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First post, by IcarusN512

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I'm running DOSbox .72 and trying to get Bioforge working.
I mount it by typing:

"mount a C:\games\bioforge"
Goto the A: drive and run bioforge

Its goes throught the text initiation list and the screen goes grey and hangs there untill I click on it with the mouse or hit esc and DOSbox crashes spitting out an
"Exit to error: RET illigal descriptor type 0"

Thanks

Reply 1 of 6, by wildweasel

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I don't recall Bioforge being a floppy disk game...you're mounting the directory as the wrong drive. Try this instead:

mount c c:\games
c:
cd bioforge

Then run the game.

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Reply 3 of 6, by MiniMax

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And your CD is where??

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Reply 4 of 6, by Dominus

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of course it asks for a CD, it's a CD game. Mount it like wildweasel wrote, and also mount the Cd to d (e.g. "mount d d:\ -t cdrom", this is assuming your CD-Rom drive is at D:\ if it isn't then exchange the D:\ with the letter of your CD-Rom). The game works fine this way on my computer.

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Reply 5 of 6, by PointyB

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This is what I have for autoexec section of my .conf file. Change what you need and copy it to your autoexec. You cannot mount directly to the game directory.

CLS
mount d D:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0
mount c c:\games
c:
cd\bioforge
bioforge
exit