DOS Games Discussion

Dogbreath · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:56 pm Post subject:

Are you pulling my leg?

Crucible · Member Joined: 29 Sep 2009 Posts: 33

No! I'm really THAT computer stupid. I can tell you anything about sales, the Ministry, or raising kids, but computers I'm point (very slowly) and maybe I should click...

Which to use 32 bit or 64 bit... Ashamed

Larry Laffer · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 10:39 pm Post subject:

Alright guys, let's not confuse the bloke any further.

Okay, the 32 bit or 64 bit are different versions of the program(which is made to archive files or extract them from said archives) made to run on different versions of windows. Download the 32 bit version, and install it(simply running the downloaded executable should lead you through a very straightforward install process.

Now, open the game archive that you've downloaded from hotu, and do as Dogbreath said: select all files, click "Extract to"(newest version might have a different name for this button, but shouldn't be much different), in the window that pops up, enter the path( c:\users\Khiezer\oldgames\curse ) and hit Ok.

After you've done all this, run DOSBox, and the

cd curse
start

commands should work fine.

Crucible · Member Joined: 29 Sep 2009 Posts: 33

I just got illegal command after I entered start...man I don't think that its complicated, but something isn't right. I don't know where to start man.

Larry Laffer · Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 12:09 am Post subject:

Crucible · Member Joined: 29 Sep 2009 Posts: 33

Still had the same problem over and over again. still saying start is an illegal command. I checked and rechecked the files and there was a start in each file.

Crucible · Member Joined: 29 Sep 2009 Posts: 33

Here is my autoexec

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount c "c:\users\Khiezer\oldgames"
c:

Wonderong if I have that much correct. Thats in DOSBOX 0.73

dosraider · Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 2:59 am Post subject:

dosraider · Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 12:49 pm Post subject:

Ah well, forget everything, simply delete what you have in \oldgames\, forget setting up dosbox, forget your mounts and sorrows to play this game.
Had some free time, and I begin to see that dos, dosbox, paths, whatevers ... aren't for you, can happen, some people never get to understand it.
You will have your qualities as human being, but dos isn't part of your skills.

But as you seem to really want to play this game; this is what you do:
Download this zipped file:
curse.zip - 2.33MB

And now read carefully and apply what I tell you:
Be sure to have deleted the old \curse\ folder and:
Unzip the FOLDER that's in the zip, to know: \curse\ in your
c:\users\Khiezer\oldgames\ so that you end up with:
c:\users\Khiezer\oldgames\curse\
Once again, in the zip file there is a folder named curse,
you must unzip the folder into c:\users\Khiezer\ oldgames\
not the seperate files in the folder, the FOLDER itself.

OK?
Now you open that c:\users\Khiezer\oldgames\curse\ folder and double click on dosbox.exe, that will automount the needed virtual C: do a cd to where it must be and run the game.
Do NOT run your dosbox from the desktop shortcut, but the dosbox.exe in the new unzipped c:\users\Khiezer\oldgames\curse\ folder.

If asked for a password simply hit Q and enter.

It works, is tested on my XP and Vista compys.
You can save, load, whatever.

Of course, I based the stuff and dosbox set up on your provided info, to know that there is effectively a c:\users\Khiezer\oldgames\, if not, you're screwed. Laughing

***For all the others: It is set up to work on Crucible's PC, needless to try this on your PC, won't work.
Or you will have to edit the dosbox conf file in the \curse\ folder .....

Dogbreath · Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 1:21 pm Post subject:

Just to see if I had any problems, I downloaded curse of the azure bonds (the hotud one) and ran it... took me about 2 minutes to get running. (had to edit the curse.cfg file to get it to save my characters properly)

Needless to say if dosraiders file doesn't work for you... I don't know what to say.

Crucible · Member Joined: 29 Sep 2009 Posts: 33

Dogbreath · Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:04 pm Post subject:

Keyboard works fine. Remember, you use 7 and 9 to navigate the menus up and down. (this is so you can use 8,4,2,6 to move and still navigate through characters without switching the display like other RPGs of the time) Glad it works!

dosraider · Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:00 pm Post subject:

Funny.
This whole 'Curse of the Azure Bonds' case was funny, really.

.... Funny, yep.

Crucible · Member Joined: 29 Sep 2009 Posts: 33