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John Roxton

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  1. On 12/7/2017 at 9:50 PM, JamesBond@ge said:

    Why would Dosbox pop up if you are installing these from their original 1990's CD's? Have you set Dosbox to run these somehow?

    You made a good point, so I completely uninstalled the games, reinstalled them, and imported them into Launchbox as Windows games, and now I'm getting the same result trying to play these as I did trying to play them outside of Launchbox :/ I was hoping Launchbox would emulate the older systems somehow, but I'm getting the same error I was getting before.

     

    Regarding this other suggestion,

    On 12/8/2017 at 8:57 AM, cleverest said:

    I have issues with some games in the TOTAL DOS collection  too (I'm using release 13); what fixes many of them is running the setup for them again (although it doesn't fix them all),.

    To do this: right-click the game, and choose near the top of that menu to CONFIG the game...if that option is missing, it needs to be pointed to the right EXE....so right click the game, and EDIT it...go to the launcher area that shows the EXE that is loaded when you double click it, and look for the field below it for the INSTALLER, browse and choose the INSTALL/setup.EXE (can be named anything, but usually something like that), then click to OK that....right-click and choose CONFIG...then when the DOSBOX opens the installer, go through the setup, always picking the default C drive to install (it actually treats this so called C drive as the folder in your actual folder you have the game stored, so don't change that, just pick the C drive it gives you in most cases, if it gives you a choice of C, D, E,...always pick C...when asked for soundcard/music card, just choose soundblaster or soundblaster 16, complete the install/setup) and then make sure under EDIT again that the game matches the correct .EXE under where it is launching, sometimes LB auto sets the wrong .exe file....

    I looked for the config button, but it was grayed out, presumably because my games are not DOS games, they're 90's Windows games. I felt dumb when I realized that, for what it's worth.

    So to reiterate, I'm a real noob at LaunchBox. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way I could be using the application to solve my problems? Or should I be looking for a solution somewhere else because Launchbox won't do what I want it to? (I came to Launchbox in the first place because I have yet to successfully run any of my old PC games on my brand new Windows 10 machine).

     

    Thanks again for the help. Was feeling quite alone out here.

  2. Hey all, new to LaunchBox here, looking forward to playing all my old PC games. I have the CD's and all, and the installations seem to be going okay, but when I try to play the games (the CD is in the drive), Dosbox initially pops up and then... nothing. What gives? How do I go about troubleshooting this?

    Running Windows 10, on a fairly powerful PC, nothing super extreme.

    The game I have been trying is Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, also tried Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

     

    Thanks in advance. Totally lost noob here.

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