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Acorn Arcade forums: Games: Elite 2 in DOS
 
  Elite 2 in DOS
  andrew (21:38 7/7/2007)
  Phlamethrower (21:58 7/7/2007)
    andrew (00:57 8/7/2007)
      filecore (09:23 8/7/2007)
        Phlamethrower (09:28 8/7/2007)
          VincceH (09:33 8/7/2007)
          filecore (10:43 8/7/2007)
            andrew (17:24 8/7/2007)
              filecore (05:56 9/7/2007)
 
Andrew Message #103387, posted by andrew at 21:38, 7/7/2007
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So I'm in DOS mode on the PC card. How do I go about running Elite 2?

I have a file called Frontier/exe in drive C (somewhere down the directory structure) which presumably I have to find and then load.

[Edited by andrew at 22:40, 7/7/2007]
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Jeffrey Lee Message #103388, posted by Phlamethrower at 21:58, 7/7/2007, in reply to message #103387
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Enter:

c:
cd c:\path\to\frontier
frontier.exe

Where 'path\to\frontier' is obviously the path to wherever frontier.exe is.

Depending on how you've got DOS mode set up (presumably you got there by quitting out of Windows, or rebooting into DOS mode?), you may not have sound/mouse drivers, so be warned. If you've got Windows 95 installed you might be able to run Elite from in windows instead.

[edit - gah, something keeps eating the slashes]

[Edited by Phlamethrower at 23:00, 7/7/2007]
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Andrew Message #103393, posted by andrew at 00:57, 8/7/2007, in reply to message #103388
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I've tried typing in the pathname and it just freezes. I don't have the mouse drivers as I couldn't get W98 to work doing that! Sound drivers are optional for W98 on the PC card but that may cause the problem with Elite2.

What do you mean by "cd c:" ? I get "invalid directory" from that.
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Jason Togneri Message #103397, posted by filecore at 09:23, 8/7/2007, in reply to message #103393

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The answers to all of your problems lie here.

[Edited by filecore at 10:24, 8/7/2007]
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Jeffrey Lee Message #103398, posted by Phlamethrower at 09:28, 8/7/2007, in reply to message #103397
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The answers to all of your problems lie here.

[Edited by filecore at 10:24, 8/7/2007]
I think you'll find he's using Windows 98, not XP tongue
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VinceH Message #103399, posted by VincceH at 09:33, 8/7/2007, in reply to message #103398
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The answers to all of your problems lie here.

[Edited by filecore at 10:24, 8/7/2007]
I think you'll find he's using Windows 98, not XP tongue
His URL still got a chuckle from me, though. smile
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Jason Togneri Message #103400, posted by filecore at 10:43, 8/7/2007, in reply to message #103398

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I think you'll find he's using Windows 98, not XP tongue
Yeah but a lot of the Win2000 tips (despite the URL only saying XP, it's for both) are applicable to Win98 too.
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Andrew Message #103417, posted by andrew at 17:24, 8/7/2007, in reply to message #103400
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I'd like to know if anybody has got it working on a RISC OS PCcard as PCPro uses its own sound drivers and I don't want to mess up my installation.
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Jason Togneri Message #103430, posted by filecore at 05:56, 9/7/2007, in reply to message #103417

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I think I did, but that was some years ago now and it was all choppy and horrid. I don't remember how I managed it.
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