Atlantico

Great job CliveBarker! It's so nice to run the program in Spanish, my second language.

Jason Carr said No worries Atlantico, instructions are buried in this super long thread; I need to find a better way to do this I guess. You can just copy the beta exe to your LaunchBox folder. You can leave your existing 3.5 LaunchBox.exe file there and copy the beta one next to it. They shouldn't get in the way of each other (and it should let you share your library). It might be wise to make a backup of your LaunchBox folder first, however, just in case. Thanks Jason!

Hi Jason, do you have any instructions on how to install the nightly build for beta testing? when I download the exe, it just self-extracts in the folder it is residing. does it conflict with my previously installed LaunchBox 3.5? I'm new to beta testing, these questions may be very silly, but I'm a bit confused.

Love the dark color scheme and have to admit that the OpenEmu look is really appealing. Anything that is tasteful and practical gets my vote. In fact the current layout is very good in most respects, a sidebar to sort different systems makes a lot of sense. I think this frontend has a lot of appeal to it already and any improvement to its looks and practicality can only make it more popular. It is the most obvious "weakness" of other Windows frontends that they are rather unappealing and Launchbox is clearly breaking that trend.

Wait, I got it working! I deleted the install and started again, and this time I did everything exactly as before except in step 10 I did not delete the destination folder mount. So both the CD image (drive D) and destination folder (drive E) are mounted and it works. However (oddly) if I remove the destination folder from mounts the behavior defaults back to the installing program and adding the destination folder (drive E) after it was once deleted does nothing to help. So as long as I don't touch the destination folder mount (drive E) after installing the game and otherwise following exactly what you wrote, the game runs and everything works 100% Again super many thanks for the instructions and for making this amazing program! It is peerless on Windows, I've looked far and wide for something like this. Cheers!

Thanks for the very detailed instructions! Everything makes more sense to me now, how LaunchBox and DOSBox interact with harddisk mounts and drives - that was the part that I had been "shielded" from by being pampered so by Boxer. I did hit a snag though, which must mean I did something wrong, I know your instructions make perfect sense. I followed your steps and everything went 100% smooth, Steps 1-9 went exactly as you described, I didn't have to change a single thing and the game installer ran, installed successfully and ran the sound setup successfully. When exiting the installer, it offered me to run the game now, but I chose not to and just exit the installer, to complete steps 10-12, which I did without having to deviate at all from your instructions. The application path is set to the destination folder specified earlier, where the game was installed (and the application chosen is TIE.EXE in this case) and the only thing mounted under the "Mounted" tab is the ISO image I made of the CD. The issue is that when I run the game it always starts the installer and not the game. The installer runs "ok" but doesn't seem to recognize any HDD mounted so all install options are greyed out (the installer says that this is because the installer program is being run from the HDD, for installing one needs to run it from the CD) The install program also refuses to setup the sound since it can't find the installation. The installer does not allow uninstalling either, since it does not "find" the install. It seems to default to drive C, I don't know if that is important because we used drive E to install the game or whether the drive letters are just placeholders with no real meaning, I forget it is a loooong time since I used DOS. This behavior is the same whether I have the ISO mounted or not, whether I point to TIE.EXE, TIEAUTO.EXE or INSTALL.EXE It does not change if I re-enable the mount of the destination folder, even though the install program seems to find the E drive. Other executables available are things to make a bootdisk and such, and just out of curiosity I did point to that program to see if the installer ran yet again, but the BOOTTIE.EXE ran normally and asked me for a floppy in drive A So the thing I don't understand is why I keep getting the install program when I choose the main program (TIE.EXE), and why is the install program behaving differently now than when I was using it to install the game in the first place. Finally just to try the obvious, I used the actual physical CD, mounted it as a folder like you instructed, but this did not work. I know I must be missing something, but I'll be darned if I know what it is!

Hi! I'm a biiig huge fan of your program, having used Boxer on the Mac, this is by far the best DOSBox app on Windows. Now being an ex Mac user and Boxer user, I never had to deal with the particulars of installing from a CD. I have TIE-Fighter (collector's edition, DOS of course) and I made an ISO image of the game so I don't have to have my BD drive occupied with the TIE-Fighter CD (in these times of ample HDD space) When I used Boxer, I just pointed to the CD, then Boxer automatically copied the entire CD and installed the game - I know LaunchBox isn't quite as automated, but I was wondering if you'd be willing to give a step by step instruction on how to install a CD-ROM game properly (linking the ISO) on LaunchBox. I would be much abliged, but either way, I just can't thank you enough for creating this program.