DOS Games Discussion

Hi, i am trying to install toonstruck on my windows XP PC but it won't bcos Dos4gw is in protected mode so i downloaded dosbox to run it as suggested but i am getting very confused bcos i have never really used dos b4, anyway i had copied the contents of disc 1 to my desktop then in dosbox i mounted a folder containing it all to the dosbox directory but i still can't figure out how to run the dos4gw in tht folder

Can any1 help me

right I am now a member and have got it installed but i now can't load it, in dosbox it says the video mode is not supported and in dos it loads it up but it stays black, plz can sum1 help me

thanx

i dont know

Get out more for god sake. play video games on a video games consol instead of a PC and go out get some friends and quit playing with ur stupid Pc and go join the real world! its much more fun! yea sure PCs are all good and everything... just not all day everyday.

Get out more for god sake. play video games on a video games consol instead of a PC and go out get some friends and quit playing with ur stupid Pc and go join the real world! its much more fun! yea sure PCs are all good and everything... just not all day everyday.

Have you run the video setup?

I sorted out the video problem but i now have another problem


this is the message that comes up in dosbox when i run toonstrk.bat

"ERROR: Drive C: is not a CD-ROM Drive.
You may need to reinstall or edit 'TOONSTRk.CFG' to set 'CD = ?:\' ,
where?is the drive letter of your CD_ROM Drive.
Continue? (Y/N)"

if i choose yes it starts loading up but then asks for disc 1, so i edited it to the D:\ drive which the same thing happend except it saying Drive D and not Drive C and also the same thing happens with Drive E

y is it still thinking it is not a disc drive

In DOSBox you can mount a drive as a CD drive. e.g. if your game was in C:\games\toon and you wanted to mount it as a cd drive do this:

mount d c:\games\toon -t cdrom

Now the D drive is a CD-ROM drive with the contents of C:\games\toon in it

I have this game (but it was on a ripoff cd called PC games) but i can't run it, it won't show the game on my screen! I run a Win95 comp.

Thanx DarkMystic it doesn't moan about it not being a disc drive anymore but when the game loads it is still asking for disc1 altho it is in the drive

In which case we're getting closer. Ok I don't have access to the game (a download or the money to buy it :p) so I can't do much here other than guess for you. Ok, we'll take an example where the game is in C:\games\toons. ok?

Edit C:\games\toons\Toonstrk.cfg
Set CD = D:\
Make sure you save the file as text only.

Now right click on C:\games\toons and select properties and make sure none of the files are read-only. (can cause problems with many games so I like to check - you can try it with and without this step if you wish )

Open dosbox and type:
mount c c:\games\toons
mount d c:\games\toons -t cdrom
c:
(now type the executable file for toonstruck e.g. toonstruck.exe)

Now what does it say? Also I notice you are running a batch file 'toonstrk.bat'. Can you edit that file in notepad for me and let me know what it says. It may have something restrictive in it. One doesn't know until one edits them Sorry I can't help more than to guess

tht didn't wrk but i changed it around slightly and it now does i will now run it and check for sound and vid problems then post wether everything alright or wether it is messed up

thx for the help DarkMystic

update: yes it works perfectly btw i have recorded wot i have done on notepad and if anybody wants me to post it i will

Guest wrote:Hi, i am trying to install toonstruck on my windows XP PC but it won't bcos Dos4gw is in protected mode so i downloaded dosbox to run it as suggested but i am getting very confused bcos i have never really used dos b4, anyway i had copied the contents of disc 1 to my desktop then in dosbox i mounted a folder containing it all to the dosbox directory but i still can't figure out how to run the dos4gw in tht folder

Can any1 help me

sorry, i cant help you. i have got the same problem

Metallica wrote: yes it works perfectly btw i have recorded wot i have done on notepad and if anybody wants me to post it i will

Please Post it

Yes, please post it

Yeah, please post it!!!

Kack Wurst wrote:

Metallica wrote: yes it works perfectly btw i have recorded wot i have done on notepad and if anybody wants me to post it i will

Please Post it

hi i am new in the forum and if you could help me i will be thankfull. I downloaded dragonball vs street fighter on my pc running in windows xp. I then had to download dosbox to make it work but it still shows an error saying can't change video mode. thank you very much