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How do you open a game in dosbox?

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I downloaded duke nukem 3d and i tried running it and i guess since i have XP it wont work and i have no idea how to open it in dosbox. Someone help.
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Err...I'm a little rusty in this buuuut....
Usually the game is on your Hard drive, eh?....
So here's what I'd do. I'll demonstrate with a different game file, because I know where the folders are to it on my system. Just follow the same basic steps, altering them depending on where your game is found.

I'll look a little like this: (The stuff you type in will be in italics)

Z:\> mount c c:\
Drive C is mounted as local directory c:\
Z:\> C:
C:\> cd progra~1 (Because it's in my program files)
C:\PROGRA~1> cd monkey~1
C:\PROGRA~1\MONKEY~1>cd lechucks
C:\PROGRA~1\MONKEY~1\LECHUCKS>monkey2.bat (That's the batch file that lets me play the game. It'd be the one you normally would click in your windows explorer.)

Make sure you mount your c Drive before trying this, otherwise nothing will work.
I hope that helped. Basically, if you've got DN 3D in your program files under one folder (So Program files->Duke Nukem 3D-->game)
then your first command is to get into Program files, then get into Duke Nukem, then load the batch file.
Depending on how many folders you have...:)
SOrry if it's confusing. It's just the way I know how to do it....
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yeah it works a little different to how dos did, put its the same priniples.
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Post by PJPsyco »

to make life easier with dosbox (like if you have 100's of dos games like myself). Go to where you installed it, and modify dosbox.conf witht he autoexec lines

mount c c:\
c:

this saves so much time

as an aside new dosbox will yell at you for this, but I've been puting mine in a folder called dosgames (becuase some like to save things to c:\), and then I don't get a messy c:\.

then its just put game in c:\dosgames\
and add

mount c c:\dosgames
c:

and viola no message, and clean c:\
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Post by Check-Mate »

Isn't that basically the same thing?
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i dont have my dos games on the local disk exatcly
i usually mount as

mount g: (for games) c:/blah blah blah>
too bad you have to remount everytime you open it.
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Agreed. I hate remounting.
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Then just do drag and drop or use a frontend. ;)
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If you are only gonna play Duke Nukem 3D then it's better to use JFDuke3D instead.
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Yes thats great. Going through making the game actually 3D.

Not everything is completed yet, but its still good.
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