Did you install the game on harddisk? If you just burned an existing installation on CD and try to run it from there, then it is normall, that it cannot write anything there... 😀 CD is not writable.

Mirek

I put it on my hd, and mounted the folder that the DW folder was in as my c drive. So when I'm in the dw folder the prompt says C:\disc\>

Dunno what's on underdogs, but my original (a "game classics" re-release) discworld CD creates c:\discwld.cd, where it copies all drivers (*.mid), the setsound.exe program and a few other files that seem to belong to sound setup. Also, it creates a subdir "saves" where the savegames reside. Other than that, it seems to run directly from CD, and the path c:\discwld.cd seems to be hardcoded.

The following files are found there:

directory SAVE\
DWCONF (looks like generated on-the-fly)
several batch files (*.BAT)
several files called SAMPLE.*, *.DIG, *.INI, *.MDI
RM.DRV
AILDRVR.LST
DWB.EXE
SETSOUND.EXE

Try copying them there, running setsound, then playing the game.

The one from the underdogs is suppose to be able to run from the harddrive but it also contains the files to convert itself back to the CD version which you can burn onto a cd and run from there. I don't recall trying to run it from the HD but I did burn it to a CD and it runs just fine from there. It creates the above directory that Moe referred to as well. And so on.

Side-Note: Mentioned this to QBix earlier on IRC but Flashback still has some difficulties. I actually played through it some. *playing from the CD the SFX will not stay enabled for no apparent reason* And to top it off it sends me a can not write to GlobalBlahblah.ovl error like the first time when it wouldn't even boot up. Except it doesn't happen until after you get to the next section of the game. (Cheat Code: REPLAY) Then play up until the FMV video and watch that and it "crashes" with the above error right after it.

i have trouble with saving too:
game works ok without dosbox, but when i try to save a game in box, game creates another one SAVE folder in already existing one and puts a save there (\SAVE\SAVE\SG.1)
after when i go to another screen it crashes saying couldn't find files DRIVERS\ISOUND.BAT and UNSEEN.GRA (that one is in main folder)

so it changes working folder during saving but doesn't changes it back

using WinXP SP2 with 0.63 DosBox
(tried mount on c:, d: and d:\discwrld seems my trouble have nothing to do with mounting...)

Ha ha I found an answer that works for me on a random download site comment: Had to rename the program directory to c:\discwld (note no 'r'). Before saves did not work, afterwards they did. I'm running using boxer on a mac.

Good $deity, you just bumped a nine year old thread!

You can run Discworld with ScummVM now and I don't really see why you would use DOSBox instead.