And I still appreciate the (somewhat condescending) help. I will try it out again tonight just to see if I missed something the first time I tried. Ripsaw8080, I'm pretty certain one of my attempts to get this game to work did involve keeping the D path as-is. Hope this helps, any more questions anyone let me know - Cheers! □ I know that is a no no, but I'm used to dealing with DOS since DOS 6.22, so I know what I'm doing. I keep it simple, use DOSBox without any front end and mount all 4 of my drives (C D E F) as C D E F in DOSBox. Perhaps it is just copying the files, and not setting upi the game's config file properly. You mention it "installed the game for you". I suspect that your frontend is doing something to mess you up, regarding driver letters / paths etc, so try the above first. Please note, I did this in one session without closing DOSBox, so everything remains the same. Now the game will run WITHOUT the CD in the drive. Then, run SCSETUP and change the paths to C:\Games\Simcity\Video and C:\Games\Simcity\Audio, respectively, or whatever paths you wish. Copy ALL the audio/video files from the CD to these 2 folders. For example, using DOSBox, make folders C:\Games\Simcity\Video and C:\Games\Simcity\Audio. After this, if desired you may copy the AUDIO and VIDEO folders to the HDD. After the install is finished, it should run the game and play the intro movie. Install the game using INSTALL.EXE, to C:\Games\Simcity if you wish, or anywhere else This works for me: mount d: d:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl (Replace d: and 0 with your CDROM) One note, is the CD drive mounted as a CD, or just a regular MOUNT command? Type INTRO CDROM for details. Next mount the CD drive that your Interplay CD is in. When you get the prompt, mount your favorite drive as C, D, or whatever. I don't know any experience with front ends, so at least to begin with let's keep it simple and use DOSBox the ordinary way. I've done this for years, and I have just tested this all out in DOSBox not 5 minutes ago, so here is what I did: □įirst, it is perfectly possible to run this off the HDD, WITHOUT the CD, so there. One good thing is at least I've seen what you've been up to, so I can see what you've tried already. I can see you've been taking a lot of flack about this, let me try and make everyone's life simpler. Reply 14 of 32, by bacchuspupīellarmine, if you're still around, I definitely want to know. So, now, could someone who has successfully gotten this game running please tell me the steps they took? I really appreciate whatever insight someone could give me. I went through a few hours of variations of the foregoing steps, and consistently wound up with the same results. When I then hit a key, the screen goes black, it changes to a typical old-game resolution (so I know DOSBOX is doing SOMETHING), and then it tells me "unable to play intro.mve," and that I should check the Setup/Configuration screen I had just exited. It also had "Digital Sound Status: Enabled," "Video Playback Status: Enabled," "Full Screen Video: Disabled," and "Audio Help Status: Enabled." I didn't change any of those settings. I verified that the video and audio files were indeed at C:\Simcity\Video & Audio. It also gave me a path for the Video as "D:\SIMCITY\VIDEO" and Audio as "D:SIMCITY\AUDIO". It told me that my digital sound board is a Sound Blaster (correct) and the Sound Blaster info is: "Addr:0220h, IRQ:7, DMA:1" (I have no idea if this is correct). Then a SimCity CD-Rom Setup/Configuration screen came up. It installed the game for me.įor the sake of simplicity (usually, I install games to an external hard drive), I installed it right to C:\SIMCITY. Then I moved all of the files into D-Fend Reloaded, a handy frontend. Then I carefully placed the SimCity Enhanced CD Rom into the drive. Well, let me painstakingly go through just one of my many attempts that gave me the exact same results. I was hoping someone could give me the steps they took to get the game running, rather than my having to describe every failed attempt I made. I thought I DID describe exactly what I tried.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |