Dosbox not working

[dufferton]

im having a bit of trouble running wads on dosbox.
i just cant figure out how to do it..

[Doominator2]

Not to sure but I think you have to put the the WAD in with your doom directory and then do

1. Mount c c:\(your directory where you put you dos games assuming you put it on your C drive)

2.c:\

3.cd (name of folder where you have the doom contents)

4.(name of the WAD)

[Maes]

Doominator2 said:

4.(name of the WAD)

More like

doom.exe -file [path to WAD]

[Shadow Hog]

Won't some WADs require merging if you want to run them on a vanilla EXE, as well?

[dufferton]

i feel like it should work but is just not.
say the filepath to my doom stuff is
c:\dooms\doom2 and ive got the wad and doom2 in the same folder.
the wad im trying to open is called severaldemons.wad(or something)
how would i open that?

[Zed]

Have you considered a source port (Chocolate, Legacy, ZDoom, PrBoom, etc.)?

[Foxpup]

dufferton said:

the wad im trying to open is called severaldemons.wad(or something)
how would i open that?

There's your problem. DOS filenames must be 8 characters or less, excluding the extension. DosBox automatically truncates long filenames using the same method Windows used, so you'll find your file is actually named SEVERA~1.WAD (or whatever). Run DIR *.WAD /P in DosBox to get a list of all WAD files in the directory, with their truncated DOS filenames.

[Maes]

This is how I would go about it in the old, DOS days:

cd dooms
cd doom2
doom2 -file serera~1.wad

[dufferton]

aw yes, it worked!
thanks guys! :D