{"id":816,"date":"2011-01-03T19:31:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T19:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=816"},"modified":"2024-05-12T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T09:21:00","slug":"running-lba-2-under-dosbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/running-lba-2-under-dosbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Running LBA 2 under Dosbox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This was made in 2011; I tried in May 2024 to install it on a W11 laptop. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dosbox.com\/wiki\/\">Dosbox <\/a>went on OK and I found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dosbox.com\/comp_list.php?showID=1237&amp;letter=L\">some runes<\/a> to mount the CD and create a game folder, but it still insists on having the CD mounted. The answer is <strong>probably <\/strong>steam or gog games. Overleaf\/below, I have left the original runes on the page; they may help someone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I was reminded of <a href=\"https:\/\/magicball.net\/\">magicball.net<\/a>, a fabulous resource who have <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.magicball.net\/showthread.php?t=6943\">this thread<\/a> , on making the game work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to run LBA 2, the PIF requires the following command<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<pre>C:\\DOSe\\dosbox\\DOSBox-0.72\\dosbox.exe \n    -c \"mount d: d:\\ -t cdrom -lable lba2 -ioctl -usedcd 1 -fullscreen\"\n    -c \"mount c c:\\DOSe\\lba2\" \n    -c \"C:\" \n    -c \"lba2\" \n    -c \"exit\"<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I have tried to get this to run in a .bat, but this works. Obviously the directory path will vary and the name of the CD path. See also <a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/dosbox\/\">dosbox<\/a> for links to other LBA resources on the &#8216;net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And for LBAHQ&#8217;s version of the original adventure<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<pre>C:\\DOSe\\dosbox\\DOSBox-0.72\\dosbox.exe \n    -c \"mount d: d:\\ -t cdrom\"\n    -c \"mount c c:\\lba\" \n    -c \"C:\" \n    -c \"lba\" \n    -c \"exit\"<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was made in 2011; I tried in May 2024 to install it on a W11 laptop. Dosbox went on OK and I found some runes to mount the CD and create a game folder, but it still insists on having the CD mounted. The answer is probably steam or gog games. Overleaf\/below, I have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[60,3,7],"tags":[232,921,235,233,911,234,915],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","category-technology","category-virtualisation","tag-dosbox","tag-games","tag-lba","tag-lba2","tag-technology","tag-twinsen","tag-virtualisation"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@davelevy_eu\/112427378776279526","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/lba2-twinsen-w1080.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10936,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/10936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}