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Article #6204Re: Downloaded Wetlands demo wants the CD!
From: gr... George Ruof
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 00:00
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 00:00
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dja...@umich.edu (Douglas Jacobs) wrote: >DeathDad (smin...@epix.net) wrote: >: Hi all > >: I have just downloaded the Wetlands demo from www.nuke.com. After running the >: install.exe to setup the sound and input devices, I tried to run the demo. It >: throws me back to DOS with the message that it can't find the CD in the CD >: drive (drive G for me). I tried changing the wetlands.cfg to reflect the drive >Try using the DOS command: subst, to make the computer think that your >CD drive is actually the hard drive directory you installed the game to. > >Or, you could try to find one of those CD-emulator programs that does the >same thing (cdemu.zip is one I know of...) > >Seems pretty bizzare that a company would put out a demo that requires the >CD... That's not the problem. The demo needs to be unzipped with the -d parameter to preserve directories. Without the directories it can't find the files. We had worked it out in e-mail, so I didn't post a follow up here. ----------------------------------------------------------------- George Ruof (gr...@pacificnet.net) New World Computing, Inc. (Check out http://www.nwcomputing.com) My opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer. -----------------------------------------------------------------
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From: gr...@pacificnet.net (George Ruof) Subject: Re: Downloaded Wetlands demo wants the CD! Date: 1995/09/23 Message-ID: <4400ec$363@zippy.cais.net> X-Deja-AN: 110565312 references: <43fvds$3p6@grape.epix.net> <43vbjc$6n5@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> organization: Capital Area Internet Service in...@cais.com 703-448-4470 newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit