger/aor.html
It's funny, additionally, that I didn't realize he was a programmer for Strategic Simulations, Inc. until now. 😀
It still doesn't mean my advice won't apply, though. (rather, the advice I copied from elsewhere).
wrote:Link works fine here! Seems to be the only location, too.
Mozilla 1.01 reports: "530 Sorry, no ANONYMOUS access allowed". IE v6 reports "The page cannot be displayed". IE 5.5 seems to work. If he has IE 5.5, it should work.
It's funny, additionally, that I didn't realize he was a programmer for Strategic Simulations, Inc. until now.
Historical moment everyone. There's a programmer that Stiletto hasn't emailed/petitioned/personally had a chat with... Write it down, you'll be talking about this to your grandkids someday.
It still doesn't mean my advice won't apply, though.
We should add that the reason this is needed is because NT's version of "MSCDEX" is interpreted as an earlier version of the DOS MSCDEX, which causes these programs to break.
I know that was posted elsewhere, but Steve H. might've missed it.
Wow.. cheers guys - shedload of stuff to try....
Will have a go at Last Drive idea first, but have downloaded the patch and will also try that...
Will let you know how it goes...
Steve H.
...applied the 1.4 patch, still no joy... it seems to be something in VDMSound - when I try to start the program without it looks for the CD in the D drive, when I try it with VDMSound it goes looking in A... I'm stumped....
Steve H.
..forgot to give the error message...
VDMSound DOS loader, version 2.01 (Aug 04 2001)
Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Vlad ROMASCANU.
VDMSound is covered by the GNU Public License (GPL), version 2 or later, as
published by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. (http://www.fsf.org/).
DOS/4GW Protected Mode Run-time Version 1.97
Copyright (c) Rational Systems, Inc. 1990-1994
Digital sound functions will be disabled...
Cd functions will be disabled...
CD-ROM identified as drive A:
Drive not ready error reading drive A
Retry, Ignore, Fail?
Steve H.
Nicht -- Moz 1.2b worked fine. You probably just hit it while it was down/busy.
Yes, it’s my fault.
wrote:when I try to start the program without it looks for the CD in the D drive, when I try it with VDMSound it goes looking in A... I'm stumped....
Same here. Might need to ask Vlad as he's the actual programmer. I've never heard of this "A-Drive" issue before this.
In the meantime you might try the "ripped" version at underdogs.org (under "Wargame Construction Set 3"). Main downside of that version is it won't have any of the background CD-music of the original.
wrote:probably just hit it while it was down/busy.
No, it's probably because I was using the non-beta 1.01. I'll leave the betas for other people to test out.
..how do I get hold of Vlad???
Steve H.
Steve, Vlad is all around us. Vlad is the unholy god of VDMSound. He is here, if you call out, and let him receive you...
...whoo. 2:30 too early.
Yes, it’s my fault.
wrote:..how do I get hold of Vlad???
Well, his email address is on the homepage for VDMSound and in VDMSound's documentation. But in any case his email is ntvdm@hotmail.com.
If you were registered, you could also contact him using the board tools.
wrote:Steve, Vlad is all around us.
Think you need to back off on the medication and get some sleep.
Difference between "Run with VDMS" and plain DOS box is that , in VDMSound, EMS is enabled and CD-ROM support is disabled. So, in LaunchPad disable EMS and enable CD-ROM support.
V.
