need help installing and playing games with dosbox


  1. Posts : 7
    windows 7 home premium 64 bit
       #1

    need help installing and playing games with dosbox


    1. i downloaded dosbox version .74 and mounted C. the problem im having is: i copied the game i want to play in to my c drive, ( its on cd) from there i right clicked on the folder and renamed it to "csworld" (where in the world is carmen sandiego), and then enter C:\> cd csworld it says unable to change to :csworld. help me please what have i done wrong?
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  2. Posts : 100
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
       #2

    Mount your CD drive in DOS-Box, and run the installer from there.

    From the DosBox manual:-

    "To mount your CD-ROM in DOSBox you have to specify some additional options
    when mounting the CD-ROM.
    To enable CD-ROM support (includes MSCDEX) in Windows:
    - mount d f:\ -t cdrom

    "In some cases you might want to use a different CD-ROM interface,
    for example if CD audio does not work:
    To enable SDL-support (does not include low-level CD access!):
    - mount d f:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -noioctl
    To enable ioctl access using digital audio extraction for CD audio
    (windows-only, useful for Vista):
    - mount d f:\ -t cdrom -ioctl_dx
    To enable ioctl access using MCI for CD audio (windows-only):
    - mount d f:\ -t cdrom -ioctl_mci
    To force ioctl-only access (windows-only):
    - mount d f:\ -t cdrom -ioctl_dio
    To enable low-level aspi-support (win98 with aspi-layer installed):
    - mount d f:\ -t cdrom -aspi

    explanation: - d driveletter you will get in DOSBox (d is the best,
    don't change it!)
    - f:\ location of CD-ROM on your PC. In most cases it will
    be d:\ or e:\
    - 0 The number of the CD-ROM drive, reported by "mount -cd"
    (note that this value is only needed when using SDL
    for CD audio, otherwise it is ignored)

    See also the next question: The game/application can't find its CD-ROM."



    Hope this is of some help.
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  3. Posts : 7
    windows 7 home premium 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    To mount your CD-ROM in DOSBox you have to specify some additional options
    when mounting the CD-ROM.

    To enable CD-ROM support (includes MSCDEX) in Windows:
    - mount d f:\ -t cdrom


    When I do this it says that f does not exist....
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  4. Posts : 100
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
       #4

    No, sorry, my bad.

    Should have explained better.

    Type it in again, but don't type the 'f'.

    Type YOUR CD drive-letter instead.


    So if your CD drive is E, for example, you'd type mount d: e:\ -t cdrom
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