DOS Games Discussion

Naenia · Newbie Joined: 17 Oct 2010 Posts: 1

Hi there, I'm new to this so please bear with me if this is a stupid question, I haven't seen it anywhere else on the forum though so here goes:

I'm trying to get Duke Nukem I to work on Vista & have followed all the steps in the stickied 'Dosbox and Vista. [Howto]' thread, only when I attempt to open the game this happens:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a335/biwa/dosbox.jpg

It seems as though DOSBox knows the game is there because the white boxes appear where, if the game were running properly, there would be an instructions/dialogue box.

Does anyone know a fix for this issue?

dosraider · Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 11:48 am Post subject:

Dosbox version?
Mount lines?
What have you done till now to install the game?
How do you run the game?
Where did you get the game?

AKA: details please.......

FYI: DN1 runs flawless on dosbox, so it's pretty safe to assume there is somewhere a screw up, but without any relevant info I can't even guess what's screwed up.

Guest · Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 6:06 pm Post subject:

I'm using Dosbox 0.74.

My exact mount lines are:
[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount c "c:\users\mOwner\oldgames"
c:

To install the game I unzipped the file I downloaded, and ran INSTALL.BAT - I think this is where I went wrong? - and saved to c:\users\mOwner\oldgames\DUKE.

To run I start up DOSBox and type in 'DUKE\DN1' & hit enter.

Oh, and I got the game from dosgamesarchive.com

Thanks for taking the time to try and help me.

dosraider · Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 6:13 pm Post subject:

Delete that 'duke' folder, in other words: start over from scratch.
Rule of thumb: dosgames must be installed IN dosbox.
Unzip the file you downloaded to
c:\users\mOwner\oldgames\temp\
You must have 3 files in \temp\ now:
install.bat, DN1SW20.SHR and FILE_ID.DIZ
Run dosbox and input:

cd temp
install

Accept everything (simply hit 'enter' when needed.
This will install the game correctly in c:\duke\ (dosbox path, of course) and leave you in c:\duke\
input dn1 to run the game.

Next time you wanna run the game, run dosbox and input:
cd duke
dn1

That's all.
You may delete what's in \temp\ if you want.

Guest · Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 6:17 pm Post subject:

Thank you very much, everything is working perfectly.

dosraider · Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 6:26 pm Post subject:

You're welcome.
Happy