[The Fifth Horseman]

If I were you, I'd check if the game files (or the directory it's in) aren't set to "read only".

I don't know anything about "emualting DOS". The dude who runs this site said he uses D-fend, si I figured I'd use defend.
There is no explanation anywhere for d-fend. I can't find any information about using it at all. The stupid youtube tutorials are worthless trash cause they also don't explaina anything, only showing the various games they chose to play with it.

D-Fend is an obsolete and horribly bugged frontend. It's no longer supported or updated and so pretty much useless.

All I want to do is play a freaking old game and it's like having to spend weeks puzzling voer cryptic reponses retro gaming web sites.

Try dragging and dropping the game executable over DOSBox icon. Sometimes it works.

Or you can try a more recent frontend - like DBGL or D-Fend Reloaded.

Personally, though, I am against frontends for two reasons: they don't do anything you can't do yourself, and if you depend on them you'll be back to square one when the frontend's default config doesn't work on some game or another (or, like the old D-Fend used to, causes the game to glitch or crash)

Other than that, you might want to check the Beginner's Guide to DOSBox. It will take you about an hour to go through and once you're done you should know and have everything you need to run any DOS game in DOSBox. If any part of it confuses you, just ask about the things you don't understand and I'll gladly explain.

I read through the help here and everyone is talking about "mounting" and all sorts of other stuff that isn't shown at all in d-fend, so all this help is equally useless.

It's anything but useless. Mounting is a basic procedure used to give DOSBox access to part of your computer's hard drive contents. As I explain in the Beginner's Guide, it can be automated so that DOSBox mounts a specified directory immediately after it starts, so that after setting it up once you never need to do it again.

There was no information for pathways or directories when I downloaded this game from this site. It's not explained AT ALL where the game is SUPPOED to be saved. No directory, no pathways.

Assume a subdirectory of whatever you mount as DOSBox C drive.

I've seen people with this problem in the past but they weren't using D-fend and I don't understand what they are talking about.

Link please. I should be able to make some sense of it.