DOS Games Discussion

dosraider · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 1:44 pm Post subject:

What kind of files ?
Are there some EXE files? That could help find out what version you have.

Also:
->Did you get that far that dosbox starts up with C: prompt?
->What's your C mount line?
Can be helpfull to answer your questions.

Bloodwrath · Member Joined: 26 Apr 2008 Posts: 17 Location: Hell

The exact list: Files 1-61, DEFAULT.CFG,DMAUD,DOOM, DOOM1.WAD, DOOMEXT, FILE_ID.RUA, IPXSETUP, LICSENCE.DOC, MODEM.CFG, ORDER.FRM, README, SERSETUP, SETUP, VENDOR.DOC

dosraider · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 1:55 pm Post subject:

It ain't keymap you need, but whatever.

About Doom:
You must have a subfolder DOOM with all those files in it, it must be a subfolder of your mounted C, as you were too lazy to state what your mounted C is, I won't guess after it.

Run dosbox,
input:

cd doom
setup

You should get soundsetup
choose:

SB or SB pro
A 220
IRQ 7
DMA 1
HDMA 5 (? If needed)

Run the game with doom

If YOU want more precise info, you will have to learn to state precise info friend.
There are several versions-(rips-demo-shareware-whatever)- versions of doom.
You hardly can expect us to look in our crystal globe to find out what you talking about.

Bloodwrath · Member Joined: 26 Apr 2008 Posts: 17 Location: Hell

i put in cd doom then it said "You are still on drive z; change to a mounted drive with C:". i guess my "mounted C" should be c:\dosprog\ as it says in the mount intro that that will create a C drive with \dosprog as it's contents. it says replace dosprog with my current games directory. How do i find out what my games directory is?

dosraider · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:17 pm Post subject:

And once again,
READ AND APPLY THIS:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10437

Wait, I gonna repeat it :
READ AND APPLY THIS:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10437

Bloodwrath · Member Joined: 26 Apr 2008 Posts: 17 Location: Hell

Sorry for stupidity and i must be very annyoying, but i got it mounted. I typed in cd doom and it said unable to change to doom. What do i do now?

dosraider · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:51 pm Post subject:

I'm still missing one piece of VITAL info to be able to help you easily, and that's:

Bloodwrath · Member Joined: 26 Apr 2008 Posts: 17 Location: Hell

mount c c:\users\FAMILY\dosgames does that work/what you're looking for? Also i moved the doom folder to the above folder

dosraider · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 3:19 pm Post subject:

This is what you must see in Windows:
c:\users\FAMILY\dosgames\doom\

When you use this in dosbox (BTW, you can add that in dosbox.conf, as explained in the howto...)
mount c c:\users\FAMILY\dosgames
You will be able to

c:
cd doom
setup

Choose the sound params I give you some posts before.

Setup will leave you in c:\doom (DOSBOX VIEW !!), simply input
doom to run the game.
Setup is only needed to be runned once.

Bloodwrath · Member Joined: 26 Apr 2008 Posts: 17 Location: Hell

What do you mean by windows? the top/title of a window i open up or what? and i did the mount thing and i'm still getting the unable to change to doom message. If i just downloaded it here instead, would that help?

dosraider · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 4:14 pm Post subject:

By windows i mean windows, the OS, ya know... MICROSOFT WINDOWS VISTA.

'Explorer' or 'computer' or whatever you use to look at your files on your computer.

I always use explorer cause 'computer' is a sucker. But I can hardly know what you use, can I ?

Once again:

FUCKING READ THIS THING:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10437

That way you can at least run dosbox with a C: mounted as it should.

dosraider · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject:

Bloodwrath, don't use multiple topics please, this one is swell enough. Thanks.
I've merged the posts from your new topic here.
Continue here.

Bloodwrath · Member Joined: 26 Apr 2008 Posts: 17 Location: Hell

That's it; we are all apparently overly pissed so i'm gonna start over with doom from this site. I am running the DEICE program and need to know what I should use as a directory.

dosraider · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 6:58 pm Post subject:

Naaa, we're not pissed, why would we be? We've seen worst cases.
That I merged the topics is simply to keep the forum a bit tidy, no need to create 20 topics about the same, isn't it?

Just wait a minute or so, I'll be back with an explanation for the doom you get from dosgames.com ....

I'll be back.

dosraider · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 7:21 pm Post subject:

Here, I had to redownload the sharewareversion from the site ....

The zip, DOOM19s.zip contains 5 files, unzip them in:
c:\users\FAMILY\dosgames\doom\

Run dosbox, be sure that c:\users\FAMILY\dosgames\ is correctly mounted as virtual C and that the prompt in dosbox shows C, not Z, I gonna suppose that by now that will be ok .....

Your inputs in dosbox: (and hit enter after every line)

cd doom
install

That will start the installation, your choices:
Accept C
Accept \doom\ as directory -(not \dooms\ see below)-
Let it run, takes some time
You'll get setupscreens automatically after the deicing,
Choices to make:

Controller: keyboard only I always play doom keyb only...

Music card: Sound blaster -> port adress 220

Sound FX : Sound Blaster -> port adress 220 ->IRQ7->DMA1
Number of channels to mix: begin with 4, doom is pretty greedy.

save and launch doom and here ya go.

To play again later:

cd doom
doom

The installer want to use dooms , but you're easier with doom as folder.
The only reason they propose dooms is because it's the shareware version. But it works fine with doom.

[Edit]
BTW, if you want to play full screen hit ALT+ENTER whilst ingame, and again to go back in window mode.