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[GTX2GvO]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Melvin @ Aug 8 2007, 08:42 PM) [snapback]303681[/snapback]</div>

When I tried it said "not enough space on destination disk". [/b]

Locate you C mount. (e.g. "mount c D:\Games\DosDir")

Add -freesize 600 in behind. (so that's "mount c D:\Games\DosDir -freesize 600")
Now DosBox will "think" Your mounted drive has 600MB of free size left. (good enough for Dos)

btw. you can substitute the 600 for any logical amount of free size in MB.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Add the -freesize x parameter to the mount command for your C drive, where x is the amount of free space (in MB) you want DOSBox to report.

[_r.u.s.s.]

did you try running on different version of dosbox and changing your "core" in dosbox config?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest_Josh_* @ Feb 18 2007, 07:52 PM) [snapback]279864[/snapback]</div>

Okay, I have had problems getting Sim Earth to work using DOSBox. I set up DOSBox 0.65 the way that it is set up via the Abandonia tutorial. I downloaded the game, and extracted the files. I renamed the folder "EARTH" (without quotes) and moved it into the CDrive. I typed :CD EARTH, and then "install". I chose install from Drive A to Drive C, yadda yadda yadda.

When it came time to install, it said "cannot find simearth.dat from drive A" or whatnot. So I looked in the EARTH folder, and lo and behold, simearth.dat was in the folder. I created a folder called ADrive and put that in my C drive (next to the DOS folder that has all the DOSBox info). I copied all the files under "EARTH" and put those into ADrive, then I ran DOSBox, and typed "mount A: C:\ADrive". My A drive is now the ADrive folder.

I reinstalled Sim Earth, same process. And everything worked smoothly. I now have a working version of Sim Earth going on right now as I type this.

I hope this helps anybody using Windows XP with DOSBox that had the same troubles.

To run the game after installation just type "simearth" (without quotes) into the prompt. And if you want to play it after that just type: "CD simearth" -> "simearth" (again, no quotes).
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worked like a charm. thanks

[gregor]

Wasn't Simearth also a win game? I could be wrong, but somehow i remember starting it from windows...

[mirrorshades]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(gregor @ Sep 20 2007, 10:10 AM) [snapback]312050[/snapback]</div>

Wasn't Simearth also a win game? I could be wrong, but somehow i remember starting it from windows...
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Game was released in 1990. So you may have played it in Windows, but it might have been Windows 3.0. :)

Although it probably ran ok in Win95, so if you didn't pick it up until a few years later it was probably no big deal.

[velik_m]

It was re-released as a win 3.1 game.

[huggypig]

I need some help with that game. i have installed it, and i can run it, too, but when i want to make a new planet, he ask me a question every time like:" How big is the Earth or something else". When i press continue, because i dont know the answer, he say, that i should look in the manual or anything that called Appendix C, to get the answer:confused:. where i can find it. please help.

(sry, when my english is bad, but iam german and new^^)

[_r.u.s.s.]

SimEarth codes.txt

[Sonic_Moronic]

When i saw the box scans update, it seemed interesting. I have to admit i never heard of it before, though...

I'm playing it now, seems pretty complicated.