Harpy new year!
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Itlandm
Jan 1, 2009, 7:13:15 PM1/1/09
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For years, I have tried to get Daggerfall to run on my newer machines,
after my last Windows 98 computer died. I have tried various versions
of DOSBox after it became available, on various machines, but to no
avail. On January 1, 2009 however, with DOSBox 0.72 on a WinXP
machine, it suddenly was remarkably easy. I did not change any
settings, just mounted a folder as the C drive and the CD as the D
drive, and installed using Install from the dos prompt rather than the
fancy installer that pops up when you set in the disk. I used minimum
install, copied all the files in the Arena2 folder over to the
corresponding folder on the C drive, changed the cdpath to C instead
of D in z.cfg, and ran FALL Z.CFG from the dos prompt. Suddenly,
everything was back the way I remembered from years ago. Amazing. Now
I remember why I loved this game better than its pretty sequels.
Obviously I made a Linguist as my first character. So, Harpy new year
to all of my old friends who are still alive! May you all have as
much luck as I.
after my last Windows 98 computer died. I have tried various versions
of DOSBox after it became available, on various machines, but to no
avail. On January 1, 2009 however, with DOSBox 0.72 on a WinXP
machine, it suddenly was remarkably easy. I did not change any
settings, just mounted a folder as the C drive and the CD as the D
drive, and installed using Install from the dos prompt rather than the
fancy installer that pops up when you set in the disk. I used minimum
install, copied all the files in the Arena2 folder over to the
corresponding folder on the C drive, changed the cdpath to C instead
of D in z.cfg, and ran FALL Z.CFG from the dos prompt. Suddenly,
everything was back the way I remembered from years ago. Amazing. Now
I remember why I loved this game better than its pretty sequels.
Obviously I made a Linguist as my first character. So, Harpy new year
to all of my old friends who are still alive! May you all have as
much luck as I.
gar...@remove.me.cox.net
Jan 3, 2009, 1:15:22 AM1/3/09
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And a Happy New Year to you, too!
I still watch the ole' newsgroup, but there hasn't been much activity.
Thanks for the tip!
Gary
Nyctolops
Jan 4, 2009, 12:29:18 AM1/4/09
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On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 16:13:15 -0800 (PST), Itlandm <itl...@gmail.com>
wrote:
wrote:
Congratulations and Harpy New Year to you, too. I am lucky in that my
first machine on which I played Daggerfall is still operational. I
can get Daggerfall to work with DosBox, but sometimes it hangs up
loading.
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Nyctolops
Itlandm
Feb 10, 2009, 6:13:21 AM2/10/09
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On Jan 4, 6:29 am, Nyctolops <nyctol...@vla.nospam.com> wrote:
>
> Congratulations and Harpy New Year to you, too. I am lucky in that my
> first machine on which I played Daggerfall is still operational. I
> can get Daggerfall to work with DosBox, but sometimes it hangs up
> loading.
>
> Congratulations and Harpy New Year to you, too. I am lucky in that my
> first machine on which I played Daggerfall is still operational. I
> can get Daggerfall to work with DosBox, but sometimes it hangs up
> loading.
I had the perfect Daggerfall machine, sturdy thing. I let my best
friend borrow it. Her father threw it away. It was old, right? But
some good came of it - my wrists have healed considerably in the later
years.
So I spent January making up with Daggerfall. Back to normal now.
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