DOS Games Discussion

[schleinn]

hey all

i have a problem opening the game blood and magic,
when i open it normaly it opens a box with a few text but after a few secconds the following text comes up: this system does not support fullscreen mode. choose 'close' to terminate the application.

i also tried to play it in lower resolutions and tried all things with compatibility that didnt work.
and i tried to run it in dosbox and there i get the error: cant find res_cfg. at line 80, file resmgr.cpp

can anyone help me with this problem

p.s. i lost this game for like 12 years and i finaly found the name and now i cant play it

greetings niels

[dosraider]

Some relevant details could help us help you, as are:

Your OS is?
Your dosbox mount lines are?
How did you setup the game?
How do you launch the game?
Original game or downloaded?
Floppy version or CD version?

[schleinn]

dont know what my OS and moutn linse are?:S
i just mount the img with deamon tools and installed it
and i launged the game by clicking bammain.exe and i opened it with dosbox
and its a downloaded version

[dosraider]

[schleinn]

okey its windows 7
and i got 2 CD images 1 CCD and other is .cue the last one i used to instal the game (and i tried other one to)
and my virtual CD player is G: and i dont know how to mount it in dosbox?
do you think it will work if i burn it on a CD?

[dosraider]

OK, Win 7, as far as I can see from your first post you do NOT run the game in dosbox but in dos command window, that's not the same.
The error you posted has nothing to see with dosbox but is a Windows error message.

First step is to install dosbox correctly in Win7,
read and apply:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13511

Once that is done, you need to install the game in dosbox, for this you will need to mount your CD as D: in dosbox.
If I understand you swell you have a cloneCD image ànd a BIN/CUE image, so you have a choice to make, the CCD or the BIN/CUE

You do not need to burn the CD, dosgame CDs aren't really suited to run directly from a real CD, as the old CDdrives didn't spin up/down the whole time, when ran from real CDs dosgames kinda become jerky, as the ol' 2X 4X CDdrives didn't spin down .... etcetera ....)

Launch dosbox and at the prompt:

The BIN/CUE can be mounted directly in dosbox as D: with the imgmount command:
imgmount d "x:\path\name image.cue" -t cdrom

The CCD image can not be mounted directly, you need to mount the image in your virtual CD drive as usual and your dosbox mount line becomes:
mount d g:\ -t cdrom

Advisable is the "imgmount" method directly in dosbox, but not obligatory, depends of your hardware, imgmount is a bit more performant.

Next install the game IN DOSBOX from D: on C: