🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi, I run win98 as well and I don't get this problem.

Not to insult your intelligence, but do you quit windows and go to the DOS
prompt?  Not being an expert, but I have been able to run the set up from
DOS with no problem, but I am running TFTD - I know there are some
differences, but how this effects each game I would not like to say.

Sorry if it's not very helpful, but I thought I would try to give another
perspective.

Detonate

Hey no problem, it's a legit question.  The problem is that I'm running this
on a SCSI CDROM drive (it's a Pinnacle CDR actually) and I have no idea how
to set this thing up for a DOS session.  I suppose I'm going to have to ask
Pinnacle, but they're a last resort assistance situation.  Not real helpful
those folks.  Basically when I go to DOS I only have a mouse, no CD
whatsoever.  When I do a Win98/DOS window, I do have all the needed drivers,
but no sound effects.  It's weird, no sound but I get music?  But the CD
does work so I could install the game with no problem.  When I set up my
icon to really drop to DOS (not a window) it just locks up.  I'm it's
because it tries to hit a CD that doesn't exist for my DOS session.

But keep those ideas coming!  And thanks.


Detonate wrote in message
<906251404.12783.0...@news.demon.co.uk>...
>Hi, I run win98 as well and I don't get this problem.
>
>Not to insult your intelligence, but do you quit windows and go to the DOS
>prompt?  Not being an expert, but I have been able to run the set up from
>DOS with no problem, but I am running TFTD - I know there are some
>differences, but how this effects each game I would not like to say.
>
>Sorry if it's not very helpful, but I thought I would try to give another
>perspective.
>
>Detonate
>
>

D.O.H. wrote in message <6u5q6u$m...@nntp1.erinet.com>...
>Hey no problem, it's a legit question.  The problem is that I'm running
this
>on a SCSI CDROM drive (it's a Pinnacle CDR actually) and I have no idea how
>to set this thing up for a DOS session.  I suppose I'm going to have to ask
>Pinnacle, but they're a last resort assistance situation.  Not real helpful
>those folks.  Basically when I go to DOS I only have a mouse, no CD
>whatsoever.  When I do a Win98/DOS window, I do have all the needed
drivers,
>but no sound effects.  It's weird, no sound but I get music?  But the CD
>does work so I could install the game with no problem.  When I set up my
>icon to really drop to DOS (not a window) it just locks up.  I'm it's
>because it tries to hit a CD that doesn't exist for my DOS session.
>
>But keep those ideas coming!  And thanks.
>

I didn't see the first post, so I'm not sure if this is relevant but:


I had a problem when I installed XCOM on my P166 using a DOS box for the
install.  After installing, it would run the intro movie, then crash.
Finallly, I had to make a DOS mode shortcut with custom bootfiles, allowing
high enough conventional memory and loading CDROM drivers.  Then after I
installed from this true DOS mode, the game ran just fine in DOS windows,
and I could have XCOM Util in one window,and the game in the other, and
ALt-Tab back and forth.

Someone else had the same problem and fixed it the same way.

If you can't figure out how to get the CD in a true DOS session, then one
thing you might try is to install it in a true DOS session onto a ZIP disk
on another computer and move the ZIP disk to yours, or do it over a
LAN..either by installing it in a true DOS mode on the other computer and
copying it over, or using the other machine's CDROM (could get complicated).
Once the game is installed, you can copy the whole thing all over the place
and not worry.  I moved it from my p166 to my new P2 that way.

Nick J