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st...@destry.demon.co.uk wrote:

> Could someone show me what a boot disk has on it? My own attempt loads
> the the CD driver and runs Duke3d.exe but then stalls after the
> requester:'Soundscape environment not set' (sounscape being my
> soundcard).

Are you trying to run Duke 3D off the CD?  It should be installed to
your hard drive because no CD runs the game as fast as a hard drive. 
Basically, a boot disk is inserted into the A drive before you start
your computer, so you need not make any reference to it since computers
read the A drive first.  Then, for a DOS game, you need to load DOS as
your operating system.  After that, you configure your mouse and
soundcard.  A simple DOS boot disc might have an autoexec.bat like:

SET PATH=C:\;C:\DOS
SET LMOUSE=C:\MOUSE\MOUSE
SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
SET SOUND=C:\SOUNDBLASTER\CTSND
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D0 H5 P300 E620 T6 
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0

If a game requires access to the CD, you could add something like this:

LH C:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MTMIDE01 /M:10

It is important to realize that your files and drivers are probably in
different folders than mine are, so you would have to change the
commands accordingly.  Also, a boot disk must contain config.sys and
command.com files in order to run.  I don't think you know enough about
DOS to create your own boot disk at this time, but I wanted to give you
an example so you could see some of the mistakes you made.  I suggest a
basic book on MS-DOS to give you a little more background in creating
autoexec.bat and config.sys files.