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getting games that cannot be installed on CD to work??
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:04 am
by An.Kn
I have theme park on CD Rom that I cannot install onto my computer. I downloaded Dosbox, and typed in what you are supposed to for a cd about the D drive as you are supposed to correctly, but from here on in i do not know how to actually get my game to work.
also, i have rodents revenge as I had it on an old computer so would like it on this one. I downloaded it, but cant get it to work because it dosent seem to get anywer when I try.
help for either problems will be greatly apreciated
thanks
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:48 am
by dosraider
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:56 am
by An.Kn
thanks for replying, but i do not have theme park anywere on my C: drive as i cannot install it. If there is any way you can help me, please do.
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:57 am
by Guest
i am affraid i don't get what's your problem here,
so let's start over again:
1)what pc ?
2)what OS ?
3)what's the error message (if one ?)
4)what's the normal cd drive? (D?E?F?G?.....)
5)have you tried to:
- install directly from your cd?
- in your usual OS and/or DOS?
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:59 am
by dosraider
BTW:that's was me,just forgot to log in........
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:27 pm
by An.Kn
i have a fujitsu seimens laptop with windows XP installed on it. There is no error message as the trouble I am having is playing theme park on my computer that I bought on disk. I can get downloaded games to work through dosbox by putting them in my C: drive, but cannot get theme park into the C: drive as I cannot install it, there is no way i can install it as when i try to open anything on disk it says "the system file is not suitable for running ms dos and microsoft windows". I do not know if i am clicking the right things as there is nowere were it says install or anything. All i need to know is how to get my game from CD installed onto my computer so I can play it.
Any help greatly appreciated
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:50 pm
by it's me but i can't log
seems you need a look at:
http://www.dosgames.com/xphints.php
considering your problem : paragraph 4
DOSRAIDER
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:36 am
by An.Kn
i dont see how that will help me at all
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:48 am
by dosraider
OK,an.kn ,i will try to help you out off this,the problem seems that your autoexec.nt and config.nt are mess'd up.You find the appropiate files here:
http://www.dosgames.com/~wally4000/autocon.zip
Put those in your windows/system32 folder,should be fixed.
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 4:40 am
by dosraider
maybee an other trick to get your Theme park installed ,don't know if it's gonna work ,but it's worth the try:
Copy your cd to a HD dir (thempcd or whatever)) and mount the dir into dosbox.Run the install from dosbox.With a little luck the install would'n go search trough the old mscdex(usely don't)and you will be able to install it from the HD dir.Good luck.