ms-dos

[shadowwoelf]

ummm how do i enter dos prompt

[onewecallgod]

start -> run -> type "command" minus the quotes

[shadowwoelf]

ok i must be doing something wrong
i went into the command and there was this
c:\docume~1\nobody>
then i typed in
c:\docume~1\nobody>c:\dosbox-0.61\dosbox.exe
and when that didnt work i typed in this
c:\docume~1\nobody>c:\dosbox-0.61\game.exe

what did i do wrong???

[RockY]

dude.. where did u save dosbox?

I mean the location

[shadowwoelf]

i saved it like any other program into my program directories if that is what u r asking for

[Mourgos]

Then I guess you have to give the command when you're in that directory and not inside "c:\docume~1\nobody>"

[RockY]

Originally posted by Mourgos@Jul 29 2004, 11:38 AM
Then I guess you have to give the command when you're in that directory and not inside "c:\docume~1\nobody>"

Exactly

Let’s say I saved it at: c:\dosbox and I want to play Atlantis game.
So I must type:


c:\dosbox\dosbox c:\atlantis\atlantis.exe

[shadowwoelf]

argh it says error when i am trying to run dos box and by the way how come whenever i launch dosbox it shows an empty back screen???

[shadowwoelf]

good news i finally some how got my dosbox running so now i can see the text it says

z:\>

and my game is located in

c:\games\game.exe

how do i load the game with the dosbox???

[Cheewie]

Try the commands:
INTRO and HELP

It explains quite good information, example for mounting a drive from your filesystem. Just type <mount c c:/> and c:&#092; on your drive is c:&#092; on the shell, etc.

EDIT
this is for dos newbies;
<dir> lists the files in the current directory
<c:> changes drive to c:
<cd games> changes directory to &#092;games
<game.exe> executes the file game.exe (executable files are; *.exe *.com and *.bat)