7neal Posted July 8, 2008 Report Share Posted July 8, 2008 Hey, I am having a problem starting up the game on DosBox. I am doing the following: Z:\>mount c c:\xcom Z:\>c: C:\> This is where I am stuck. In the xcom folder, there are so many files and folders. Which one am i supposed to type in here? I've played the game plenty about a year ago, and I have simply forgotten exactly how I did this. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokk Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 what i did to get it to work was copy the disc to harddrive, then emulate the location (ie. c:\ufo) then run the game with the "go" file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantifier Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 Be careful with running just by "go", you need to make sure you run "go.bat" file. There might be "go.com" file (a leftover from 1.2 version) which hangs in 1.4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7neal Posted July 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 Alright thanks so far, but how exactly do I copy the "disk" to hardrive? I checked out my xcom folder and im guessing it would be something to do with the cdsetup.bat file? Sorry for the inconveniance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokk Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 (edited) If you got the game on a cd disc, you copy the disc to the harddrive, simply mark the files, then drag and drop to a folder of your choosing. Anyone know how to get the sound working? Edited July 10, 2008 by Tokk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7neal Posted July 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 (edited) Made alot of progress, thanks guys. What I did was... mount c c:\xcomc:small The game starts up. The problem is, I have no sound. I've checked out the "Getting DosBox Version To Work" topic, and when I try to change the dosbox.conf file like what it says in that topic, it won't let me save it. It tells me that I "cannot create the file" and to "make sure the path file and name" are correct. Also, is it 100% impossible to get sound working for this game's dosbox version sound to work? EDIT: Ok, well I finally was able to change the dosbox.conf file to what it says in that topic, so thats not a problem anymore. I guess the only problem is getting the sound to work. If ANYONE has ANY suggestions, help would be appreciated greatly, thanks. Edited July 10, 2008 by 7neal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimli Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 In my case it worked by choosing Autodetect. Ignore the test though, just run the game and see if it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VF-19 Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 I'm running this game in Dosbox as well, and it ran... well, right out of the box. However, what I do is I have a folder called dos, and that gets mounted as my C: drive. So I go:Mount c c:\dosC:cd\ufo And then I run the game. Works like a charm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[NKF] Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 (edited) I simplify the step even further and put those commands at the end of the dosbox.conf file (in the autoexec section), so it does all the drive mounting the moment I start dosbox. Having to mount and setup all your drives is time consuming if you have to do it every time! Another option is to make some batch files - which works better if you want different setups for different dos games. -- Regarding the sound, after you've set the dosbox settings, have you set the game's sound settings to match up with it? Basically type SETUP in the game directory. In the setup screen, pick SoundBlaster or SoundBlaster Pro (for stereo) and then set the base port to 220, IRQ to 5 and DMA to 1. Of course, if you set different Port, IRQ and DMA settings in the dosbox config file from that ones I mentioned, use those instead. There'll be a few other options that you can set to your preference. For the music, SB/Adlib works the best on most generic soundcards. If you're picking the SB Pro and that's not working, try going for the older SoundBlaster instead and see if that helps. This is a solution used more in sorting out X-Com Apocalypse's sound problems than in UFO/TFTD, but worth trying. - NKF Edited July 11, 2008 by NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokk Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 (edited) after installing 1,2 i get the sound to work, i think, but after giving the game the right code it locks up.. Never mind, i got it to work wiht version 1.0 by using the ufocd file to start up the game. Edited July 11, 2008 by Tokk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_fifth_horseman Posted August 10, 2008 Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 I simplify the step even further and put those commands at the end of the dosbox.conf file (in the autoexec section), so it does all the drive mounting the moment I start dosbox. Having to mount and setup all your drives is time consuming if you have to do it every time! Another option is to make some batch files - which works better if you want different setups for different dos games.I go even a step further. Since v0.70, DOSBox allows for multiple config files to be declared in the shortcut. So what I do is make a copy of the DOSBox shortcut and put this in the "target element" box: "C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.70\dosbox.exe" -conf "C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.70\dosbox.conf" -conf "C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.70\Configs\Ufo.conf" -noconsole Dosbox.conf has the following under [autoexec]:@mount c f:\dosgames\shorted -freesize 700@SET Sound=C:\SB\SBPRO@C:cls Ufo.conf has the following:[sdl]fullresolution=1024x768windowresolution=800x600output=ddrawsensitivity=100 [dosbox]language=machine=vgacaptures=capturememsize=16 [render]frameskip=1aspect=truescaler=advinterp2x [cpu]core=dynamiccycles=18000cycleup=1000cycledown=1000 [autoexec]@cd Ufo@Ufocd And Ufocd.bat itself has been modified this way:@echo offcls%1ufoexe\black%1sound\sndstart%1intro %1%1ufoexe\black%1ufoexe\geoscape "0" %1if errorlevel 2 goto begingoto end:begin%1ufoexe\black%1ufo2exe\tactical "1" %1:geo%1ufoexe\black%1ufoexe\geoscape "1" %1if errorlevel 2 goto begin:end%1sound\sndendexit What's the result? Why, my dear Watson... I double-click on the UFO: Enemy Unknown shortcut on my desktop, DOSBox starts up without the status window, immediately launching UFO and closing itself when I exit the game.Same thing can be done for TFTD and a lot of other games - I've got over a hundred different ones set up in this fashion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sectoid Scientist Posted October 29, 2011 Report Share Posted October 29, 2011 I didn't want to start a new topic so I used a similar one. I downloaded the DOS version of X-COM from Free Game Empire because I wanted to run v1.2 with with the original sound files. I got the UFO Enemy Unknown update (v1.0 to 1.2) from XCOMUFO, extracted then copied the files into my "C:\DOS Games\UFO\" directory. I then launched DOSBox and ran the UPDATE.BAT file in order to update the game to v1.2. After that I ran SETUP.EXE to get sound working, then ran UFO.BAT. The game launches and the intro plays, (the sounds are much better than I'm use to with Enemy Unknown CE), then it's time to input the correct code. I input the correct code and hit enter, the game seems to pause and I can no longer move the mouse around. Here's a picture... http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/7046/ufodefense12.th.jpg Uploaded with ImageShack.us I'm on an older HP Pavilion Laptop with an... ATI Mobility Radeon 9000/9100 128mb IGP series AGPIntel Pentium IV 3GHz Dual CoreSoundMAX Integrated Digital AudioDirectX 9.0cWindows XP SP3 DOSBox 0.74 [autoexec]# Lines in this section will be run at startup.# You can put your MOUNT lines here.mount e "C:\Dos Games\"E:\dir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sectoid Scientist Posted November 17, 2011 Report Share Posted November 17, 2011 Not long after I got a copy of UFO Defense from DopeROMs. The install is v1.2 so I don't have update it, unless I want to use v1.4. It runs great and doesn't have that problem after entering the page code. [autoexec]# Lines in this section will be run at startup.# You can put your MOUNT lines here. mount F D:\ -t cdrommount E "C:\DOSGAMES\"E: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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