Trying to play NBA Live 95 on Windows 7

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:52 am

I am trying to get NBA Live 95 to work on my Windows 7 HP laptop. I've read other articles and forums, but nothing I do seems to work.

Can anyone please help me???

Post by **dosraider** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:17 pm

Anonymous wrote:...but nothing I do seems to work.

Elaborate on that "nothing" please, what did you try till now?

Win7, 32 or 64?

Do you have the original game?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:25 pm

I have the original disk in my drive, E. I mounted it correctly.

I'm at E:\NBA95>

I try running the exe file, but when I try to run/install it says "Please run INSTALL from your CD."

Post by **dosraider** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:29 pm

Anonymous wrote:I have the original disk in my drive, E. I mounted it correctly.

I'm at E:\NBA95>

You really gonna need to be more communicative .....

Anonymous wrote: I mounted it correctly.

Mounted in what ?
What is correctly? Could you tell us how you did that?

Anonymous wrote:I'm at E:\NBA95>

In what? E:\NBA95 prompt in windows command window? VPC? Dosbox? What?

Could you please be a bit more in to details?

I already can tell you that if you're in dosbox "E:\NBA95" is completely wrong.
But that's also all I can tell from what you've posted.

It's impossible for me to help you with the scarce info you provide.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:15 pm

alright, well I'm obviously doing something wrong then.

I'm trying to run it in dosbox .74

I have a brand new hp laptop, 64-bit

I have the original cd in the e drive

Is there any other info I can provide?

Is there any way you can give me some steps to follow in order to mount it, in dosbox, and install correctly?

Post by **dosraider** » Fri Dec 16, 2011 1:18 am

First of all, under Win7 it's really important to correctly mount a virtual C
Please read and apply:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13511

Mounting a CD in dosbox is always done as drive D: , regardless what the drive letter is under Windows. Windows drive letters have no relevance towards dosbox drive mounts.
As your CD drive is E your mount line must be:
mount d e:\ -t cdrom

Install the game from D: to C: within dosbox.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 4:59 pm

Ok, I followed that.

I mounted the d drive as you said.

D:\>install

but then it says:
"Your hard disk is full.
You need to delete some files before you can install the game."

Could it be that my d drive is my recovery?
The game is not that big and I still have 1.63 gb free on my d drive

Post by **dosraider** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 5:57 pm

Anonymous wrote:I mounted the d drive as you said.

That won't do here.

Post all your mount lines, in detail please, and your inputs.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 6:22 pm

ok. again, I'm using DOSBox .74
The original NBA Live 95 cd in my e drive

I open DOSBox

Z:\>mount c "c:\users\your name\oldgames"
Directory c:\users\your name\oldgames doesn't exist.

Z:\>c:
Drive C does not exist!
You must mount it first. Type intro or intro mount for more information

Z:\>mount d e:\ -t cdrom
MSCDEX installed
Drive D is mounted as CDRom e:\

Z:\>d:

d:\>install
DOS/4GW Professional Protected Mode Run-time Version 1.97
Copyright (c) Rational Systems, Inc. 1990-1994

Your hard disk is full.
You need to delete some files before you can install the game.

D:\NBA95>

Post by **dosraider** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 1:31 am

Anonymous wrote:Z:\>mount c "c:\users\your name\oldgames"
Directory c:\users\your name\oldgames doesn't exist.

What?
Is your user name under Win "your name" ???

Dosbox can only work with a virtual C mounted correctly.

dosraider wrote:First of all, under Win7 it's really important to correctly mount a virtual C
Please read and apply:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13511.

Replace "your name" by your user name under Windows.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 9:38 am

wow, am i dumb. my apologies.

that worked

followed the mount to d

installed correctly

thanks a million

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 9:53 am

however, i played the game. but then I exit dosbox.

i open dosbox back up. but the only way to play is if i install the game again.

does it not install to the computer at all?
do i need to install the game everytime i open dosbox?

Post by **dosraider** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 10:03 am

Ehm, no, install is only needed once, then:

launch the game from c:\nba95\ in dosbox, not from d: , however you must of course first mount your CD as D: also.

In short:
launch dosbox, mount CD and do a
cd nba95
on your c: prompt in dosbox so you get c:\nba95> prompt

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 11:40 am

awesome

thank you so much