Dos game help

[matt915]

Anyone know what this is and how to get it running I'm using dos box to run a dos cd rom on an xp computer. Also what would I put to as a directory as the the game. Thier example is testdrive. 

[kb5zue]

Wow!  Where in the World is Carmen San Diego.  Talk about a LONG time ago.  There was another WinME game back in the day that was a really neat game but dang if I can't remember the name of it.  Bummer.  HAA!, Now I got it.  The name of that game was Rendezvous with Rama.  Wow, sure would like to get my hands on a copy of that and then figure out how to play it.  There were two versions, a DOS version with game interaction nothing more that conversation in DOS and then the WinMe version that actually had color graphics with a guy escorting you around explaining things and giving you puzzles to solve.  The entire game took place inside an extremely large space bound cylinder with creatures living in it that you had to convers with and other stuff.  Man, that was a LONG time ago, for sure.  Thanks for the memories, I'm not dead yet after all.

 

Good Luck

 

 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Is it 32bit win xp? 32bit systems can natively run dos programs.

[matt915]

4 hours ago, kb5zue said:

Wow!  Where in the World is Carmen San Diego.  Talk about a LONG time ago.  There was another WinME game back in the day that was a really neat game but dang if I can't remember the name of it.  Bummer.  HAA!, Now I got it.  The name of that game was Rendezvous with Rama.  Wow, sure would like to get my hands on a copy of that and then figure out how to play it.  There were two versions, a DOS version with game interaction nothing more that conversation in DOS and then the WinMe version that actually had color graphics with a guy escorting you around explaining things and giving you puzzles to solve.  The entire game took place inside an extremely large space bound cylinder with creatures living in it that you had to convers with and other stuff.  Man, that was a LONG time ago, for sure.  Thanks for the memories, I'm not dead yet after all.

 

Good Luck

 

 

Thanks yeah it's hard to figure out all the versions 

[matt915]

4 hours ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Is it 32bit win xp? 32bit systems can natively run dos programs.

It's a 32 bit system 

[matt915]

4 hours ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Is it 32bit win xp? 32bit systems can natively run dos programs.

How? I guess I tried just putting it in and forcing it to run and nothing that's why I used dos box.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 hour ago, matt915 said:

How? I guess I tried just putting it in and forcing it to run and nothing that's why I used dos box.

Copy the data from the disc and try. It just runs like a normal 16 or 32bit program.

[matt915]

3 hours ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Copy the data from the disc and try. It just runs like a normal 16 or 32bit program.

Copy the game to my hard drive? Is that legal?

[Helpful Tech Witch]

17 minutes ago, matt915 said:

Copy the game to my hard drive? Is that legal?

Do you own it? As long as you dont share it, yes.

[matt915]

1 minute ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Do you own it? As long as you dont share it, yes.

Yeah your right I copied it and apparently was able to install it now how I get it to run dos box?

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 minute ago, matt915 said:

Yeah your right I copied it and apparently was able to install it now how I get it to run dos box?

You dont need to, just run the game exe from files.

[matt915]

I tried to I guess I get this 

[matt915]

5 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

You dont need to, just run the game exe from files.

Unless I'm doing something wrong again

[matt915]

9 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

You dont need to, just run the game exe from files.

Here is the install

[Helpful Tech Witch]

OK, now fing the directory C:/Dulex, then doubleclick on Carmen.exe

[matt915]

32 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

OK, now fing the directory C:/Dulex, then doubleclick on Carmen.exe

This happens for some reason it's not on 32 bit or needs to be in 16 bit maybe 

[kb5zue]

I sure hope that you are able to get this figured out.  Now I'm going to have to start a search for my Rendezvous with Rama game.