DOS Games Discussion

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???

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?

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."

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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>

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.

wow, am i dumb. my apologies.

that worked

followed the mount to d

installed correctly

thanks a million

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?

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

awesome

thank you so much