I am not too proud to ask for some one on one help with my DOS game. I was so proud of my self that I got the d drive mounted, took several cups of coffee, but I did it. I typed mount d D:\ -t cdrom and it's mounted but I can not get beyond that point. I have read the instructions but I seem to forget almost as soon as I read it. I currently have The Dame Was Loaded cd in the tray and I want to get it mounted but don't know what command to use and I have tried mannnny.

If D: is the letter of your CD drive, it should be mounted properly.

If your Dame CD is like mine, you'd then enter the command

D:\INSTALL.EXE

to install the game

The game should install to the C:\Dame folder of your DOSBox. So to start the game, you'd type in

C:\DAME\DAME


If your CD drive is E: or F:, you should have used

mount d E:\ -t cdrom
or
mount d F:\ -t cdrom

You'd still use D:\INSTALL.EXE to install the game because when you say "mount d" you're telling DOSBox that your CD drive is named D: so that's what DOSBox thinks it is (even if Windows calls your drive E: or F: )

There are more tips for running this game on the DOSBox site
http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=2000&letter=T

From the DOSBOX console type D: (this will place you on the CD ROM device), and then enter install.

There are other instructions ** HERE ** (see below)

If the keyboard does not work and is impossible to save/load and skip audio/video, this should help (tested with 0.61 official version):
Delete or rename wintest.exe from the game directory and copy mem.exe there (where to find it: XP - C:\WINDOWS\system32; Win 98 - c:/windows/command), rename mem.exe to wintest.exe and run the game. Now the keyboard should work fine.
With 9000 cycles was speed perfect on my computer with 2.5 GHz processor. There is also a sound patch that can be found at The Patches Scrolls http://www.patches-scrolls.de/ , but the game seemed to work fine without it. I picked out Gravis Ultrasound and sound was good, SB should work too.

InlandAZ,

You are a life saver not to mention my hair. I will use your instructions in the morning as I am too tired to continue. You will never guess how many funny commands I have entered with this game and of course none worked. I will get back to you tomorrow and wish me luck. BTW is the game really worth all of my drama(lol)?

By the way, either the method Inland described or the one I described will work to install the game.

Also, if you want to see what files are on the CD, type

DIR D:

or if you already did

CD D:

you can just type

DIR

PS. Don't confuse \'s with /'s

Inland & Jenny,
Thank you both for your support but I still have not been able to install. I followed Inland's instructions and was almost there until I got this, invalid target drive . I brings up the game, Dame and shows install from D to C but when I click on install it shows that c is the invalid target drive and I am wondering how can that be. I have a question concerning another method of install. I have the game on my hard drive, can I install from there rather than from the CD? I am so close I hate to give it up ..there must be something that I am doing wrong but I don't know what it is.

I think you need to use the command

mount C C:\

Check the DOSBox FAQ
http://www.gameboomers.com/Members/dosboxfaq.html
or Inferno's tutorial
http://home.earthlink.net/~eddie1231/dosboxtutorial1.htm
for more explanation.

You'll have to mount both C and D each time you start DOSBox unless you edit your dosbox.conf to make them stick.


It might or might not work, depending on whether the game checks for the presence of a CD or not. With the GK1 CD, you could copy the contents of the CD to the drive and install from there and not need the CD in the drive, but I don't know if it would work with The Dame.

Yep, what Jenny said - On thing I do, that I'm not sure others do is this... I create a folder under my User directory named DOSGAMES and then issue the mount command as MOUNT C C:\Users\My User Name\DOSGAMES.

That way, I avoid any issues writing to the root of the hard drive.

I don't know if it makes any difference concerning commands but I am using DOS 0.74 .

It does not -

InlandAZ & Jenny100,

Thank you guys sooo much. WE did it, I finally got the game to install and play and yes so far it seems the game was worth all the drama I went through. I could not have done w/o your help. The Boomer family are the best.

Glad to hear you got it working and that you're enjoying it.
Have fun.

I hate to continue to bother you but I want to what InlandAZ has done with all oof his DOS games but I am confused. He said he used the command mount c C:\Users\My User name\DOSGAMES .
I don't know what Users means and I further have no idea what My User Name is.
I would like to do it that way if possible and if not I am a happy camper with being to play The Dame after so much help from you two.

C:\Users\"User Name" is a folder that created when you create an account under Windows 7. In my case it's InlandAZ, so the path would be C:\Users\InlandAZ.

The reason I place my games there is because many older DOS games modified files in the root directory.


Edit -


A much easier way to get started is to download D-Fend Reloaded - it has a fairly good install wizard that builds all the DOSBOX commands for you.

I second what Inland says about D-fend. The beauty of that program is when you get it set up you no longer have to mount the drives each time you want to play your game. You just click on the desktop icon for D-fend. You see a list of games installed and click on the one you wish to play.

And you can use D-Fend to install games for you.