Darklands

Charlie · Post by **Charlie** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:00 am

Ok, I've downloaded this booger from Abandonia, and am trying to install it to play. I try and I try and it won't install.

I cannot seem to get it to go, please help :p

-Charlie

hollyfant · Post by **hollyfant** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:04 am

Have you tried the time honoured method of making a boot disk specially for the game?

Charlie · Post by **Charlie** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:20 am

Vincent van ’t Hof wrote:Have you tried the time honoured method of making a boot disk specially for the game?

I have no idea what a boot disk is. I had a mac for a long time till I was forced to work in wimpdoze XP, and realised that PeeCees are alot cheaper to work on.

hollyfant · Post by **hollyfant** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:44 am

I guess you don't have some old MS-DOS 6.22 disks laying about then. Did you try setting the "compatibility mode" property of the .EXE to "Windows 95"? Exactly what doesn't work anyway? Error messages, plz.

Grand Fromage · Post by **Grand Fromage** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:22 am

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

glhf

Charlie · Post by **Charlie** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:57 am

I can run other programs from DosBox, and some run better in Windows' DOS better, but I can't get this thing to simply install. Someone wanna try running it? :p

hollyfant · Post by **hollyfant** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 3:44 pm

Here's the trick:
You don't need to install it.

Just run the game in DOSBox and it works fine, albeit silently. Once you have it running, we can work on the sound.

Charlie · Post by **Charlie** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:01 pm

Works with DOSBox 7.0, with sound.

Mount c c:\
c:
chdir <darklandsdirectory>
type in "darklands" to run the exe

Wielkomen zu Deutchland und Darklands.

So far I've also downloaded x-com to see if that thing works. I got it to work after a few .... supplimental files were downloaded and copied into it's directory.

Sound, well sound works with the UrQuanMasters, and the intro to X-Com works with a soundard emulator called VMDS, but nothing else.