First post, by DisposableHero
I have been having huge problems installing this game on Vista, partly because it is old and largely unheard of (so little help via google), and partly because its biggest fan base (and consequently, most technical help) is in Czech! Any help at all would be apprecaited.
Research and google translator has taught me enough to know I need to use DosBox, and I've been doing pretty well on learning to pick it up. I'm trying to run this off of a .bin image. This is my present plan of attack:
Z:\>mount C "C:\Users\me\Documents\DOSBox stuff\My Game"
Drive C is mounted...
Z:\>imgmount d "C:\Users\me\Documents\DOSBox stuff\My Game\Spcross.bin" -t iso
MSCDEX installed
Drive D is mounted...
Z:\>c:
C:\>d:
D:\>install.exe
Install to C:\>Games\Spell
Everything up to this point runs fine, and the installer promptly installs the game right up until the sound configuration menu pops up, hangs for a few seconds, and closes. (In fact, its rather similar to this problem posted here: Spellcross (czech version) instalation problem). I go into the game directory where it has installed and configure the sound settings myself (using sound blaster or 100% compatible), then load up DosBox again and repeat the above up until install.exe.
Instead I reach c:\ and, browsing the dir function, locate the .exe (C:\games\spell\spelcros.exe):
Stub exec failed
dos4gw.exe
No such file or directory
Cutting a long story short, I discover that the correct command is 'c:\games\spell\dos4gw games\spell\spelcros.exe.'
At this point, I get the following two lines:
DOS/4GW Protected Mode Run-Time Version 1.97
Copyright (c) Rational Systems, Inc. 1990-1994
That would appear to me like it is the credentials for the game as it starts to launch, but nothing ever happens. I'm still sat in DOSBox, even with the .cue mounted via DaemonTools, and the 1.01 Eng patch applied. Going into the directory and double-clicking the application brings up a DOS window with what looks to be the same two lines, for an instant and then its gone.
In the link I quoted, the guy appeared to have got his game runnign anyway, despite this problem, so I can only figure I'm missing something else vital. I'm trying to get my head around what was said in that other topic in case it helps, but its slow going. Which isn't suprising, as I've only been doing this for... what, 4 hours? And before that had never heard of DosBox. In any case, I'm pretty stumped, and I'd greatly appreciate any help you might be able to offer.
