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    • charlesmarried
      charlesmarried last edited by

      I do all as the readme said and always appear this screen under the letter Z:

      alt text

      What I do wrong?

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      • voljega
        voljega Banned @charlesmarried last edited by voljega

        @charlesmarried it's difficult to know without seeing your dosbox.bat

        more info on dosbox :
        https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/How-to-use-DOSBox-to-emulate-DOS-games

        but I don't understand what your window is, are you even using Recalbox ?

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        • voljega
          voljega Banned @charlesmarried last edited by

          @charlesmarried the z: is perfectly normal this is how dosbow handles its internal things.

          byt you likely didn't put anything into dosbox.bat, you should at least have :
          πŸ˜„
          and then call the executable of your game like
          WW.EXE
          or
          WW

          if you have a WW.EXE file

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          • charlesmarried
            charlesmarried last edited by

            So I have to put always

            πŸ˜„
            xxxx.exe

            in a txt rename as dosbox.bat, all inside a folder rename as xxxx.pc and thatΒ΄s all?

            Thank you

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            • voljega
              voljega Banned @charlesmarried last edited by

              @charlesmarried did you even read the link I shared ?

              no that's not all it will work for most games but not all of them

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              • charlesmarried
                charlesmarried last edited by

                Hi again and thank you! I read all and I still having problems.

                I put some screenshots...

                alt text
                alt text
                alt text

                What is bad? Always appears the Z: screen. It supposed to load automatically the game, isnt it?

                Trank you!

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                • voljega
                  voljega Banned @charlesmarried last edited by

                  @charlesmarried as I said before the Z: SCREEN IS NORMAL

                  but you see both your πŸ˜„ command and the one after one the screen no ?and maybe something else
                  if not try to put a pause on the line after CRACK.EXE and show me a screenshot

                  now as you're using a cracked version, so I don't know how it is supposed to work, does it work on your windows pc ?

                  if it is alone in the dark my uncracked version launches INDARK.EXE, not CRACK.EXE

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                  • charlesmarried
                    charlesmarried @voljega last edited by

                    @voljega

                    The game works perfectly in Windows via Dos Box. This is the image that appears after doing all that you said:

                    alt text

                    Thank you, @voljega

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                    • voljega
                      voljega Banned @charlesmarried last edited by voljega

                      @charlesmarried yeah i retake some of what is aid because you are missing a few line which should appear event with en empty dosbox.bat :

                      Z:\>MOUNT C ".recalbox/share/roms/dos/alone.pc"
                      Drive C is mounted as local directory recalbox/share/roms/dos/alone.pc
                      
                      Z:\>C:
                      C:\>CALL DOSBOX.BAT
                      

                      this should appear automatically so i'm a bit at a loss here, maybe check the permissions of your dosbox.bat file or that it is well named ?

                      calling a few other people who might have an idea : @Dragu ? @rockaddicted ?

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                      • Dragu
                        Dragu Banned last edited by 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.

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                        • charlesmarried
                          charlesmarried last edited by 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

                          alt text
                          alt text

                          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

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                          • Dragu
                            Dragu Banned last edited by

                            @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. πŸ™‚

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                            • voljega
                              voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by

                              @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

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                              • voljega
                                voljega Banned @charlesmarried last edited by

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

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                                • charlesmarried
                                  charlesmarried last edited by

                                  @Dragu @voljega

                                  When I do the DIR it appears:

                                  alt text

                                  I dont knnow what is happening.

                                  Sorry for infringe upon the rules.

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                                  • voljega
                                    voljega Banned @charlesmarried last edited by

                                    @charlesmarried try with
                                    MOUNT C "./recalbox/share/roms/dos/alone.pc"
                                    πŸ˜„
                                    DIR

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                                    • charlesmarried
                                      charlesmarried last edited by charlesmarried

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

                                      alt text

                                      u_u

                                      Thank you again @voljega

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                                      • voljega
                                        voljega Banned @charlesmarried last edited by 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

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                                        • charlesmarried
                                          charlesmarried @voljega last edited by

                                          @voljega

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

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                                          • Dragu
                                            Dragu Banned last edited by Dragu

                                            @voljega

                                            In the dosbox.bat it is not necessary to mount πŸ˜„ Just if you make some manipulation outside from the dosbox.bat file.
                                            The drive πŸ˜„ 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 πŸ˜„
                                            πŸ™‚

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