QUOTE(Gary @ Feb 15 2007, 05:18 PM) [snapback]279404[/snapback]
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I just do not get it! And before anyone says so... yes, I have the instructions printed off, IN HAND, as I spent hours last night trying to get Master of Orion to work.
Dell system, flat monitor, XP system.
If I take this in STAGES, so as to ensure people HELPING me (without burning you out?)... anyone willing to tell me what's wrong with the DOSBox instructions? I started file DOSBox, subfiles CDrive, Downloads and Files. Pasted Master of Orion into CDrive. I wrote EXACT into autoexec.bat, as the instruction said:
mount c c:\DOS\CDrive
mount d d:\ -t cdrom
C:
CLS
Nothing. After hours (so much for 'directions for dummies, eh?  , using mount c c:\DOSBox\CDrive... I think it was... I actually got the C; prompt, rather than the Z: prompt.
But then, message stating something about not finding the freaking CD?!
With this XP crap... what... EXACTLY... do I need to type, per the above 'mount c c:...' blah, blah, blah.
And also, please feel free to THINK of me as ignorant! I am, CPU speaking! If you explain to me like I'm a child, I shall NOT get offended... I just want to play the damned game... can you people hear me crying?? 
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there is no need to go to that much hassle -
a) unzip all files to a directory, example c:\moor
b) start dosbox
c) enter 'mount c c:\moor' ( changing if you place the directory elsewhere )
d) enter c:
e) run 'install', selecting reconfigure hardware and select older soundblaster and ( at least on my dosbox setup ) irq 5 NOT 7
f) enter orion
should run no problems
mount c c:\moor just tells dos box to set the root drive of c to c:\moor so when you enter c: and then go to the c drive you are straight into the moor directory.
some programs required a cd rom to be in the drive so would require you to mount a seperate directory as the cd rom drive and then mount another directory as your c drive but no need here
it might also be a good idea to read the dosbox guide for further explanation of why it starts at a z drive. probably not the best place for me to explain