apples24

it is to go on an old 200 mhz laptop with win 98

i loaded the lapy the normall way and plonked in the cd and manually dragged all filles to my desktop and they do open with dos but normal widows is operating in background

im having troubles getting the software and hardware to work properly

i think its supposed to be in dos purely ie i restart pooter in dos mde and load software etc

how do i do that?

can i install the software in restart dos mode?

ie i feel i wan to wipe everything start fresh and install it all properly

Jim Galbally

yes do that, copy all the files from your CD to your HDD and then boot the PC up in MS DOS MODE (or shutdwon... restart in MS-DOS Mode) and then run the file manually

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WIN 98 also allows you to.....

You can also copy all the software to the pc, create a shortcut on the desktop to start it.
Then right click the shortcut and edit the properties and set the background
mode to suspend mode and full screen and it usually runs as if only DOS is running.
Hope that makes sense.

apples24

jim how do i load a program from ms dos?

secs i think i know what you mean, but to be honest ive watched this sort of software used before and the pooter boots up in dos and they load from there

i havent a clue how to use dos tho

i have it all stored on desktop at the mo under a couple files but want to give the dos route a go to see if works better

Jim Galbally

ok the prompt tells yuo what drive and directory youre in:

so C:\> means your on the C Drive n the root directory (ie not in anything)

C:\WINDOWS\TEMP> means you're in the windows/temp folder/directory

DIR gives you a list of all the files where you are at the moment. 9the folers have <DIR> next to them (ignore the ones with one and wo fullstops)

to move to a directory you typ CD befoore it (so to move to windows director you type CD WINDOWS

if you type CD .. it brings you back a step

when you run the DIR command look for files eith BAT COM or EXE next to them... these are the programs you can run...

so say your sofatware is in the MAPPING folder...

c:\> CD MAPPING
c:\MAPPING> DIR

then itll list all the programs look for the program ones (probably EXE) so says its called startmap.exe

c:\MAPPING> STARTMAP

program should now run (in theory)

apples24

fook me lol ill boot your old lappy up now then while im on ere and have a fiddle



Oh by the way your sis left lots of pics on that laptop etc lol

apples24

the file i want is on my desktop under the name software then various files are contained inside

Jim Galbally

all fully clothed i assume?

apples24

lol lol lol yer

apples24

hmnn typind dir brings a lot of stuff up but nothing i wrecognise


at mo just says C:\windows> with lots files above from were i typed dir noting i wrecognise, but i cant see all of them as i cant sem to scan up to see the ones past the top of the page

Jim Galbally

where is the folder with the software located? if its the desktop try this...

CD DESKTOP

then DIR

should see the foler there so CD into that
then dir

then tell us whats in there

apples24

ok getting somewere i got into C:\windows\desctop\software

thats the folder i want

its listed 3 files

tachos"1
schema"1
chiptune

but i cant get into the two with the " but as it is not actually a " it looks like two of ' but a lot close or could be one squigly line

either way im not typing the right cd blah blah to get into the tachos folder

what could that bit be ?\
" ''

apples24

ok right i renamed file now im in to the tachos file

but it seems vever ending

how do i load a file as i keep going cd blah blah then i access it press dir and it lists so i go cd blah blah blah
seems never ending?

apples24

sorted

well it loads from dos anyway

Jim Galbally

its a tilde

~

normally to the left of the one or next to enter depending on keyboard...

its becasue DOS only understands 8 character filenames and windows does 200+

so if youve got a file called "biglongfilenamethatsdosdontunderstand.txt" when you view it in dos it truncated it to an 8 digit name calling it BIGLON~1.txt