>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM Matt Smith wrote: >> > >> > I have a CD of games from Interplay and when I launch it in >> > virtualbox/freedos it loads the menu briefly then stops and goes to >> > a black screen. [..]
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM Jim Hall wrote: >> [..] >> What do you do to "launch" the Interplay CD in FreeDOS? Is there a >> Batch file menu that you run, or something else? On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM Matt Smith wrote: > > Yes correct running Windows 10 and it is a batch file to run the > luncher to select what game to "install". > It's going to be very hard to help debug this since I don't have the BAT file, and I don't know where this "Interplay CD" came from. I googled "Interplay DOS games CD" and found a link on Archive.org that seems to be a collection of games, but they are a mix of DOS and Windows games. The person who uploaded this "Interplay CD" is just some random person on the Internet: https://archive.org/details/20230723_20230723_0858 Since the CD seems to have a mix of DOS and Windows stuff, and was uploaded fairly recently by a retro games enthusiast, I don't know if their batch file is meant to run in classic DOS or Windows. Note that Windows batch supports other commands that classic DOS batch does not. If the batch file was written for Windows, it just may not work on DOS. One way around this is to install the DOS games "manually." Back in the "DOS days," that's what you'd do anyway. - If the installer is in a directory ("folder") you can probably run a SETUP or INSTALL program under DOS. - If the installer is in a zip file, then you'll need to unzip it first. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
