Dosbox Helper

Post » Mon Jan 24, 2011 2:38 pm

Hi, I know this isn't directly about the game content of TES games, but it has to do with the running of them. Is there anyone here who can help me with Dosbox helper? It's listed on UESP as an easy way to run the TES games, with a menu-based interface and simple to use.

I've run into problems. It says all I have to do is follow the prompts and instructions on screen. I do that, and go "install daggerfall". It says to put my Daggerfall CD in drive D. So I change set=cdrom to c:\ and see if it'll search. Nope, it won't search. So I extract DFInstall and stick 'em in C (I'll skip telling you about all the screwing around and messing with stuff) under my new folder: games\TES\. Ok, once DFCD and Dagger are in there, and then set the conf file to set=cdrom c:\games\tes\. I try the program again and hit install daggerfall CD. It actually works, and now I can use daggerfall. But Arena? Apparently they didn't bother to make the files tidy, like in DF because there are about 100 files, folderless in Arena. Anyway, I have no idea what to do now. I literally seem to have to extract all of Arena's files into the games\tes\ folder, where DFCD and friends are, to get it to recognize as "optical drive" where Arena is stored. But, Arena and DF both have an "install.exe" and a couple other things. I tried overwriting them, but it wouldn't work. I'm assuming if I rename them, Dosbox helper won't recognize it as the Arena CD. I don't actually know which file is known as the Arena CD for making it think I have the Cd in there.

Anyway, Dosbox helper does NOT seem to be all that user friendly like it's supposed to be. Is there anyone around here who's used it that can help me figure it out? Is it made to be used with DosBox .072 or something? UESP seems to talk about .073 so I thought that was it.

Thanks.
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