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Aldeb · Post by **Aldeb** » Thu Mar 12, 2015 6:24 am

Ok, so I installed the game from the CD, finished the setup but the game just sort of hangs here and never starts.

this is my system configuration. Ran using DosBox. any ideas?

Aldeb · Post by **Aldeb** » Thu Mar 12, 2015 7:08 am

Scratch this. I bought the GoG version and it works.

Aldeb · Post by **Aldeb** » Mon Mar 16, 2015 10:24 am

I figured out what the issue was. I made a BIN of the original CD because my optical drive is really noisy. apparently this old game has copy protection on it and I can only play with the original cd inside, not off a virtual disc on my hdd. stuubid

Post by **MrFlibble** » Mon Mar 16, 2015 12:28 pm

Perhaps the game expected a particular label for the CD? This was often the trick that was used for copy protection back in the day.

You can set a label for your virtual CD with the -label command line option:
http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/MOUNT#Extra_CD_ROM_options

(This should work with IMGMOUNT too.)

tienkhoanguyen · Post by **tienkhoanguyen** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 3:55 am

God, Jesus, Mary!

Also another trick is that it expects a bit to be written at a sector specified.

For instance let's say you have a game that contains 500MB data.

Well most copying methods will only copy that 500MB into an ISO.

However the producer of copyright who are greedy will write a single bit.

They write it at the very last sector (say 500MB+1).

Well when you try to reproduce that ISO the original is not there.

The reason is now easy to see.

It is missing that extra bit.

Cheers!!!!!!!!!!!!