X-ComTFTDonXP? wrote:

I installed the game from the CD. I installed DosBox 0.63. I opened dosbox and wrote: mount C C:\MPS <-This is the directory tha […]
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I installed the game from the CD. I installed DosBox 0.63. I opened dosbox and wrote:
mount C C:\MPS <-This is the directory that the game is in
C:
terror

Which is when it comes up with the afforementioned error.

I also approached it another way. I tried running it straight from the CD. In this case I typed:
mount D D:\ -t cdrom
D:
terrorcd

mount d d:\ -t cdrom
mount c c:\
c:
cd mps
terror

It works perfectly.

Thanks!

You are welcome. 😎

Alright, so i'm new with this whole dosbox thing and I really can't get TFTD to work. I've tried doing what you suggested to the previous person (with modified folders to the ones on my computer), and the game crashes as soon as I hit enter after typing in terror. I have the game saved in C:\OLDGAMES\TFTD and my cdrom is my e:\ drive. Thank you for any help you provide because I feel awfully noobish.

Here's some pictures of what happens when I try to TFTD. Hopefull they show what is happening... 😒

On the first screenshot it looks like the game is looking for executable in the SOUND and UFOEXE directories but are unable to find them.

Can you post EVERYTHING that you type into DosBox to get the above errors?

By the way. DOS4GW 1.95 is quite old. You should try replacing it with version 1.97 or, better, DOS32A 7.35 - Search the forum for info.

I think your command lacks anoter \ symbol after drive letter F:

Sorry it took me a while to reply, but my power was out do to construction. Alright here's what I type in when I try to run the program. Would the old version really be the problem?

I've also tried running it with no sound, but it still doesn't work.

1. Try mounting c to c:\oldgames instead of c:\oldgames\tftd. On a real DOS machine you wouldn't be installing games to your root directory, so you shouldn't set it up that way in DOSBox.
2. Make sure that the mount settings (for both the hard drive and CD drive) to install the game from the CD are the same settings that you use to play the game. Otherwise the game will probably get confused about where things are in the virtual DOSBox environment.

Dp I have to install it using dos? Or can I just install using windows normally then run the dosbox to run the game?

It's best to install from inside of DOSBox. If you don't then you're going to have to edit config files to tell the game where to find the CD and installation directory while running inside of DOSBox (unless you mount c c:\ and mount f f:\ -t cdrom so that the same settings and paths will apply to both Windows and DOSBox)

I figured out how to install it through dosbox and it now runs perfectly! 😁 One last question though. I looked into dos32A 7.35 and I found and downloaded it, but I'm not really sure what to do with it. Ran a installer for 7.10, and updated that program to 7.35, but I'm not sure if that did anything. Is there something else I have to do?

im new to the whole dos box concept too, but following the help on this thread has helped a lot but i cannot get past the cd speed test, dos box crashes there. can you help?

We need DETAILS mrray. Download DB-INFO.BAT and save it to your game directory (next to the game). Then instead of running the game, run DB-INFO.BAT and post the info here (either write it down, or take screenshots with CTRL-F5 or ALT-PrtScr).

OBS: If you post the screenshots here, please save them as GIF or PNG files, not BMP or JPEG.

the game is in c:\mps\tftd\

the cd drive is a matshita dvd-ram uj-820s

I hope this is what you need

You haven't mounted your CD 😀

Try this (in DOSBox):

Z:\>mount D X:\ -t cdrom

(where X is the drive-letter assigned to your Matshita DVD)

You should get a reply from DOSBox saying:

MSCDEX installed.
Drive D is mounted as CDRom X:\

I can also see that you are using CPU core = normal, and CPU cycles = 3000.

You should increase the CPU cycles to maybe 10000, or 20000 (exact number depends on how fast your PC is):

Z:> config -set cpu cycles 10000

You should also try

Z:> config -set cpu core dynamic

The dynamic CPU option is faster than normal.

Then start your game.

This is what i put in to dos box and what happens when i tell it to run terror.
It runs in win95 compatability mode but at an incredible speed even on 5 sec timing.

I have tried increasing the number of cycles and changing to dynamic cpu core but dos box still crashes (at pic 2)when "terror" is run.