Unofficial Tex Murphy

So I did manage to get UKAM to at least be acknowledged in Vista as a disc with info on it. Apparently just an f-up...maybe because it's an old disc. Anyways, I installed it with Dos Box and as soon as all the options are set up and working and it goes to the title screen it immediately asks for Disc 2, but refuses to believe I've made a Disc change.

The same thing happens with the non-acknowledgment of a disc change in Pandora Directive, however I CAN watch the intro videos until it gets to the proper time to actually ASK for disc 2...then of course, it doesn't believe me when I put disc 2 in.

So very much depressing this is. I want to play Tex very badly... and I've yet to try Overseer, but I also very badly want to do all 3 over again in order. Has anyone else who's using vista been having these issues with DosBox?

I know there's other options with I guess a Virtual PC from Microsoft programme or something, but it seems like a major hassle to try getting it working... I'm willing to try almost anything to get this crap to work though...any thoughts?
Bill

Two suggestions, as I think it's more of a dosBox issue than a Vista issue:

1) How are you mapping the virtual cdrom drives in dosBox to your actual cdroms (assuming you're using the physical discs still).

2) Have you tried using Wintermutes Installer, which gives you the option of doing a full install using the discs, or creating a virtual DVD image of all the discs on your hard-drive? I don't know if this works with Vista, but you could try to create a DVD Image on an xp machine, then copy it to your Vista machine and do a full install, then simply refer dosBox to the correct path of the games and mount a 'dummy' cdrom in dosBox to fool the Tex Games into believing there really is a cdrom drive, even though you won't have any use for it since, after all, you did a full install...

Bests, Rockefeller

rockefeller wrote:Two suggestions, as I think it's more of a dosBox issue than a Vista issue:

1) How are you mapping the virtual cdrom drives in dosBox to your actual cdroms (assuming you're using the physical discs still).

2) Have you tried using Wintermutes Installer, which gives you the option of doing a full install using the discs, or creating a virtual DVD image of all the discs on your hard-drive? I don't know if this works with Vista, but you could try to create a DVD Image on an xp machine, then copy it to your Vista machine and do a full install, then simply refer dosBox to the correct path of the games and mount a 'dummy' cdrom in dosBox to fool the Tex Games into believing there really is a cdrom drive, even though you won't have any use for it since, after all, you did a full install...

Bests, Rockefeller

I'm mapping one CD rom drive the way DOSbox had suggested with the line: mount d d:\ -t cdrom (if I remember that correctly)
... Pandora starts intro works intro scene works, when it asks for Disc 2 and I change to Disc 2 it doesn't work anymore...refuses to acknowledge the disc swap...

I've not tryed doing images because I simply don't want to. I know how and understand them, but I also know I've gotten these games working just fine it DosBox before...however that was in WinXP... also not on this Alienware laptop.