Re: Help needed on Goblins 2 - DOS game

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:59:50 -0400, "Mary" <nothere@xxxxxxx> wrote:


>
>This is where I must be typing the wrong thing.
>In Dosbox there is a Z:\prompt and you can type intro for more
>instructions which I did.
>Then it says to mount the C drive at the Z:\ prompt to type c c:\sierra
>(directory name) which I did and it says "Drive C is mounted C:\sierra".
>So far OK.
> Then it said to type cd\ and the directory name to access the game, so
>I typed cd
>sierra\gob2- but it says "unable to change to C:\sierra\gob2" - I tried
>cd sierra and it says the same thing. I typed C:\sierra\gob2\go.exe and
>same thing. Obviously doing something wrong.

Here's your problem. You need to mount all drives you are planning to
use, i.e. the one with the game install and the CD drives.

A few suggestions. You can add the mounting in the configuration
file, at the bottom, so that you don't have to do this every time.
So, for instance, type:

mount c: c:\sierra\gob2\go.exe

and then at the Z prompt just type C: and it will go to the directory
and execute the file automatically. I don't personally put that all
in the config file until I know everything's working OK though. Of
course, you don't *need* to do that -- you can do it manually each
time if you wanna. The first "c:" will be what you type at the Z
prompt. Everything after that is the path it will follow.

(Just as a side note, this comes in handy for an old game that insists
on saving games to a floppy and you wanna save to your hard drive.
You can type "mount a: c:\gamedirectory\save" or whatever, and when it
looks for the a: it'll redirect it to the saved game folder. :-))

Then also, supposing your CD drive is d, you also want to type:

mount d: d:\ -t cdrom

The "-t cdrom" will let it know that it's a CD, cause it doesn't know.
And you have to mount it too or it won't know what "d:" means.

I would also suggest that you uninstall the game. Then mount both the
C: and CD drives. Then reinstall it FROM Dosbox. So from the Z
prompt you'd change directory to your CD drive and install like usual.

See if any of that helps.

Also, in the config file is stuff for sound cards. You might want to
check the irq, dma, etc., and make sure it matches what you've got.
There's several popular old sound cards in there. Just scroll through
all the stuff and have a look around.

If you get this working, I would suggest mounting *all* your drives
and save that in the config file permanently. Then you can add the
path to your game below that, and when you start Dosbox it will
automatically go there and execute your game. When you start a new
game, you leave all the mounting, but just replace the path with the
new game.

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