Using Dosbox...

Started by Vulture, October 12, 2009, 07:10:17 PM

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Vulture

using dosbox, if i were to just get the WADs for chex quest 2 and 3 and put them into the same directory with the original chex quest WAD, would i be able to run them like that? and if so, where can i get just the WAD files?

Replica

Unfortunately you cannot. CQ3 requires ZDoom to run. You're on a mac correct? I don't think dosbox will work. Did you post a topic about your loading problem on Zdoom's forum?
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Quote from: Replica on October 12, 2009, 07:16:15 PM
Unfortunately you cannot. CQ3 requires ZDoom to run. You're on a mac correct? I don't think dosbox will work. Did you post a topic about your loading problem on Zdoom's forum?

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Replica, you do realize he already got CQ1 running on his Mac? And if he wanted to use the stolen CQ3, that would work.

I believe it would work, Vulture. Try putting -file chex2.wad after the regular command to run CQ1 and see if it works.

Ex.

...\Games\CQ\chex.exe -file chex2.wad

OR (if you have the chex2.bat file)

...\Games\CQ\chex2.bat

Try it out! :)
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Vulture

what's the stolen CQ3? im really new to all this, i only got interested in chex quest again a few weeks ago after discovering i still had the cd, and ive been a mac user for a few years and well... i was never good with windows.

and yep, CQ1 worked. where can i find this stolen version of cq3? (that will work in DOS, right?) and what exactly is a .bat file and where do i find it?

at least DOS was easier to learn than i thought it would be, took me about an hour messing around before i figured out how it works.

i know i have a lot to catch up on and may seem to know nothing most of the time, but i appreciate the help everyone.


noob1234

you can download it here. its from the gallery.
i dont know anything about mac... but a .bat file is a batch file:
Quote from: wikipediaIn DOS, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows, a batch file is a text file containing a series of commands intended to be executed by the command interpreter. When a batch file is run, the shell program (usually COMMAND.COM or cmd.exe) reads the file and executes its commands, normally line-by-line. Batch files are useful for running a sequence of executables automatically and are often used by system administrators to automate tedious processes. Unix-like operating systems (such as Linux) have a similar type of file called a shell script.
DOS batch files have the filename extension .bat. Batch files for other environments may have different extensions, e.g. .cmd or .bat in the Microsoft Windows NT-family of operating systems and OS/2, or .btm in 4DOS and related shells. The now-obsolete Windows 9x family of operating systems only recognize the .bat extension.


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Quote from: Vulture on October 12, 2009, 07:34:33 PM
what's the stolen CQ3? im really new to all this, i only got interested in chex quest again a few weeks ago after discovering i still had the cd, and ive been a mac user for a few years and well... i was never good with windows.
It was an early mod made by somebody who took most of the textures and sprites from other wads. I think there's a list on the doom wiki. EDIT: and in the gallery. xD
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Lee-king

Wow =:-) I haven't used DosBox in a very long time. Perhaps I'll play around with it a little more today =:-)