ZaR, to attack, press the"c" key on your keyboard, then hold alt or ctrl and press the numpad keys.. pressing teh c key first gets you into combat mode.

It's been a while, but i think that you should check reactor room before Mastaba, or not?
Anyway, i think you don't need laser really, i don't remember shooting much there. Alien will block your way so you need to get rid of it. Since you can't kill him yet, you have to make it fall. so the only solution is hand-to-hand combat, because that way you can make it fall behind and eventually to fall from the laser bridge. Other solution is to drag it to the bridge and shut it off but you need to be extra fast, i couldn't do it that way at least, so i had to fight.

Hope this helps :)

I always got a new pistol from the guard in the hall before the reactor room, and then, when I'm in the reactor room, I shoot the alien a couple times from the bridge, he charges at me, and I run and turn off the bridge and then he'll fall.. Its easier that trying to make him chase you from hand to hand combat, because he'd just walk to the bridge then run away.

Yap, that's the way to do it. I was fighting it to throw it from the bridge but i remember when playing the game when it was released that there was an easier way.

Argh!

I can't get it to run. I've adjusted the mounting and everything, but I keep getting a crash while it's loading and an error message that says it can't find emessage.txt, yet it's right there in the script folder where it's looking for it. What can I do?

Reinstall the game.

Unfortuanately I did, more than once. I'll try again just in case.

Are you sure you have unpacked the archive correctly, then? What's the precise error message?

I'm pretty sure I unpacked it correctly. It's not in funky folders or anything...

The error message is:

Cannot find file: C:\BIOFORGE\script\Emessage.txt 0

I wonder if that zero at the end is the problem or just some part of the error message. EMESSAGE.TXT is in the C:\BIOFORGE\SCRIPT folder.

C:\BIOFORGE\SCRIPT is the path in DOSBox?
Or do you mount C:\BIOFORGE as your C drive in DOSBox?
Remember that the paths in DOSBox are not the same as in Windows...