Mount commands?

Mounts are correct.That,if you don't mind me saying, is pretty basic.

I should say have tried multiple installs and all that, as i spend hours trying to find the answer before I post here so I don't waste people's time! 😀

Your thread, your problem. Have fun. Bye.

...Sorry, did I offend you?

how can you be sure that your mount are correct ?

POST THEM!

Meanwhile, first guess is running out of file handles...
You might try increasing the count.

I don't think you can run out of file handles in DOSBox (?)

Work fine for me with no special configuration. Of course without knowing your mount commands...

Probably a case of 'mount c c:\dynamix\aodcd'...

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Firstly I have mounted to c c:\dynamix\aodcd and m m:\ -t cdrom. I have also used the D.O.G. front end to tweak all the various options to try.

I have narrowed it down to a weirder problem:

On the second try I managed to get the game running by installing the game from within DOSBox, I thought I had solved the problem, without knowing how (this was using DOSBox 0.72). But on quitting the game and then restarting it, from D.O.G or manually within DOSBox, I get the same 'HMI Error: sw_sound etc' error as shown above. I then reinstall the game from CD within DOSBox and it works again!

So basically, to play the game at the moment, I have to re-install it every time!

This tells me that something is going on with the program or the conf file so that while that game is successfully being played, or when I quit from the game, something is written to the files/conf file to stop the game working again!

I have never come across anything like this before! When you consider I have 23 DOS games in my D.O.G. game list, and all the others work perfectly! I have had problems, but generally it's getting a game to run in XP. I can't remember the last time I had grief within DOSBox!

Thanks for all the help through. I appreciate it.

Stick to the EXACT mounting that you had when installing the game.
If there are still problems please post the mounting lines used when
installing the game as well as when playing it.

try mount c c:\ instead of the one you use now for c:\
and no your mounts aren't correct. They can't be more wrong.
using m for the cdrom inside dosbox....

Pleased to tell you that mounting c c:\ seems to have fixed the problem!

QBix, my DVD is M as I have multiple hard drives. For all previous DOS games I have just mounted M as M: with no problem, so generally, although you can set any letter within DOSBox for your DVD drive, I have never had a problem using M as M:

I should also state that with every other DOS game I have install in D.O.G using the directory fully has never caused a problem. I have also shied away from mounting c c:\ because DOSBox and D.O.G. both complain about doing that!

In any event, mounting c c:\ and m m:\ -t cdrom did the trick, so thanks very very much for all your help! I bought the CD version for the speech pack and the online manual with loads of info and videos on German U Boats and their captains.

I have played a couple convoy missions to learn the ropes and the game is as fantastic as I was hoping/other people were saying it was!

Thanks again guys!!!! You're troopers (or should I say submariners!)!!! 😀

I should also state that with every other DOS game I have install in D.O.G using the directory fully has never caused a problem. I have also shied away from mounting c c:\ because DOSBox and D.O.G. both complain about doing that!

It works for some games but fails for many others (those that write to some configuration file, where they have been installed). Same goes for mounting the CD-Rom like this. Safe and best is to always mount to d. in your case
mount d m:\ -t cdrom

Next time when you want help, you should do as the people wanting to help you say.

UK_John wrote:

Mounts are correct.That,if you don't mind me saying, is pretty basic.

I should say have tried multiple installs and all that, as i spend hours trying to find the answer before I post here so I don't waste people's time! 😀

Here - have some humble pie:

Qbix wrote:

and no your mounts aren't correct. They can't be more wrong. using m for the cdrom inside dosbox....

Qbix this may be a result of dosbox intro text. Right now it is suggesting using c for c and d for d.

You should change it this way:

---------------------------------------------------------
in intro mount:
change c:\dosprog\ into f:\dosgames\
---------------------------------------------------------
in intro cdrom:
change that red D:\ into G:\
---------------------------------------------------------

I also changed "dosprog" into "dosgames" cause dosprog is singular and suggest game's folder name, while it is not recomended to mount game folder. And that is what UK_John did.
I would also change "you have to mount the directory containing the files" into "you have to mount the directory containing your games" bacause "the files" also suggest mounting game's directory. It may also encoulrage people to make a folder "games" with all their games.

In the readme it is mostly OK, but I think there should absolutely no suggestions for using c for c so some more changes in the readme:

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readme:
Windows: -c "mount c 'c:\program files\'" -----> into e:\program...
----------------------------------------------------------
readme:
dosbox c:\atlantis\atlantis.exe -c "MOUNT D C:\SAVES" ------> into f:\atlantis\atlantis.exe -c "MOUNT D f:\SAVES"
--------------------------------------------------------------------
readme:
So MOUNT C C:\GAMES tells DOSBox to use your C:\GAMES directory as drive C: -----------> into E:\GAMES
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the pie MiniMax - very tasty!

For everybody else, in my defence, there is always a learning curve with each and every DOS, Win 3.1 or Win98 game you install in DOSBox/Virtual PC/XP on a modern PC. I have installed dozens of DOS games into DOSBox and never used mount c c:\ as I have been warned off. I have always point to the directory the game files are in and I have always (well at least the last 3 years) used my mounted my DVD drive as M:\. This has not caused me any problems with any previous games.

Of course, now I have fixed the AOD CD problem using mount c c:\ I will now add that to my roster of tests when I have a problem. Justb like all the other tests i now make based on previous situations. Isn't that what we all do? Isn't that what makes us 'experts'?

So today I have learnt something else that I will register for next time! 😀 I think you can see by the number of posts I have made with a problem, that mostly I solve them myself. Because of the error message given, I was thrown for a loop and knew i'd get help here! So thanks again!

robertmo wrote:

Qbix this may be a result of dosbox intro text. Right now it is suggesting using c for c and d for d. […]
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Qbix wrote:

and no your mounts aren't correct. They can't be more wrong. using m for the cdrom inside dosbox....

Qbix this may be a result of dosbox intro text. Right now it is suggesting using c for c and d for d.

You should change it this way:

---------------------------------------------------------
in intro mount:
change c:\dosprog\ into f:\dosgames\
---------------------------------------------------------
in intro cdrom:
change that red D:\ into G:\
---------------------------------------------------------

I also changed "dosprog" into "dosgames" cause dosprog is singular and suggest game's folder name, while it is not recomended to mount game folder. And that is what UK_John did.
I would also change "you have to mount the directory containing the files" into "you have to mount the directory containing your games" bacause "the files" also suggest mounting game's directory. It may also encoulrage people to make a folder "games" with all their games.

In the readme it is mostly OK, but I think there should absolutely no suggestions for using c for c so some more changes in the readme:

-------------------------------------------------------
readme:
Windows: -c "mount c 'c:\program files\'" -----> into e:\program...
----------------------------------------------------------
readme:
dosbox c:\atlantis\atlantis.exe -c "MOUNT D C:\SAVES" ------> into f:\atlantis\atlantis.exe -c "MOUNT D f:\SAVES"
--------------------------------------------------------------------
readme:
So MOUNT C C:\GAMES tells DOSBox to use your C:\GAMES directory as drive C: -----------> into E:\GAMES
-------------------------------------------------------------------

I think mentioning games specifically in the intro would be a mistake since other things than games can be mounted and it does seem like alot of businesses and home users use DOSBox for things other than games.

No matter what you do people are still going to mount the game folders directly instead of creating a subdirectory. It's a failure of understanding on their part to a a lack of knowledge on how DOS programs work. The only solution there is prepackaged games and a forced GUI so they don't have to deal with mounting their own games.

Most computers don't have more than one hard drive or partition. Mentioning anything other than "c" for an HD mount could be confusing. We'd probably get alot of questions why DOSBox is telling them to mount their CDROM letter as a C mount.

Also most computers do have the D or E drives as their CDROM.....