rkaplan2: but it only gives me two options on that screen:
"Change hardware/software configuration
Abort."
Those are the only two things I can do, and if I choose configuration it just says the configuration files could not be found nor created, try again blah blah. Obviously it's because the game hasn't even installed yet! Then, it says to switch to the drive that my CD is on and type "install" as a command to install the game. That would be great, except it only gives me two options, NEITHER of which actually install the game
I'll keep looking up solutions to this problem, but once again I appreciate any and all help anyone can give me!
No prob, It is very frustrating working with DOSBOX.
It sounds like it runs the game off the CD. If I remember correctly I believe the CD version of WC2 only installed minimal files to play. I guess to conserve disk space. I'm thinking maybe the sound configuration program creates a batch file or config file on the HD. Maybe after that you can execute the batch file on drive C or the actual game executable on the CD, probably strike.exe or something. I wish I had the CD still.
Don't forget to mount the drive C folder you created otherwise the setup won't be able to save any config or batch files. Because DOSBOX doesn't even know drive C exists.
I still remember back in the day trying to get these old beauties running. Configuring autoexec and the config files, trying to get the base memory up high enough to play the game.
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I downloaded the disk version because I can't find the CD version. Looks like it installs the game to a SC directory and the executable is called sc.exe. The disk version does seem to give the options of installing the game or configuring the game. It did tell me that the config file didn't exist when I tried to configure the sound before installing.
I don't know if it helps but the disk version does work in DOSBOX.