Re: SUCCESS AT LAST

Yes, I'm correct. Congrats are in order! :-) Now, hopefully, you can
just enjoy playing your game.

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 21:44:47 -0400, "Mary" <nothere@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>I finally succeeded in getting Goblins 2 to work WITH sound. I
>uninstalled the game as I've done a hundred times before, and in Dox box
>after mounting the C drive, I tried "mount f: f:\ -t cdrom -aspi " as
>one of Erimess's suggestions but was one I was going to try myself, but
>didn't think it would work, but that worked. The game started up and I
>held my breath to see if it would have sound and it did. I was amazed.
>The funny thing is, my DVD rom (which is E:) does not work with Doxbox
>with the same commands as for the cdrom drive. It just hung when the
>game was supposed to start up on the screen. Maybe because its not a
>cdrom drive, its a DVD rom drive. And in the command line it says -t
>cdrom and its not a cdrom. Thats my guess.

Now this I have no idea about. I don't honestly remember whether I've
used it with my DVD drive. Since I tend to wear it out watching
movies, I usually try to keep the games to the CD drive. :-)

>
>As to ASPI, I knew it was something to do with connecting programs to
>dvdrom and cdrom drives, but I didn't know exactly what it did.
>
>I did a google search of ASPI, and Erimess, since you said you were not
>sure what aspi was, check http://aspi.radified.com/ - I didn't even know
>my cdrom had ASPI, whatever it is :)

Hmm. I really know nothing of this. Do you have a scsi drive? I do
have one program that requires ASPI for one thing, but I've never
known what it was and I've never bothered to mess with it. In fact,
sounds like you already knew more than I did. I've never needed it to
use Dosbox. That's just one of those things that's listed as things
to try. You start with the simply and work your way through all the
combinations. Which is basically what you did. Unfortunately, all
the combinations were in differently places. :-)

>By the way Erimess, you asked if the drive letter (e or whatever) is
>case sensitive for Dosbox. I tried both e and E, and doesn't seem to
>matter.

Yeah, I thought so. Just been a while since I've messed with DOS much
and I've forgotten a lot.

>The solution was nothing really difficult,

Do you believe me now that the basics don't have to be difficult? :-)
If you do have other problems come up, then you might have to start
learning a bit about that config file.

If you do have any other issues or just don't like the way something
is running, we'll probably have some other suggestions for messing
with that config file. (Now that you see that it won't bite you. :-)
You might want, when you've had a chance to RELAX a bit, to just look
through and see what kind of stuff is in there.

> if I had only known to
>try -aspi from the start, and it is one of the last suggestions on the
>Dosbox screen, so I was working my way down. Success at the last house
>on the street so to speak.

No way to know which one is going to work.

>Now I can finally play the game. Problem solving to get the game running
>was a game in
>itself :) I am going to answer a few other messages posted last night if
>they still apply.

BTW, as for that drive letter stuff between the e and f. I'm kinda
confused as to why that example from the instructions had all of them
mounting d as e. I don't know if that confused you. Especially since
they don't really explain (that I've seen anywhere) what mounting is.
It defines "mount c c:\" as "to mount the C drive." Which is very
useful if you don't know what that means. (That's why I think the
instructions stink. They're written with the assumption you already
know certain things.) Just keep both drive letters the same. If you
ever have reason to want them different, you might be able to use
those adventure skills and figure out how to take advantage of that.
:-)

And just so I can have the last word -- SEE, I told you that you could
figure it out!!!

Now, go mess with some goblins.
---
erimess

This is the comfort of everyone: That tho' they
may be said to die, yet their love and devotion
are, in best sense, ever present because immortal.
~William Penn
In memory of my father, 1 Jan 05
.

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