I have the CD files in C:\WC1CD
I have installed the game to C:\WARCRAFT
In dosbox I type:
- mount a c:\WC1CD -t cdrom
- mount b c:\WARCRAFT
- b:
- dir
- WAR (this starts the game)
I hear the music, everything looks fine, I click SINGLE PLAYER, the game prompts me to insert the CD.

Behaves the same even if I mount the CD drive directly with "mount a e:\ -t cdrom" (the drive starts reading the disk after entering this cmd, so it does what it's supposed to I guess).

What am I doing wrong? Or am I?

EDIT: SOLVED

Daryl F. Gates police quest open season!

I'm trying to figure out how to run a downloaded version of Carmen Sandiego word detective on a modern PC with Windows 11. All the supporting software I can find works with windows versions 7-10. Don't have any idea what I'm doing either, so maybe I'm just out here looking for unicorns. Any ideas tho?

With my Top 5 being

1. Stonekeep
2. Master of Orion 2
3. XCom - Terror from the Deep
4. Diablo
5. Dune

as those games affected and influenced me the most, mainly through intense Atmosphere, especially created by incredible Soundtrack with Honorable Mentions "Gabriel Knight" as my favourite Adventure (with Sam & Max Hit the Road slightly behind it) and "Albion" as the best overall RPG.

Let the nostalgia kick in...

When i first played Dune2 i remember i first was disappointed that is was a different type of game. Barely did i know it set the Stone to endless hours of RTS with C&C, Red Alert, Warcraft 2 and StarCraft at LAN Parties later on...

First played on Schneider with green screen shoplifter, the prince of Persia. My first own pc was 486x with 4mb ram,400mb harddrive and 30mhz and turbo button for 60mhz. That thing only had pc speaker. Playing doom was a nuisance. 1997 I got a cyrix 166 with sb16 and cdrom and finally could enjoy gaming.

So a first person space sim or arcade game.

I think if memory serves this was the second game I ever played on my PC XT. .. on an orange monochrome.. yeah good old times..:)

The game which was a cornerstone for a couple of prominent Polish game development industry figures. Do you know any other games from that era that use real-life photos for graphics?

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajemnica_Statuetki

Star Wars: Dark Forces is a first-person shooter video game developed and published by LucasArts. It was released in 1995 for MS-DOS and Macintosh, and in 1996 for PlayStation. The story is set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe and begins shortly before the original film, then jumps forward one year after the events of the movie. The protagonist and playable character is Kyle Katarn, a mercenary working for the Rebel Alliance who discovers the Galactic Empire's secret Dark Trooper project, which involves the development of a series of powerful new battle droids and armored stormtroopers. Dark Forces uses the Jedi game engine, developed specifically for the game. This engine added gameplay features uncommon in the first-person shooter genre at the time of its release, including multi-level level designs and the ability to look up and down. Upon release, the PC and Macintosh versions received generally favorable reviews, praising their level design and technological advancements, although the PlayStation version was criticized for its poor graphics and low frame rate. The game was also a major commercial success, selling nearly one million copies in the United States by 1999. Its success spurred the Star Wars: Jedi Knight series, beginning with the direct sequel Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II in 1997.

My retrospective review of Ant Attack including the remakes. What’s your thoughts and memories of this game?

...but it was still fun to play.

Hello, first time posting here. I am looking for a set of shareware/freeware cds from the early 2000's. I have looked on Archive.org with no luck so far, but hopefully someone can at least remember the disks i am talking about and tell me im not crazy lol.

The disks were blue and red (i think) design on a silver background, and they both had the image of a robot with round eyes on the front of the cd in their respective colors. Some of the games I know for sure were on it:

First disk:
- AEvil (from newgrounds)
- Bunny Blast (a game where you kill bunnies as a farmer)
- Colobot (I may be misremembering this, but its where i would have come across colobot)

Second disk:
- Serious sam: the first encounter demo

There were hundred(s) of games on the first disk, and only a handful of high-quality demos/games on the second disk.

I have looked everywhere and have not been able to find it for very many years! If you have any memories of the same I hope you remember the disk set's name!

The problem is in the early to mid 80s the IBM PC was strictly a business platform. The majority of games was developed for the Apple II, C64, ZX and later the Amiga. DOS did get a lot of games but only in terms of ports. Sure, the splash screen usually contained the studio that developed the game but never the individuals, the actual people behind it.

If you were one of the people who worked on these ports I would love to hear any war stories. Mostly on the technical side. Like what machine did you use to develop your game? Was it more powerful than the target machine? What development software did you have access to? What about high-tech stuff like in-circuit emulators, 2 monitor setup or kernel debuggers?

https://archive.org/details/commander-keen-mods-esde/

I’ve been building a custom Commander Keen setup for ES-DE focused entirely on fan-made mods, level packs, and community releases. The project currently includes 367 curated mods with cleaned metadata, custom miximages/artwork, and integrated DOSBox-Pure support. Every game has been configured to launch directly from ES-DE with no setup required, and I also remapped the controls across the collection to work properly on handheld devices and controller-based setups.

I wanted it to feel less like a random DOS folder and more like a polished console-style library that preserves the history of the Keen modding community. Huge credit goes to KeenWiki, Public Commander Keen Forum (PCKF), Keen: Modding, and the wider Keen community — all included mods, screenshots, titles, descriptions, and story metadata used throughout the project were sourced from community resources, forums, and archives. Most of the artwork and layouts were made manually using GIMP with inspiration from ES-DE’s ArtBook Next style.

It's still quite challenging but the graphics and smooth gameplay is pretty good for the era of it's release

Was the program it not H.A.L or P.A.L, I remeber in the late 80s learning ms dos and playing it like a game . Eventually it even had a conversation using the words you have typed in the past

hey everyone, posted here about 4 months ago when i was beta testing nostalgiapp. wanted to share an update since a lot has changed.

for those who missed it, nostalgiapp is a native mac launcher for dos games. i built it because there was nothing like launchbox on macos and i was tired of manually setting up dosbox configs for each game.

whats new since the beta:

• download exodos directly from the app (lite or full), or point it at your existing collection. it parses the metadata, imports box art and screenshots, and writes per-game dosbox configs automatically (mount points, cpu cycles, mouse settings, all of it)
• exoscummvm support for lucasarts and sierra adventure games with automatic scummvm/dreamm configuration
• exowin9x support for windows 3.x and win9x era games
• sound variant selection works properly now. pick game blaster, sound blaster, mt-32 etc from the launch menu and it respects that choice
• built in music player with album management, disc support, and game linking. plays soundtracks while you browse your library
• coverflow view for browsing box art across a 7000+ game library
• retroarch integration with automatic core selection for 60+ platforms (nes, snes, genesis, n64, arcade etc)
• rom import with automatic identification and metadata scraping from screenscraper.fr
• icloud sync for library data and save games across macs
• community fix system where dosbox config fixes get shared between users automatically
• playtime tracking, screensaver, and three bundled emulators so you dont need to install anything separately

still native swiftui on apple silicon, still one time purchase (no subscription), 14 day free trial.

https://nostalgi.app

theres also a discord if anyone wants to chat or report issues.

i'm also building a 486dx2-66 with a sound blaster awe64 in my basement for the games that really need real hardware. but for everything else, nostalgiapp on my m1 air works great.

happy to answer any questions

Hi,
I have a retro PC build based on a Gigabyte GA-6WMM7 rev 2.0 motherboard (Intel 810 chipset, Socket 370) running MS-DOS 6.22.

I’m having a strange ISA sound card initialization issue.

On a cold boot, the ISA sound card is not detected / initialized properly at all. DOS games and diagnostics can’t see it.

However, after a soft reboot (Ctrl + Alt + Del or reset), the card initializes correctly and then works perfectly every time until the machine is fully powered off again.

I already tried:

• different drivers
• different autoexec / configsys configs
• multiple BIOS PnP/resource settings
• 3 different ISA sound cards

The motherboard only has a single ISA slot. Has anyone seen similar behavior on late Socket 370 / Intel 810 boards with ISA sound cards?

Could this be some kind of ISA timing / PnP initialization problem on cold boot?
Any ideas or known fixes?