BIG TOP
- greencosmos
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- Location: Finland
It is simplicity itself, dear Watson.
You don't need a floppy drive.
Inside the archive you'll find 2 zipfiles.
BIGTOP-IMG.ZIP -> bootable game image for floppy.
FLOPPER.ZIP -> a flopdrive emulator.
Don't use the flopper emulator.
Extract bigtop.img to c:\games
Run dosbox.
Input:
boot c:\games\bigtop.img
That will boot the image.
Keep your cycles low.
Select difficulty with 1-9.
Use the numpad keys to play.
Inside the archive you'll find 2 zipfiles.
BIGTOP-IMG.ZIP -> bootable game image for floppy.
FLOPPER.ZIP -> a flopdrive emulator.
Don't use the flopper emulator.
Extract bigtop.img to c:\games
Run dosbox.
Input:
boot c:\games\bigtop.img
That will boot the image.
Keep your cycles low.
Select difficulty with 1-9.
Use the numpad keys to play.
wardrich wrote:The contrasts in personalities will deliver some SERIOUS lulz. I can't wait.
- Larry Laffer
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- Location: Romania
Ahem! Not DOS[or XP's Command Prompt], but DOSBox
That's a totally different thing
*Edit
Edited URL, was typo in it ~dosraider
That's a totally different thing
*Edit
Edited URL, was typo in it ~dosraider
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Oh my .... n00bs.....
Disregard that 'n00bs' ... my fault, I wasn't specific enough.
Of course dos don't recognise that, this isn't a MSDos command, the 'boot' command is a specific DOSBOX command.
As you can see it's used here in DOSBOX 0.72, my imgfile is on E:\.
Works flawless.
Bottom line:
Install dosbox 0.72, unzip bigtop.img in c:\games\
run dosbox
input at dosboxprompt
boot c:\games\bigtop.img
and there you go.
Whilst I'm on it ......
Lower the CPU cycles or your game will be unplayable.
To lower the CPU cycles:
hit CTRL+F11
To rise them:
hit CTRL+F12
In dosbox of course, that won't work in a MSDos command window.
Capiche?
*Edit
Kicking Larry's arse right now. How dare you post whilst I'm typing?
Disregard that 'n00bs' ... my fault, I wasn't specific enough.
Of course dos don't recognise that, this isn't a MSDos command, the 'boot' command is a specific DOSBOX command.
As you can see it's used here in DOSBOX 0.72, my imgfile is on E:\.
Works flawless.
Bottom line:
Install dosbox 0.72, unzip bigtop.img in c:\games\
run dosbox
input at dosboxprompt
boot c:\games\bigtop.img
and there you go.
Whilst I'm on it ......
Lower the CPU cycles or your game will be unplayable.
To lower the CPU cycles:
hit CTRL+F11
To rise them:
hit CTRL+F12
In dosbox of course, that won't work in a MSDos command window.
Capiche?
*Edit
Kicking Larry's arse right now. How dare you post whilst I'm typing?
wardrich wrote:The contrasts in personalities will deliver some SERIOUS lulz. I can't wait.