Running Windows 3.1 in DosBox

Hey guys. I hope this is the right place for this cause this is my first time posting. I'm trying to play an old game (Betrayal in Antara) and I found an old post where it was said that the game runs well under win 3.x in dosbox so I have ins...




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#181742 - 05/22/08 08:32 PM Running Windows 3.1 in DosBox
Aether Demon Offline
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Registered: 05/22/08
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Hey guys. I hope this is the right place for this cause this is my first time posting.

I'm trying to play an old game (Betrayal in Antara) and I found an old post where it was said that the game runs well under win 3.x in dosbox so I have installed Windows 3.1 in DosBox but whenever i start it up i get the following error messages -

Cannot open program-group file 'C:\WINDOWS\MAIN.GRP'
Do you want program Manager to try to load it in the future?

Cannot open program-group file 'C:\WINDOWS\STARTUP.GRP'
Do you want program Manager to try to load it in the future?

Cannot open program-group file 'C:\WINDOWS\ACCESSOR.GRP'
Do you want program Manager to try to load it in the future?

Cannot open program-group file 'C:\WINDOWS\GAMES.GRP'
Do you want program Manager to try to load it in the future?

As a result, when windows opens up there are no icons that appear on the screen which is going to make it difficult to install my game, and install drivers.

Any help would be very much appreciated smile

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#181754 - 05/23/08 02:04 AM Re: Running Windows 3.1 in DosBox
DosFreak Offline
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How did you mount the C:\ drive in DOSBox?

Windows needs to be in C:\Windows so you need to mount a "C:\"

So on your host computer you'd have directory "C:\DOS\Windows". In DOSBox you'd do a "Mount c c:\DOS".

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#181759 - 05/23/08 06:25 AM Re: Running Windows 3.1 in DosBox
Aether Demon Offline
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Registered: 05/22/08
Posts: 4
I just changed it to the way you suggested and it worked great!

I got my sound and graphics drivers installed and everything.

Thanks lots DosFreak!

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