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Solve : How the *censored* do i install MSCDEX ???? |
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Answer» I have windows XP and would like to play an old game. It asks me to install MSCDEX v2.21 or above. you have to put mscdex "microsoft cd extension" in c:\autoxec.bat (or autoexec.nt or whatever winXP uses, perhaps in c:\WinNT\System32\ or c:\Windows\System32\ instead of c:\ ?) so dos and dos-programs can read the FILES on your cd. (without it, dos just ignore your cd-disks) but since back in the dark ages (~1990 or so) all cd players were not connected in the pc in the same way, you needed a device driver too, and that driver should be loaded in c:\config.sys (or perhaps config.nt if you use winXP) Since you have a new computer, you need one for cd-players connected with the normal ide/atapi -interface in the computer (the same way you connect normal parallell harddisks) it can look something like this in c:\config.sys this line was added: DEVICE=C:\ATAPICDD\ATAPICDD.SYS /D:MSCD001 in c:\autoexec.bat this line was added: C:\SHSUCDX\SHSUCDX /D:MSCD001 "MSCD001" is just a NAME, but it have to be the same name in both files. you can write FRITJOFF if you like :-) if you're not having a cd-driver file there allready you can SEARCH google for dos cdrom driver or something or use this one that freedos uses: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/xcdrom/ with that one you have to write DEVICE=C:\Xcdrom.sys /D:MSCD001 instead of course (if you put your driver in c:\) ....but if you use DOSBOX, perhaps you should instead just look at this page http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/MOUNT about how to "Mounting your CD-ROM in DOSBox" More info about how to run games in dosbox at http://www.dosbox.com/ :-) Woah ! Thats real good information right there . But i tried to use your info and it still says mscdex not installed. What is all that ATAPICDD and SHSUCDX in the syntax ? Do i have to make a autoexec.bat and config.sys for myself ??Quote from: hopefulguy on April 23, 2008, 09:49:24 PM But i tried to use your info and it still says mscdex not installed. oups :-) I ment MSCDEX not SHSUCDX (I was just pasting from freedos pages, and in freedos mscdex is called SHSUCDX. Both are small programs that do the same thing, "extending" dos so it can use cds, the one made by microsoft is called mscdex and the one made by someone at freedos is called shsucdx. there are other such programs too that you can use instead of course, some made to live under windowsNT/2000/XP) ATAPICDD.SYS is just the dos cd-rom driver in the example (a generical one for modern cd players I belive, but there are others, and with old computers you want one that matches the way the cd player is connected) Another example how it could look like with windows98..... in c:\config.sys: device=c:\oakcdrom.sys /d:hello in c:\autoexec.bat: c:\windows\command\mscdex /d:hello When dos start it first read config.sys and load drivers like himem.sys (for extended memory) and oakcdrom.sys ("Generic device driver for ATAPI CD-ROM drives") into memory and read settings there. Then it starts to execute the dos-commands and run the programs listed in autoexec.bat, like setting the path variable and running the program mscdex.exe (a program that helps dos understands cd's). After that it displays the dos-prompt where you can enter commands and start programs. If you start a dos-program from within windows, things work a little differntly depending on what windows version you use. O.K. I get it , Thanx. This really helped me. I'm 1 step closer to getting the game to work. But the thing is my MSCDEXNT (already installed from when i bought this computer) seems to be corrupt (i.e the game talks about a fatal error due to corrupted MSCDEX) . I downloaded the new MSCDEX version but i can't get it to replace the already present MSCDEXNT. Every time i delete MSCDEXNT it promptly appears back again and again. What am i supposed to do |
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