DOS Games Discussion

I still cant install because it says my CD Rom is too slow.Ive messed with speeding it up and slowing it down with f12 and f11 but to no avail.

OS?

Im running Vista Home.Just bought Final Unity at a thrift shop.Funny thing was that the guy at the register told me i should buy it because there is no way to run it on todays computers.

Dosbox version?

mungrin wrote:.Funny thing was that the guy at the register told me i should buy it because there is no way to run it on todays computers.

He's wrong, it runs fine in dosbox.

Im using 0.73

And the usual next question:
Your mount lines?

dosraider wrote:And the usual next question:
Your mount lines?

I copied the entire CD and i had the same problem trying to install from a folder.Here is me trying to install from the CD.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v128/mungrin/DOS2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v128/mungrin/DOS.jpg

mungrin wrote: I copied the entire CD and i had the same problem trying to install from a folder.Here is me trying to install from the CD.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v128/mungrin/DOS2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v128/mungrin/DOS.jpg

Wrong, wrong, wrong, a complete screw up.
Of course you can't install the game that way, how you want the installer to create folders and copy files to a CD .....?
Back to square one with you ......

Delete ALL you've done till now, everything, yes indeed, I mean EVERYTHING.

Next, read and apply this:
Sticky: Dosbox 0.73 and Vista. [Howto]
It's there for a reason .....

After you have done that, run dosbox and input:
mount d e:\ -t cdrom
This will correctly mount your CD drive as D: (... your CD drive is E: under windows I presume?) and you will be able to install the game from D: to C:

Thank you very much.I can install the game,i can play the game,however there is no sound.Atleast i got the game to run

Try those choices:

-> click

Works fine here, voices and music.

What command line do I use to actually play the game?It worked the first time but now i cant get it to work.Also,how do i get into that settings menu in the actual game to change the audio setting?


thanks

I think i figured it out.I got the sound working as well.

You're welcome, enjoy the game.

BTW, as you probably know by now the CD drive spins a lot and you'll get some hickups ingame due to the spinup/spindown times, that's because the game was meant to run on older and slower hardware, the old CD drives were spinning around without stopping.
Easiest way to avoid this:
Create a valid ISO image from the CD and use the excellent imgmount command in dosbox to mount it as CD drive D: , then you won't need your costly CD anymore, and will avoid scratches and so on ....
No need to reinstall the game and you won't lose the saved games.
An good program top create a valid and dosbox compatible image is:
http://www.imgburn.com/

For the others who can't figure it out how to reconfigure the game settings:
If you followed the dosbox howto correctly, run dosbox and to configure the game input:

cd sttng
setup
This will launch the hardware config program.

hey thanks for the advice. loved this game when i was younger. got it running on my vista laptop with a few tweaks...

may be a stupid question but is there anyway to get the dosbox window fullscreen? playing the game in a small window is a bit lame...

ALT+ENTER to toggle between window/full screen.

Not that it's always a good idea to go full screen.
You also can stretch the dosbox window by editing the dosbox conf file.
Look under header [SDL] and:

fullscreen=false
fulldouble=false
fullresolution=original
windowresolution=1024x768 *
output=ddraw

* or 800x600 .... what suits you best.

STAFU running in dosbox. Fake cd drive mounted as mount d c:\(copied CD files directory). -t cdrom -label STARTREK . Installed files mounted as mount c c:\(installed files directory).

The game works perfectly, except for the fact that I can't save games. Typing in a save game name and pressing enter just dismisses the menu and takes me back to the game; when I go back later to try and load the game, it's as though I never did it.

Any thoughts on what my problem could be?

OS?

XP

KrazyCaley wrote:XP

Now then your mount is wrong.
Do NOT mount the games folder directly, mount \oldgames\ as virtual C: in dosbox and do a

cd foldername

From your C: prompt in dosbox.
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5443

And you won't get an error message whilst using a normal "" in autoexec.
If you get an error it's because there is a screw up.

KrazyCaley wrote:STAFU running in dosbox. Fake cd drive mounted as mount d c:\(copied CD files directory). -t cdrom -label STARTREK . Installed files mounted as mount c c:\(installed files directory).

Your CD mount isn't really 100% .... don't you have the CD or CD image ?
No need for those weird mountings in dosbox 0.74, problems with STTNG-AFU/Dosbox are solved, read the first pagina.
Keep it simple, works best of all.

Of course you need or the original CD or a valid CD image.

Install the game from D: on C: in dosbox.

HI,

Hopefully someone can help, I have the game running great sound, video e.t.c.

And even though i have created a savegame in the folder the game is installed in i still cant save the game, I choose a slot press enter to save and nothing happens, I go to load game to check and it is empty.

Any ideas ?