Downloaded Wetlands demo wants the CD!

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2 total messages Started by smin... DeathDad Sun, 17 Sep 1995 00:00

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Author: smin... DeathDad
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 00:00

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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 
 I installed the game to, buy it didn't help.

Any help on this problem would be immensely appreciated. Hate to think that 
12+ meg download was a waste of time.

Thanking all
DeathDad

Re: Downloaded Wetlands demo wants the CD!

#6204

Author: gr... George Ruof
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.

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