Always this screen when play DosBox

[Dragu]

@charlesmarried
@voljega

Yes, there is a problem, you must not mount the local disk, it is done by dosbox. I suspect something else if he jump out from dosbox.bat.
Is your crack.exe perhaps a windows program and not a dos program ?
Very easy to see, just start him manually from the commandline.

[charlesmarried]

I still having problems, even with a Alone in the dark with INDARK.EXE

I do as you said, and dosbox dont recognized the C partition, even withouit with it in the dosbox.bat

Could you give me a .rar with the game configured even via PM? That i could see what am i doing wrong.

Thank you @Dragu @voljega

[Dragu]

@charlesmarried
Stay on Z: and make one time "DIR"
He should show you your game files and also (cheese)crack(er).exe.
Now if it is the case, just start crack.exe and tell us what he says.

[voljega]

@dragu no I think there is a problem,the lines i've quoted must appear even if dosbox.bat is empty, it is the internal mounting by dosbox, and then the explicit call to dosbox.bat.

So in case something seems wrong even before dosbox.bat is called

[voljega]

@charlesmarried it is forbidden to post link or ask for copyrighted content on the forum, so please respect that

[charlesmarried]

@Dragu @voljega

When I do the DIR it appears:

I dont knnow what is happening.

Sorry for infringe upon the rules.

[voljega]

@charlesmarried try with
MOUNT C "./recalbox/share/roms/dos/alone.pc"

DIR

[charlesmarried]

I can mount as you said and appears in DIR all the archives of the game, but when I type INDARK.EXE this appears:

u_u

Thank you again @voljega

[voljega]

@charlesmarried ok so the full content of your DOSBOXBAT should be :

MOUNT C "./recalbox/share/roms/dos/alone.pc"
C:
imgmount d .\cd\alone1.cue -t cdrom
pause
c:
INDARK

you may have to rename the cue file in the cd subdir to alone1.cue, the bin file to alone1.bin and edit the content of the cue file : first line should refer to the right bin name alone1.bin :

FILE "alone1.bin" BINARY

all bin and cue names should use lowercase and nothing else

The pause command should indicate you if the mount of the cd went well

[charlesmarried]

@voljega

Thank you! Tomorrow I will try, now is late. Thank You.

[Dragu]

@voljega

In the dosbox.bat it is not necessary to mount Just if you make some manipulation outside from the dosbox.bat file.
The drive is automatically mounted before dosbox.bat started.
You can control this very easy if you make a small dosbox.bat with just the lines

CLS
DIR/P
EXIT

or just this to see what he does, this 1 line dosbox.bat

CHOICE

Even when you are starting dosbox.bat on Z: he will display you the directory in

[voljega]

@dragu yeah i know but re-read the whole thread : this is exactlty the problem for him apparently : his dosbox doesn't mount c or something

You cansee that in his first screenshot

[Dragu]

@voljega
I think that his crack program was not running under dosbox (perhaps windows program?) and when the dosbox.bat has a bad program inside, he returns to z:
With the 1 line bat "CHOICE" you see best the mount before dosbox.bat is started.

When you start dosbox with the directory behind as the recalbox launcher make, dosbox from himself automatically mount It is in the binary from dosbox.

[voljega]

@dragu said in Always this screen when play DosBox:

I think that his crack program was not running under dosbox (perhaps windows program?) and when the dosbox.bat has a bad program inside, he returns to z:

But then we should at least see in the dos screen the mounting of and the explicit call to dosbox.bat and there is nothing... even with an empty dosbox.bat or with just dir where it show only the content of Z:

So it's not working even when not calling the crack exe

[Dragu]

@voljega
The disc is just mounted during the execution of dosbox.bat, so with empty or fault inside, you will not see it on the screen. Tryout by yourself with 1 line bat and "choice or "pause" in this line. Till the program is activ, dosbox.bat is activ and mounted. After exit from dosbox.bat, dont exist anymore. He returns to Z:

[voljega]

@dragu ok but I was under the impression that he tested with just pause.

at least it didn't work with just DIR in dosbow.bat, C was not mounted because wouldn't work ?

[Dragu]

@voljega
It works, but you dont see the result anymore
Try onetime with DIR/P (what makes him stopping and not ending dosbox.bat), you will see the directory

[voljega]

@dragu ok we'll see when @charlesmarried comes back and try to remove the first two lines

[charlesmarried]

I do all the changes you said... the same problem. I desist... I will wait til an image with a folder configured of msdos games because I cannot fix the problem.

Thank you for all @Dragu @voljega

[voljega]

@dragu ok for the sake of documentation @charlesmarried managed to make the game work, so in the end the problem was indeed the calling of a windows exe like you said