The Books and MacTex

Yes! Pandora and UOTM. I simply downloaded DOSBox and installed the games using configuration on the thumb drive created and sent via snail mail by DrPaul on this very board. You own both of those games?

Oh, and yes. The single freakiest part of all the Tex games. Yow!

Did you mean UAKM? I thought UOTM was this board.

Do you have a link to the configuration? I'd love to try it out.

Oh, and I own Overseer, Pandora Directive, and Under A Killing Moon, original CDs all.

Would love to boot them up again, if I can get DosBOX configured correctly. If you don't have a link, would you be willing to email me an ISO or zip of the files?

Thanks

Jerry Dan suggested I check in here, regarding PD and UAKM with dosbox.

If, when you tried them with dosbox, you set it up to run completely from the hard disk (instead of CDs) as per the instructions in Glenn's Guide to retro gaming, then the flash drive version that I have probably won't help. My procedure is, basically, exactly like Glenn's Guide except for a few changes to run from the flash drive instead of the hard disk.

However, if you tried to install the games with dosbox a different way, it's possible that my flash drive versions might work or you could even try using Glenn's Guide on your hard disk. I think that's about all I can tell you about that at this point.

Woops! Yeah, UAKM. Silly me

Nilo's site has everything you need to get the games up and running along with detailed instructions... That's how I got the games running again...

http://home.wideopenwest.com/~hbech/


But now I use the Flash Drive...
DrPaul's Flash Drive technique works great...

Macs being Macs (10.5, right?), I can't imagine whatever worked for me not working for you. Let me see if I can blunder my way around helping you install UAKM, and we'll go from there.

Assuming you have ripped all the CD's, leaving their contents in the folders DISC1, DISC2, etc., I would think the following should work.

For now, create a folder on your desktop called Tex, and inside it put a folder named Moon. Put your DISC1 etc. folders inside Moon, along with the (unzipped) contents of this file: http://is.gd/16tho. Then run the UAKM application (not the .exe, the one with the DOSBOX icon). See if that works.

I wrote up some instructions for installing Pandora on a flash drive. I guess I should have done UAKM first but I wasn't thinking. Anyway, it's almost the same with a few minor variations.

Here is what I have for Pandora. I haven't tested this yet - meaning that I'm not sure if I left anything out or made a mistake, but I thinks it's ok. If I get a chance, I'll post the UAKM procedure tomorrow. As you can see, it's almost identical to the procedure in Glenn's Guide, with only some very minor differences.

Instructions for Pandora Directive

Download DOSBox 0.72 from http://www.dosbox.com and install it on your flash drive.
After the install, rename the dosbox folder 'Pandora'.

Open the Pandora folder (the one that you renamed from dosbox) and open the dosbox.config file in notepad (or your favorite plain text editor.)

The following instructions assume that your flash drive (or external disk drive) is designated as drive E. If it is something else, like F, G or H, just replace the E with the appropriate letter.

Insert the following text below [autoexec] which appears at the bottom of the config file:

mount c: e:\pandora
mount d d:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0

(These instructions also assume that your CD drive is drive D. Replace it with whatever you CD drive happens to be.)

Save the config file and close it. Then put the Pandora disk 1 in your CDROM. If the install window comes up, don't do the install yet. Exit to DOS and close the dos window.

Start DOSBox by double-clicking on the dosbox.exe icon. at the Z: command prompt that appears, type d: and press enter. Then type install and press enter again. The install screen for Pandora will appear and click Install.

Select the c: drive and click ok. (From DOSBox, the C: drive will actually be your flash drive because of the changes we made in the configuration file and Pandora will be installed on the flash drive.

When the installation is complete, you should be returned to the c:\Pandora prompt. Type exit and press enter to close DOSBox.

Now, go to the e:\Pandora folder and change the name of dosbox.exe to PandoraDirective.exe. (This step isn't necessary, but it's helpful.) There should also now be a sub-folder in your e:\Pandora folder called PANDORA. This was created during the PandoraDirective installation.

Create six more folders with the names PANDORA1, PANDORA2, PANDORA3, PANDORA4, PANDORA5, PANDORA6.

Now, copy the contents of Disks 1 through 6 into each of these new folders. Copy disk 1 to PANDORA1, disk 2 to PANDORA2, etc. Just drag and drop. This will take some time.

Next, open the dosbox.config file again and scroll down to where we added those two lines after [autoexec] earlier. Right below the text we added earlier, add these lines:

mount e e:\pandora\pandora1 -t cdrom -label PANDORA1
mount f e:\pandora\pandora2 -t cdrom -label PANDORA2
mount g e:\pandora\pandora3 -t cdrom -label PANDORA3
mount h e:\pandora\pandora4 -t cdrom -label PANDORA4
mount i e:\pandora\pandora5 -t cdrom -label PANDORA5
mount j e:\pandora\pandora6 -t cdrom -label PANDORA6
c:
cd Pandora
tex4

When done, the last lines of the config file should look like this:

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount c e:\Pandora
mount d d:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0
mount e e:\pandora\pandora1 -t cdrom -label PANDORA1
mount f e:\pandora\pandora2 -t cdrom -label PANDORA2
mount g e:\pandora\pandora3 -t cdrom -label PANDORA3
mount h e:\pandora\pandora4 -t cdrom -label PANDORA4
mount i e:\pandora\pandora5 -t cdrom -label PANDORA5
mount j e:\pandora\pandora6 -t cdrom -label PANDORA6
c:
cd Pandora
tex4

Remember, this is assuming that your flash drive is drive e and your CD is drive d. Adjust, if necessary.

Now it's almost time to play. Insert the Pandora disk 1 again and run the game. Follow the on screen instructions to configure the sound. If you have trouble, try using the auto detect option.

After the sound and video configurations, you'll come to the CD-ROM configuration tab. If this option isn't automatically given to you, click on the 'Configuration' option and select the CD-ROM tab.

At this screen, change the drive letters in the little text boxes under the Drive heading to E,F, G, H, I, J from top to bottom.

Now you're ready to play.

Sometimes, you'll get an error message that says that there is no disk in the drive. Just click try again or continue several times and eventually it'll start working. This seems to happen once in a while if there was a disk (any disk) in the drive since last boot.

If any of you guys try this, please let me know if it works or if it doesn't work 'cause I wrote it up very quickly.

Actually it's Dosbox 0.73 now... But I don't think there is really much difference...