First post, by 42david42
Hi!
I have been trying many times when struck by a wave of nostalgia to make my old Champioship Manager 2 95/96 work. I have the original cdrom still, but had previously been unable to use it due to the laserlock copy protection.
This is how I made it work;
First, I mounted the cdrom drive (as d) and a games folder (as c) in dosbox. Then, I installed the game from the cdrom using the install.exe file to c:\cm2.
When I tried to run the game in this situation, I was met by the error: Cannot find LASERLOCK Cdrom in any drive (or something similar).
I got past this however by mounting the cdrom drive in one of the other ways suggested by intro cdrom;
mount d e:\ (my cdrom drive) -t cdrom - label CM2 -ioctl
This did not work completely however - I got passed the copy protection, but now DOSbox just shut down when executing cm2.exe.
While browsing on your forums, I finally found peter ferriers patch on this site: http://pferrie.tripod.com/misc/dosbox.htm. I unpacked this into my cm2 folder and this worked.
I repeated all of the above steps, but instead of executing cm2.exe, I executed the patch file; cm295bfx (or cm295fix - for me it was the b-fix that worked). I was finally met by the familiar sight of my childhood favourite game. This works! I have seen many posts about this, but none that states how they make it work, so thought I would post my solution.
However! The game is running very, very slowly - it is almost unplayable, especially the matches.
I tried all the steps from the "how to speed up dosbox" guide;
- closing all other programs
- trying full screen
- turning off the scalers
- turning off the sound
- making more memory available in the .conf-file
- setting the core to dynamic
- setting frameskip to 10 and cycles to an unbelievable 1.5 mio!
Still the game is too slow.
What can I do?
btw - I am using Windows 7
