GP2 in DOS mode problem

When I try to run gp2 in dos, I get a "cd-rom/mscdex not detected. I've got a cd-rom and I'm able to play in win95, but I'd rather use dos. I installed the game using the MS-DOS command in win95. Any suggestions?

Never mind, I figured it out....

> When I try to run gp2 in dos, I get a "cd-rom/mscdex not detected. I've > got a cd-rom and I'm able to play in win95, but I'd rather use dos. I > installed the game using the MS-DOS command in win95. Any suggestions? Hi, When the computer re-boots into DOS, you need to load your MS-DOS cd-rom drivers. To do this, you need to install the setup disks that came with your cd-rom. These should create two files in your root directory - autoexec.bat and config.sys. These files will contain the commands to load your dos drivers at startup. Barry Johnson

you can install the "nocdrom" file for GP2 , then it dosen't check for the CD. Get it at - http://www.ozemail.com.au/~smeggy goto GP2 page On Sat, 19 Oct 1996 22:48:19 +1100, Barry Johnson

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>> When I try to run gp2 in dos, I get a "cd-rom/mscdex not detected. I've >> got a cd-rom and I'm able to play in win95, but I'd rather use dos. I >> installed the game using the MS-DOS command in win95. Any suggestions? >Hi, >When the computer re-boots into DOS, you need to load your MS-DOS cd-rom >drivers. To do this, you need to install the setup disks that came with >your cd-rom. These should create two files in your root directory - >autoexec.bat and config.sys. These files will contain the commands to >load your dos drivers at startup. >Barry Johnson

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> you can install the "nocdrom" file for GP2 , then it dosen't check for > the CD. Get it at - > >> When I try to run gp2 in dos, I get a "cd-rom/mscdex not detected. I've > >> got a cd-rom and I'm able to play in win95, but I'd rather use dos. I > >> installed the game using the MS-DOS command in win95. Any suggestions?

Where is the cdrom-drive letterdefined in the gp2? After I installed another HD in my computer (the cd -driveletter changed from e: to j: ) gp2 couldn't find the CD anymore (in fact I got the same cd-rom/mscdex not detected -message as mentioned above). Finally I had to install the whole game again. Fortunately I managed to get the save-game-state-files etc. from the old directory. Is there really no way of "telling" the program where the cd-drive lies. -- ________________________________________________________________ / 02150 Espoo / / puh. 0400-810880 URL: http://www.hut.fi/~ppihlgre / /_______________________________________________________________/

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> > you can install the "nocdrom" file for GP2 , then it dosen't check for > > the CD. Get it at - > > >> When I try to run gp2 in dos, I get a "cd-rom/mscdex not detected. I've > > >> got a cd-rom and I'm able to play in win95, but I'd rather use dos. I > > >> installed the game using the MS-DOS command in win95. Any suggestions? > Where is the cdrom-drive letterdefined in the gp2? After I installed > another HD in my computer (the cd -driveletter changed from e: to j: ) > gp2 couldn't find the CD anymore (in fact I got the same cd-rom/mscdex > not detected -message as mentioned above). Finally I had to install the > whole game again. Fortunately I managed to get the save-game-state-files > etc. from the old directory. Is there really no way of "telling" the > program > where the cd-drive lies. >____/

If you reinstall the game, it will locate the new drive letter for the CD. Also look in the gp2 directory, there is a very small file named f1system.dat. If you open this file you will see where it thinks the CD is, just change the drive letter there and it should work ( back up the file first ) Also if you read the readme file ( .txt ) there is a switch you can use whne you start gp2 to tell it where to look for the CD. Something like this : gp2 cddrive:J