Help with Nascar2 and Win95

I wish I could run the game in DOS. After a hard disk crash, I had to reinstall everything, including the operating system, and now when I exit to DOS mode, my CD drivers aren't loaded and I don't know how to make them load again (I must be having a brain lapse or getting to used to Win95). I like running in DOS mode better but now I'm stuck in Win95. :(

Why do you need your cd drivers for N2. Just go to the nascr2 dir and type nascar2. That way you don't need the cd to play.

>Why do you need your cd drivers for N2. Just go to the nascr2 dir and >type nascar2. That way you don't need the cd to play. If he did a full install. Looks like he needs to do some reading on how to set up a dos shortcut. On the win95 cdrom there is a directory containing an online version of The Windows95 Resource Guide.If he opens that and searches for shortcuts it should come up and explain in detail how to do it. There's many ways to get dos up and running under win95, but a simple way is to go to the Dosstart.bat in the windows directory and just put your cdrom and mouse refernce lines in there then simply restart in dos mode. -- Nos http://www.cris.com/~nosfer/index.html

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> >Why do you need your cd drivers for N2. Just go to the nascr2 dir and > >type nascar2. That way you don't need the cd to play. > If he did a full install. Looks like he needs to do some reading on > how to set up a dos shortcut. On the win95 cdrom there is a directory > containing an online version of The Windows95 Resource Guide.If he > opens that and searches for shortcuts it should come up and explain in > detail how to do it. There's many ways to get dos up and running under > win95, but a simple way is to go to the Dosstart.bat in the windows > directory and just put your cdrom and mouse refernce lines in there > then simply restart in dos mode.

I don't know if this will work for all CDROM's out there, but it has for three that I've owned... just run the install from the driver floppy that came with the CDROM, and it'll put the drivers on your C: drive. Some installers will add a line to your Config.sys and autoexec.bat, others will just report the lines to you and want you to add them. In either event, the one for the Config.sys is fine and should be added. That's the low level device driver, and it won't affect Win95, but it will be there ready and waiting for DOS to use it. The line for the autoexec.bat (it's the line that references "mscdex") is a different matter. That one should be placed in the "dosstart.bat" file in the Windows directory. That way it won't load until you quit to DOS from Win95. If the CDROM install places this line in autoexec.bat, just cut it from there and paste it into dosstart.bat. Trips