I want to play DOS lemmings so I downloaded DOSBox-0.62 but every time i try to run the game is closes, saying that it couldn't find MSCDEX. I can't find a way around it.

Hi,

downloaded DOSBOX 0.63 yesterday. Running it under Windows ME does work well. Maybe the update will help.

Did you mounted your CDROM drive in Dosbox before you've started the game? If not, you should try it now.

The steps required to mount your CD drive are listed in the Dosbox's readme, and here they are just to save time. :)

To mount your cdrom in DOSBox you have to specify some additional options
  when mounting the cdrom.
  To enable the most basic cdrom support:
    - mount d f:\ -t cdrom
  To enable low-level SDL-support:
    - mount d f:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0
  To enable low-level ioctl-support(win2k/xp/linux):
    - mount d f:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
  To enable low-level aspi-support (win98 with aspi-layer installed):
    - mount d f:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -apsi
 
  In the commands: - d    driveletter you in DOSBox
                   - f:\ location of cdrom on your PC.
                   - 0   The number of the cdrom drive, reported by mount -cd

Yes, I had the same problem. I was curious why you needed to mount your CD-ROM drive to play CustLemm...


I'm having a different kind of problem trying to play ONML under DOSBox. It gives an error message saying "Please insert Oh No! More Lemmings disk". When I run ONML from XP, it runs without this error (but with no sound/music).

I must have mounted something because now i can ONLY run dos programs in DOSbox. if i try to run one in XP an error:
'C:\windows\system32\autoexec.nt' comes up. it says that the system file isn't suitable for running MS-DOS applications.

Grrrrrr! >:(

I might try that update....

Hi, i am totally new to this DosBox thing. i got the latest one 0.69 or something. i get "C:\windows\system32\autoexec.nt' comes up. it says that the system file isn't suitable for running MS-DOS applications"  i dont know how to use DosBox so if you could go through it step by step that would be awesome.  The mounting instructions u have above i tried but it kept saying  F drive doesnt exist or something. im running Windows XP  -  please help!

0.69??? O_O

The latest version of Dosbox is 0.63!

I don't know the problem about Lemmings, everything works correctly for me!

Shvegait, I have the same problem. I try to play the game using another vgalemmi.exe and another main.dat files.

piainp2, some old games and dos games aren't supported on Windows XP. You must use Dosbox to play them.

You can go on the website of Dosbox for more help: Here

Here's an example for the command Mount:
mount [any letter] [the access line]

So, type:
mount d d:\Games\Lemmings\
d:
lemmings.exe

The game should work!

DragonsLover, by the way, I managed to play ONML under regular XP without the error (though sacrificing the sound).

Shvegait, that way, try to run the game using the Windows 95 compatibility. And see if it works.

I don't have Windows XP myself, but I'm sure that there's somewhere, a place to set the compatibility of programs.

I'm confused about what you're saying. It worked just fine! I got through all the levels except the very last one.

Oh... ok! :-[

I know a solution to the AUTOEXEC.NT problem!

Go to X:\WINDOWS\REPAIR (Replace X with your hard drive letter) and copy AUTOEXEC.NT to X:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32.

Hey, it works.

Thanks Ksoft!

The reason CustLemm needs a CD drive is because it attempts to play CD music as background music in the levels. There is a track pattern.

Are you saying that if I put an audio CD in my CD drive and run custlemm the music that plays will be that thats on the audio CD?

I tried and YES!!! When the level starts, the music on the CD is playing during the level! Isn't that cool? B)

EDIT: Only these tracks are playing for each level, then it loops and get back to the first one, in order:

9 - 10 - 11 - 13 - 14 - 7

Watch out not to set the volume of your CD player to maximum or else you won't hear any sound effects.