Civ1 and dosbox

[Froffer]

Can anyone tell me y i cannot save my game in civ1 using dosbox and how do i make it fullscreen?

 

[Dack]

Froffer said: "...dosbox ... how do i make it fullscreen?"
DosBox has lots of online help and suggestions
http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Basic_Setup_and_Installation_of_DosBox
The short answer: Full Screen - press ALT+ENTER to go into and out of full screen.

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Froffer said: "... i cannot save my game in civ1 using dosbox"
Are your CIV files in C:\MPS\CIV ? If not move them there.

Open notepad enter the following two lines.

cd C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.72
dosbox -c "mount c \mps\civ\" -c "c:" -c "civ.exe"

In notepad use save as… to save file as C:\MPS\myciv.bat

NOTE: above C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.72 should be replaced with the path to your version of DOSBox, as your version is most likely different.

Then using my computer open folder c:\MPS double click on myciv.bat and CIV should run normally.

 

[Froffer]

chers thanks for that

 

[Froffer]

im using a cd-rom and still cant seem to save that notepad file

 

[Dack]

im using a cd-rom and still cant seem to save that notepad file

You must get the files off the cd-rom and onto your C: drive. Is there an install program or bat file on the CD? None of the files should be compressed so copy the files on the CD to c:\MPS\CIV
If you still can't get it to work, give more description of what is on the CD.

 

[Whelkman]

For reference, the CD does have an installer, but straight copying works, too. Copying is easier since it requires less interaction with the emulated DOS environment.

 

[Froffer]

hi yeah i done that, but nothing shows up when i click on the bat file or the civ file that i copied to the C: drive(dos window briefly appears then disapears).

I tryed finding it through dosbox but it cant find it. The CD is read only files is this a problem?

files on the CD are a CIV.exe, Adobe Manaul, shortcut to ms-dos and acrobat folder with acrodos, acrowin and acromac folders. The Acrodos folder has an install file?

 

[Whelkman]

Maybe it doesn't have an installer. The Microprose four pack did. Anyway, I can't make it much simpler than this:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=5412978#post5412978

 

[Froffer]

Hey can someone tell me how to view fullscreen in dosbox, when i push ALT Enter it just enlarges the black background and the actrual gaming screen is still the same size??

 

[Whelkman]

What's fullresolution set to in dosbox.conf?

 

[hexiou]

How about use D-fend ?
It is easy to set the fullscreen on dosbox.

 

[hexiou]

If possible,I will install win98 in another PC for play many DOS GAME.
It's a dream that i want to try.