DOS Games Discussion

dolar · Guest

Aaaaaaa I feel Confuzzled

, becouse i cant write this sing " \ ". in dosbox. Does here anybody know the solution for my problem? I trided everything, even hard smashing my keyboard aginst the table Shocked

and it dint worked. Crying

DB A · Guest

Did you read the documentation of DOSBox ?
I recall that there is an entire FAQ item dedicated to your problem

dosraider · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 6:34 am Post subject:

Or:
You'd better bang your head against the table, and really hard, several times, maybe that will get your tiny brain in place. So you can read the dosbox readme and will know how to change the standard US key layout to your own.

Guest · Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:54 pm Post subject:

Found the key(ž) Shit-Eating Grin

, the game is working fine Malevolent

dosraider · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:53 am Post subject:

Congratž.
Enjoy it.

Shit-Eating Grin

The Undertaker · Guest

I did everything you wrote Mr. dosraider and installed my kknd with the help of this DOSBox and everything seems to be fine but I can't run the game. When it had finished installing the game, my DOSBox said: "Type KKND to play the game
Changing to <<C>>"
I type KKND and it says illegal command Crying

dosraider · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 5:11 pm Post subject:

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11834

The Undertaker · Guest

Ok, I tried "cd kknd" and it says "unable to change to: kknd."
I think I did ok the thing with the mounting and managed to install the game. However, the thing which confuses me is that in my directory where my DOSbox installed the game, there are only 2 kknd files with the size of 38 and 338 bytes (maybe this is irrelevant but nvm). Could it be that it didnt install the game as it should? What should I try?

dosraider · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject:

The Undertaker · Guest

Ok, from the very beginning:
-I created the folder "games" in my C: partition as instructed
-Running DOSBox.... Z:\>mount c c:games
Drive C is mounted as local directory c:\games\
-Z:\>mount d h:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
MSCDEX installed.
Drive D is mounted as CDRom h:\
-Z:\>D:
-D:\>install
-.......Asking me if I wish to use UniVBE as my VESA driver, I press N
-After a short period of waiting during which DSBox displayed nothing but black screen, I got: Type KKND to play the game
Changing to <<C>>
-C:\>cd kknd
Unable to change to: kknd.
-C:\>Beyond my skills Sad

This was exactly how I did it. I am very sorry if I'm getting on your nerves. Many thanks.

MiniMax · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:38 pm Post subject:

It looked okay what you did there Undertaker. You shouldn't need the -usecd 0 and the -ioctl options when mounting the CD, but I don't think it matters. But try without them.

Also, you should set gus=false in your dosbox.conf, so the installer will pick the SoundBlaster device instead.

That you only get a black screen during the installation is rather worrisome. It should ask you about a few things, like where to install the files, which sound device to use, etc.

The Undertaker · Guest

I tried withouth the -usecd 0 and -ioctl options and it worked the same without causing any problems. I've also set that "gus=false" in the dosbox.conf.. And I still get that black screen. It doesn't ask me absolutely anything except the thing with that driver in the beginning and either replying "yes" or "no" the result is the same..

dosraider · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:10 pm Post subject:

You didn't get on my nerves, Undertaker, lolz.

But you also didn't answer one rather important question:
OS?
If you're on Vista try that cd mount line:
mount d h:\ -t cdrom -noioctl
I had some troubles on Vista lately, dosbox mounts now by default CDs with -ioctl, some OEM Vistas didn't seem to like that ......
Also if you're on Vista follow and apply this dosbox howto:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10437

I do agree with MiniMax that the black screen is not good, not good at all even.
Do you have the original CD or a copy?
If you burned the CD from an ISO, did you burned using the image file itself?

Is your dosbox install a default one? Meaning: did you alter anything?

questions questions.... detail details....

The Undertaker · Guest

I'm glad I'm not getting on your nerves...yet. lol
Sorry I didnt answer your question. I didn't get the abbreviation in the first place.. I'm not using Vista, but XP.
Now..I hope my copy of KKND isn't a problem. It's not an original, it's actually a downloaded copy from the Internet. I have it as an image mounted on Daemon Tools.
As for the dosbox, I didn't alter anything after the installation. I installed it normally accepting everything in the setup (as instructed).
So you said KKND folder should have been created..Well, as I told you, it doesn't create anything except 2 files (some MEM file and Microsoft Office Outlook Configuration file). So it definetly didn't install the game as it should have and I certainly hope my KKND image is not a reason for this 'cause I can't think of the other way of getting KKND.

MiniMax · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:25 am Post subject:

I bought my copy of KKND just a few weeks ago at a local game shop. And I see plenty of them at eBay.

For the record, this is what my CD (well, it is actually an image) contains when viewed from inside DOSBox: