DOS Games Discussion

[Baconbits]

Hi, so I managed with windows 7 64bit to avoid all that annoying virtual drive crap and install the windows warcraft 2 cd by mounting my drives and running the install through dosbox onto my HD. I played it through and beat wc2 and now I wanted to install the windows warcraft 2 exp cd and play. I figured I'd follow the same process as before but what a surprise it doesn't work. It says it can't find the war2.exe and that I must have original game in order to install the expansion. After which I yell at my computer saying the exe is right there.
My process goes like this.

mount C C:\dosbox\
mount D D:\ -t cdrom
D:\
install

then I gave it the directory for warcraft 2 which is C:\dosbox\war2\
which is where it lies to me and says it doesn't exist. any ideas?

[dosraider]

[Baconbits]

Well I followed the windows how to and moved all my files into the new folder called oldgames. Changing the mounted folder location didn't seem to accomplish anything I still get the same error message.

I did

mount C C:\users\***\oldgames\

for the install program I gave the warcraft 2 location

C:\users\***\oldgames\war2

"Incorrect or missing war2.exe in the specified directory. This add-on requires the retail version of Warcraft 2"

[dosraider]

Moi need:
-mount lines + inputs when installing game+
-mount lines +inputs when running game+
-mount lines +inputs when trying to install expansion pack.
Detailed, yes "all that annoying virtual drive crap" as you call it.
Also: do you have the original CD or a downloaded one?
Also²: post a screenie of your mounts + error screen.

Also³: I don't think you can install the exp pack on a cracked version, but I'm not 100% sure about that........

[dosraider]

Wait a sec .....

[Baconbits]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOH hahaha. That did it. Yea I forgot how I mounted the C drive I guess. See I knew I didn't need to go through the hassle of a virtual drive . Dumb mistake on my part though, thanks for the help. FYI its a legit cd. I was a fan of blizzard long before world of warcraft came out.

[Baconbits]

argh.. a new problem has arrived . Everything runs fine but now its playing midi music instead of the better quality music off the cd. I read another post and made an image of the cd with imgburn. I took the bin and cue files named em both WC2X and put them in a folder in my oldgames directory. I Mounted everything as shown in some of your screenshots and got an error.
Process:

Z:\> Mount C C:\users\***\oldgames\
Z:\> Imgmount d C:\war2cd\wc2x.cue -t cdrom
could not load image file: C:\users\***\war2cd\wc2x.cue
MSCDEX: Failure: Invalid file or unable to open.

Heeewlp!

[dosraider]

[Baconbits]

The Image files bin and cue or Wc2x (yes I renamed them, which I thought we were supposed to?) I put in a folder called War2cd in the Oldgames folder. Soo.. The location for the bin and cue's is at C:\users\***\oldgames\War2cd . The game is in another folder also in oldgames. So since I mounted C already as users\***\oldgames doesn't that mean I need to imgmount the images as C:\war2cd\wc2x.cue -t cdrom ? Because C: is technically C:\users\***\oldgames ????

[dosraider]

Pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ......... ah well, let see if I can explain how things work:

[Baconbits]

Ahhh ok. So I should name the images during with imgburn when I'm creating the image? I mean otherwise the bin and cue file name is something long like warcraft_2_expansion_disc.cue

Ugh this is very confusing but I think I see where I screwed up with the mountings. I basically still have to give the full path to the image file even if my mounted C drive already includes some of it because they're not related? Correct?

[Baconbits]

Well from the little bit I read I guess I can't rename the bin and cue in the imgburn, I guess I'll just deal with the long file name. Is it still ok to put the bin and cue files where I did previously?.

[dosraider]

Correct, they are not related, as I said.

As for the name, you can give them a short dos compliant name by creation, imgburn will usually propose the cdlabel or name (if is) but you can change the name as you wish before creation, the CD label-name will be stored in the image file.
To rename: click on the folder icon in 'destination' in the main imgburn window after you select 'create image file from disc'.


A good name for the expansion pack CD could be:
wc2ex.cue - wc2ex.bin
..... or whatever you like.

To be complete:
Dos compliant:
8 chars, no spaces nor windows jingle bells, the simpler the better.
Valid dos naming is 8.3 format.
8 chars max for the name.
3 for the extension.

[Baconbits]

It works!!!! WOOOOHOOO. You sir are a dosbox god and have brought back the glory of warcraft 2.