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Mercs mount
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:00 pm
by Col.Kell
I relize that even I should know how to work this old dos stuff by now... but I am having trouble yet again.
I am trying to imgmount my Mercs CD for Mercnet 1.06, reason being is because of quota4stupid's extrodinary unwasm tool has given me great insite on reverse-engineering scenario mission files. And I was hoping to give some SCN1.WLD files of my own a try.
Anyway, my directory of where Mercs DOS is installed, is "MERCSDOS", my disk (and only disk) drive letter is "D:", my harddrive is "C:", and the Mercs image and cue files (IMAGE.IMG and IMAGE.CUE) are both in the folder "MERCSDOS". I am typing in this command in DOSBox:
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imgmount D C:\MERCSDOS\IMAGE.CUE -t iso
mount C C:
C:
MERCNET
Any thoughts what I might me doing wrong?
Re: Mercs mount
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:00 pm
by Sir MMPD Radick
from what i can see you did it right.
except you did not quote the path, but i doubt that it is/
When you made the cue/img did you make the mercs disc with protected game cd?
Re: Mercs mount
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:39 pm
by Skyfaller
Do you need to add a "cd" command?
If that batch runs, you're probably calling MercNet from the wrong directory, unless you have specified that directory in your path environment variable. I usually collect my .BAT files in a directory called BAT and point the path variable there.
One more thing: I'd advise against giving DosBox access to your entire C: drive for security reasons. That way, it gets a lot more difficult for malware in DosBox to escape the virtual machine environment, even if there probably is no malware running in your DosBox.
Re: Mercs mount
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:44 am
by Col.Kell
Sir MMPD Radick wrote:did you make the mercs disc with protected game cd?
Yes. I made it a copy-protected game cd image. though other times I didn't...
Skyfaller wrote:Do you need to add a "cd" command?
No. I managed to get it working before without using the "cd" command. I just used the "imgmount" command.
I am just getting this error in mercnet when I try to host a game saying I need to "insert the Mercs CD".
Renaming an img file doesn't ruin anything does it?
Re: Mercs mount
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:57 am
by Sir MMPD Radick
you mean renaming img to cue? ... i doubt it would work.
cue has the listing of music tracks which the game scans.
Re: Mercs mount
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 3:18 pm
by Col.Kell
Sir MMPD Radick wrote:you mean renaming img to cue?
No, I renamed "IMAGE.IMG" and "IMAGE.CUE" to "MERCS.IMG" and "MERCS.CUE". But then DOSBox crashed when I tried to mount the renamed CUE file, so I just renamed them both "IMAGE" again and it didn't crash when I mounted.
I AM supposed to be mounting the CUE file and not the IMG, right?
Re: Mercs mount
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:42 pm
by Sir MMPD Radick
yes, and if you rename them i think they do break.
Re: Mercs mount
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 8:04 pm
by Col.Kell
Well then that would explain it, because other than renaming the img and cue file, I have been doing everything as I normaly did. I'll try again later and see if it works.
Re: Mercs mount
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:21 pm
by Col.Kell
Yay! ITS WORKING!
Turns out it was the fact that I renamed the img and cue files. Something else I found out; when I looked at "add/remove programs" on the control pannel, I saw that the list didn't include and count the amount of memory that the img took up when it was "broken", but when it wasn't broken, it DID list on the add/remove programs...
Anyway, this helps! Thanks!
I have to go to Nashville in the morning (5:30amCST), but when I get back, I'll start trying out some WLD/MEC files!