Daggerfall now available as a free download : The Elder Scrolls Series Discussion

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 6:22 am

Again, there's a fast mirror. I got it in about a minute.

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 8:38 am

I never thought this day would come. It's beautiful. Thank you, guys.

Of course, I've still got my CDs, but now I'm spared the hassle of finding them.

Now, if only I can reconstruct my old Windows 98 PC. Truly that is the best system to play Daggerfall on.

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 11:33 am

It's no more than 20kb a second?!

Use the mirror posted on the previous page or so. My friend downloaded it at a steady 300kb/s from there.

» Sat Nov 20, 2010 11:56 pm

Fileshack mirror works. And the instructions are perfect, only exactly at the end I exited and restarted dosbox because it said something about "not using the original CD, please insert correct CD".

Game works.

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 12:24 am

This is probably not possible, as you'd have added it otherwise, but me and Sheikah aren't relishing the prospect of typing in the console every time we want to play. Is there an easier way to launch it?

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 2:31 pm

I can't quite explain the feelings I have right now. I've wanted to play this game since I first heard of it 5 years ago when I joined the forums but I didn't want to buy it off amazon. I'm so excited to finally have the chance to play it. I will start downloading soon. Thankyou Bethesda!!!!

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 2:09 am

Yeah I found the fileshack mirror, got it very quickly! And wow it's basically just the files on the CD, meaning I can probably just burn it to a disc and autorun it.

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 2:54 pm

Use the mirror posted on the previous page or so. My friend downloaded it at a steady 300kb/s from there.

Bwhahaha, I got it going at 1.2MB/s when I got it

I love my interwebz...:wub:

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 12:38 pm

This is probably not possible, as you'd have added it otherwise, but me and Sheikah aren't relishing the prospect of typing in the console every time we want to play. Is there an easier way to launch it?

Open up your dosbox.conf file and scroll down to the very bottom. There should be a header titled "[autoexec]".

You can add lines of DOS commands under that section and they will automatically be executed when you start DOSBox. For instance, here's mine:

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.

mount C C:\DOSBox-0.73\games\ -freesize 800
C:

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 1:36 pm

YES!!!! Once I get the internet up and running at my new place, I'm so downloading this!

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 11:00 am

This is probably not possible, as you'd have added it otherwise, but me and Sheikah aren't relishing the prospect of typing in the console every time we want to play. Is there an easier way to launch it?

Yes there is, instead of typing all the commands navigate to "C:\Documents and Settings\Paul\Local Settings\Application Data\DOSBox" (you may have to reveal hidden folders in Tools -> Folder Options) and add the command under the autoexec area at the bottom.

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 6:26 am

I hadn't even realized. Thanks so much!

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 9:45 am

Open up your dosbox.conf file and scroll down to the very bottom. There should be a header titled "[autoexec]".

You can add lines of DOS commands under that section and they will automatically be executed when you start DOSBox. For instance, here's mine:

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.

mount C C:\DOSBox-0.73\games\ -freesize 800
C:

So, basically I should just paste the bolded bits there?

21) Each time you want to run Daggerfall, you will need to start DOS-Box and enter these commands:
?mount c c:\dosgames -freesize 1000
?mount d c:\dosgames\dfcd -t cdrom -label Daggerfall
?c:
? cd\dagger
? dagger

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 5:54 am

Yes! That's basically it.

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 4:44 am

Yes! That's basically it.

Oh awesome, it works! Thanks a bunch

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 7:51 am

Wow, this is great news to anyone who hasn't paid 60 dollars for it within the past 2 months. But to all those who said it couldn't happen, and I believed them, it reassures me of the type of company that Bethesda is, one that pleases the fans and supports the great games they have made.

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 8:27 am

Attention:

Save your game the instant you are done with character creation!

That way if when you die in the first dungeon, you won't have to start all over.

Thank you.

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 8:05 am

So it finally happened.

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 12:03 am

Incredible.

Whatever you did to make this possible, Bethesda - thank you.

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 2:29 am

err I hate this I had just bought my copy of daggerfall last night...

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 8:44 am

*waits for free release of Redgaurd and Battlespire to brag saying i have all the TES's*

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 3:36 am

Oh wow...this is fantastic day! :goodjob: Thank you all so much for all you in providing us with these games, both the free and not-so-free ones.

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 1:39 pm

Ok, I don't understand the install instrustions either. I downloaded DF fine but now what? I read the entire install instrustions but there is no folder named dosgames in program files/DOSBOX. I tried typing the lines in DOSBOX but it just said "illegal command"

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 7:08 am

Ok, I don't understand the install instrustions either. I downloaded DF fine but now what? I read the entire install instrustions but there is no folder named dosgames in program files/DOSBOX. I tried typing the lines in DOSBOX but it just said "illegal command"

Making a new folder never hurt anybody.

» Sun Nov 21, 2010 10:39 am

YEEEEEEAAAAAH!!!!!!!!

Thank goodness I won't have to spend $20ish dollars now to buy it. TAKE THAT THOSE WHO BOUGHT IT JUST A FEW WEAK AGO!