hi guys im new to these forums but not TES.... anyways i downloaded daggerfall yesterday followed bethesdas instructions to play and it worked fine i made my guy played for an hour, saved and left. today i put in the codes and it says i have put the wrong CD in, so i reinstall the program, do it all over and it still says i put the wrong cd in. keep in mind this is the download from the official TES site. any help appreciated! thx

First of all, I'd ask to have this moved to the Past Games section; it's where you'll find all the topics on Daggerfall. You can probably find a solution to your problem just from looking through a few topics there, like the one linked to below. If not I'm sure someone there will help ya.

http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1012957

I kept getting the same message, and I think I was mounting d: wrong. Basically, I was forgetting to add "-label daggerfall" when mounting D.
So

mount d ~/dosgames/dfcd -t cdrom -label Daggerfall

worked, but if I only mounted with

mount d ~/dosgames/dfcd -t cdrom

I'm told I have the wrong CD.

yeah you have to label the emulated cd

Here's a tip for those of you don't want to have to type all that every single time. Your dosbox.conf file should have a section at the end called [autoexec]. Here's what my autoexec section looks like:



Of course, you can't use this directly, since you're probably not using linux, but you can use this section to set up dosbox to automatically mount your C drive. If you're convinced Daggerfall is the only game you'll be using Dosbox for, you can also throw that d drive mounting command in there; you can even start the program. If not, there's another way.

Into whatever directory you're using as your C drive, put a file called DAGGER.BAT. Type the following into it:



This will mount your D drive, correctly every time, and save you some keystrokes. Basically, DOS (and by extension, Dosbox) will run any file ending in .bat (a batch file), executing each command in sequence.

thx guys got it to work today, but still having problems with gameplay. how to i use spells? the defaults dont appear to be working... plus i whenever i face that imp in the privateers hold i can never hit it why is that?

Go into your \Dagger directory and open z.cfg with notepad. Where it says Control change what's there to viewplyr.dat. Save and close.

Now go into the game and and hit ESC and look at the controls. You will see you know have a WASD setup, with all the other keys more like what you see in modern games. The spellbook has moved from F5 to TAB, so now you hit TAB and then double click on the spell you want. If it's a touch or self spell, it will fire immediately. If it's a target spell when you close the spellbook you will be told to click to fire the spell. Aim at the enemy by putting him in the centre of your view and click the left mouse button. The viewplyr.dat also allows for mouselook, meaning you use the mouse to look around. In other words, just like any FPS game today. With the new commands, F will bring up your equipped weapon and then hold down the right mouse button and move the mouse to swing. Left and right for slash and up and down for thrust.

Hope this helps.

thx! its working great now!