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Darklands
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:00 am
by Charlie
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
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:04 am
by hollyfant
Have you tried the time honoured method of making a boot disk specially for the game?
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:20 am
by Charlie
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.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:44 am
by hollyfant
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.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:22 am
by Grand Fromage
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:57 am
by Charlie
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
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 3:44 pm
by hollyfant
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.
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:01 pm
by Charlie
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.