![]() ![]() Kinda gives you an idea on processing power increases we've seen in the past 13+ years.) (Note: This is something I wrote and posted on a puny webpage (makes this one look like Scalzi's "Whatever" page by comparison). Gary Schafer, 29 January 2013 (originally September 1999) MSCDEX: Mounted subdirectory: limited support.ĭrive D is mounted as CDRom /media/TIECD/Ī Blast from the Past: My New Computer (circa 1999) Now, when I want to start the game, here are the commands I type into Dosbox (the text in bold is what I actually type):ĭrive C is mounted as local directory /home/gary/dosprogs/ Once I did that, I was able to install the game with no problem, and I've now played the first two missions. ![]() The right way to mount the CD drive in order for "Tie Fighter" to work is mount d /media/TIECD -t cdrom. The easy way to mount the CD drive in Dosbox under Linux is mount d /media/TIECD. Turns out that it was a problem how the CD-ROM was mounted. I'm running Dosbox on Ubuntu Linux 12.04. I'd get the message "You cannot select this install option while running the install program from the hard drive." Well, that's helpful. Unfortunately, every time I tried to install it, it wouldn't work. There's another game that I also wanted to get running. My last post on playing games on Dosbox talked about getting the joystick working. Note that the various install buttons are no longer blacked out. This is the install screen that showed after properly mounting the CD-ROM. These are the commands I used to properly mount the CD-ROM so that the game would both install and run. I still clicked on the "Maximum Install", and this is what appeared. Dosbox: Playing "Tie Fighter" This is how the buttons appeared (blacked out) when I first tried to install the game on Dosbox under Linux. ![]()
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