Re: A little help running an old dos game

Hi Necunoscut,

Since you're reassigned D: to your CD ROM drive,
try reinstalling the game from scratch in order to update
it's configuration and ini files so they point to the D: drive.

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Necunoscut Wrote:
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| I'm trying to get a game to run called Gender Wars. It was made way back in
| 96 and is a dos game.
|
| I can configure the sound properly using the port numbers and such that
| windows XP uses to emulate soundblaster, and installation goes well, but I
| have problems when trying to run the game. You see it doesn't recognise the
| CD is in the drive. I have tried changing the drive letter (seeing as it
| wasn't D) and even messed with the compatability settings, but with no
| success, it just doesn't think its there (I have the same problem with GTA).
| Is there a way to make it recognise the CD is there?
|
| Also it says I don't have a supported SVGA card, which is obvious seeing as
| it was made in 96, but is there a way of fooling it into thinking I have?
|
| I have tried opening it with DosBox, but I still get the CD problem.


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