GreyGhost
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Platinum Shell said:
No, I haven't, I need to read or tutorial or something similiar if I want to use the disk operating system.
I don't know how familiar you are with DOS, so I'll make no assumptions and just detail how from within DOSBox I installed 1.666 from CD and patched it to 1.9 on my Win 7 Home Premium (64bit) powered laptop.
- Install DOSBox
- Create a home directory that DOSBox can mount as its C-Drive. (mine's called DosGames and is in C:)
- Open the DOSBox options (DOSBox-0.74\Options\DOSBox 0.74 Options in the Program Menu) so we can make a few changes
Add the following lines to the end of the config file (autoexec section) to automatically mount the DosGames directory and make it the current directory...
code:
mount C c:\DosGames
C:
You might like to increase the value of memsize from it's default of 16 to 32 or higher, as it might speed up patching a bit. Save and close.
- Insert your Doom2 CD and check the drive letter in Windows Explorer (I'll assume it's D:)
- Run DOSBox and (assuming you're presented with a C:\> prompt) type mount D D:\ -t cdrom to mount your physical drive D:\ as a virtual D-drive
- Switch to D-drive (type D: and hit Enter) and run the installer - which is usually named INSTALL.BAT
- Select drive C: and the default DOOM2 directory for installation - it actually installs to the virtual C-drive in the DosGames directory. Running the game is optional, close DOSBox when finished.
- At this point you might like to create a zip archive of Doom2, in case of mishaps with one of the following steps
- In Windows Explorer - copy/paste doom2p16.zip to the C:\DosGames\DOOM2 directory and unzip the patch.zip it contains
- Run DOSBox, change to the DOOM2 directory (type cd\doom2 and Enter), run PATCH.EXE and wait - it's slow but will get there. Close DOSBox when done
- In Windows Explorer - delete every file called PATCH, copy/paste d2_19pat.zip to C:\DosGames\DOOM2 and (once again) unzip the patch.zip it contains
- Run DOSBox, change directory to C:\DOOM2>, run PATCH.EXE and go make some coffee while waiting
- Once the update's complete, you can close DOSBox and delete any file in the DOOM2 directory that's older than your backup zip file
- Congratulations - you now have Doom2 v1.9
DOSBox doesn't seem to acknowledge changes made by Windows Explorer to it's virtual C-drive so has to be quit and re-run a couple more times than I'd consider necessary.
If any of this is as clear as mud to you, let me know.
tempun said:
What kind of weird system do you have that is "64-bit only"?
Try installing Doom2 v1.666 on Windows 7 (64bit) and it'll suggest you contact the software vendor for a "64-bit Windows compatible version".
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11-29-11 23:16 
