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please give me advice for XP [Keen Dreams]

Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:18 pm
by lars
i've tried running keen dreams a few times but i got the error that said The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application. so i downloaded DOSBox and type in like kdreams.exe, start.exe and it still wont run

help please.... i'm new at this

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Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 7:27 pm
by Guest
anybody?? :cry:

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:42 pm
by lars
i've downloaded dosbox but i dont know how to use it .........i'm new to all this... PLEASE HELP :)

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 6:43 am
by cramhains
Get Windows 98 :thumbsup:

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:16 am
by lars
how do u use dosbox

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:45 pm
by Wally
Ok

In this the game name will be 'keen7' and i will be placing the games in the directory c:\games

Type in dosbox
Mount c c:\games - This mounts your games folder which originates onto the c:\
then type c:\

Now you should see c:\ come up.
Then cd keen7
and then finally start.exe

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 6:38 pm
by lars
thank you

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:00 pm
by Wally
NP

For others who wanna know how to use dosbox look at the post up the top of Getting Games To Work

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:27 pm
by lars
one last ques. i mounted the directory then totally lost

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:03 pm
by Wally
your meaning?

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:25 pm
by lars
then I fot totally lost.....dont know how to do the rest

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:14 pm
by Wally
k
type dir to see what you have in that folder