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#DOSBOX MOUNT .EXE#
#DOSBOX MOUNT INSTALL#
#DOSBOX MOUNT WINDOWS 10#
#DOSBOX MOUNT PLUS#

#DOSBOX MOUNT WINDOWS 10#

The first thing to try if your old game isn’t running in Windows 10 is to run it as an administrator. If you then have trouble actually running the game, the following tips should help.

#DOSBOX MOUNT INSTALL#

In this scenario however, we’d probably recommend just buying a digital version of the game instead, which is at the very least guaranteed to install on Windows 10. If you’re really desperate, you could run an older version of Windows in a Virtual Machine and install the game through that. One possible solution is to run the installer as an administrator (see below). You can find a comprehensive list of these games here). If your CD-based game is made to run with an older version of Windows, things get a bit more complicated, because old Windows installers (particularly from the ‘XP’ era and back) often aren’t compatible with modern Windows versions (as a sidenote: the few CD-based games using the SecuROM DRM won’t work in Windows 10 either. So, your command line should look something like: Z:\>D:įinally, follow the installer instructions to install your game. On the next line, enter the command corresponding to the game installer on the CD (you may need to open the CD in File Explorer to check this, but it’s usually ‘install’, ‘setup’ or ‘dos4gw’). With your CD drive now mounted in DOSBox, change the active drive in DOSBox to the CD drive by entering the command ‘D:’. Assuming this is drive ‘d’ on your PC, the command you need to enter into DOSBox is: Mount d d:\ -t cdrom -ioctl Next, you’ll need to mount your CD drive to DOSBox. To install a DOS-based CD-ROM game, first create the folder in Windows where you’d like to install it (we’ll use ‘c:\DOSGames’ as an example), then enter the following command into DOSBox: mount c c:\DOSGames

#DOSBOX MOUNT .EXE#

exe command to whatever that game or program needs.If you have a DOS game on CD-ROM, don’t add it to your kitschy CD wall mirror just yet, because you can install it using DOSBox. Point the Lutris file at the Dosbox config file as the thing to ‘start’ it,ĭosbox Config notes: if it was some other program, you’d change the cd command to the proper directory and the.put the DOS game or program directory inside the ‘c’ directory.This config file is where you’ll put the commands to change the directory to the game and run the executable to start it.

#DOSBOX MOUNT PLUS#

It will have that config file plus the ‘c’ directory.

put the specialized dosbox config file in the container folder.

Create a container folder for the game,.

In general, if you need to control how Lutris is handling the mounting of the game, this is the overall method:

That lowercase ‘c’ is very important, it tripped me up when trying this!.

Moved the dos game folder POOLRAD to ~/games/DOSGAMES/pool-of-radiance/cĪ) click the plus sign to add a new game,Į) in Game Options tab, Main File, point it to the Dosbox config file noted above Used a dosbox config file specifically built for the game, called, poolrad_nfig with the autoexec contents at the bottom of the file written as below: I got some support from a friendly person on the Lutris Discord, and got the game working!įor anyone finding this later, what we did was:Ĭreate a folder in the default Lutris games folderĬreate a folder in that pool-of-radiance folder called ‘c’ lowercase is important! Initial process has exited (return code: 256) MAIN: Draw resolution: 960圆00, double-width, double-height, pixel aspect ratio: 1.20 MAIN: Draw resolution: 640x400, pixel aspect ratio: 1.20 MAPPER: Initialized Logitech Logitech USB Keyboard Consumer Control with 0 axes, 34 buttons, and 0 hat(s) MIDI: No working MIDI device found/selected.

MIXER: Got different values from SDL: freq 44100, blocksize 1024ĪLSA: Can’t subscribe to MIDI port (65:0) nor (17:0) SDL: Mouse will move seamlessly without being captured. MAIN: Draw resolution: 640x480, pixel aspect ratio: 1.00 OPENGL: Pixel buffer object extension: available Initial process has started with pid 311699ĬONFIG: Loading primary file /home/jason/.config/dosbox/nf

Here’s my log for running the Pool of Radiance: Running gamemoderun /home/jason/.local/share/lutris/runners/dosbox/bin/dosbox /home/jason/Games/DOSGAMES/POOLRAD/start.exe -scaler normal3x