Need help with Ween, i can´t install game to get the Files

Boss · Post by **Boss** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:26 am

Hello,
i have the 5 disk euro version from ween the procecey, but i cant install them to get the right files for scumm. i try dosbox and a bootdisk, nothing work. anybody a idea what can i do?

greeetings

zorbid · Post by **zorbid** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:10 am

Did you try to copy the 5 floppies to one directory on your hard drive, and to mount this directory as the A: drive in DOSBox (with another directory mounted as C:)?

Launch the install/setup.exe from A:, and ignore the requests to swap the disks, and continue the installation.

It's usually the easiest way to install multi-disk games...

Boss · Post by **Boss** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:45 am

dosbox makes "CPU:GRP5:illegal call" . and i try a bootdisk , then the installer says no hdd found

zorbid · Post by **zorbid** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:45 pm

I've seen your message on VOGONS... I won't have any better advice than what you can find there, for the DOSBox path, at least.

Collector · Post by **Collector** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:44 pm

Boss wrote:i try a bootdisk , then the installer says no hdd found

If you used a DOS boot disk and your harddrive is NTFS, DOS will not see your harddrive. Versions of DOS earlier than 7 can only see FAT16 formated harddrives. I forget the exact version of DOS that can see FAT32, but it will not see NTFS, either.

Boss · Post by **Boss** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:17 am

Collector wrote:
Boss wrote:i try a bootdisk , then the installer says no hdd found
If you used a DOS boot disk and your harddrive is NTFS, DOS will not see your harddrive. Versions of DOS earlier than 7 can only see FAT16 formated harddrives. I forget the exact version of DOS that can see FAT32, but it will not see NTFS, either.

i use a fat 16 partition for my dos games. i can access with boot disk to this drive. i try another boot disk, but the same problem.

mayby my first disk a broken, can everbody check this , this is disk 1-5

21.10.1992 13:00 8.566 ALL.ASK
21.10.1992 13:00 25 GO.BAT
07.02.2000 18:31 16.895 INSTALL.EXE
21.10.1992 15:42 1.329.152 INTRO.$00
21.10.1992 15:43 1.457.152 INTRO.$01
21.10.1992 15:43 1.457.152 INTRO.$02
21.10.1992 15:43 1.457.152 INTRO.$03
21.10.1992 15:44 1.261.461 INTRO.$04
21.10.1992 13:00 3.524 L360.GDR
21.10.1992 13:00 87.905 LOADER.EXE
21.10.1992 13:00 4.844 LVGA.GDR
21.10.1992 15:44 580 INSTALL.INF

DrMcCoy · Post by **DrMcCoy** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:09 am

There is another way: Just concatenate the INTRO.$* (in their numeric order) into an INTRO.STK.

The UNIX way would be

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cat INTRO.$00 INTRO.$01 INTRO.$02 INTRO.$03 INTRO.$04 > INTRO.STK

On Windows, it should be

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copy /B INTRO.$00+INTRO.$01+INTRO.$02+INTRO.$03+INTRO.$04 INTRO.STK

, or at least that works in the Windows 2000 I've got running in a VirtualBox.

You can then delete the INTRO.$* files, and only keep the INTRO.STK.

Boss · Post by **Boss** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:12 pm

@DrMcCoy

nice, ween work with scumm, thanks. but i dont know why the installer are corrupt?

danke nach braunschweig , auf die idee bin ich nicht gekommen einfach die files zusammenzufügen.

mfg

Boss · Post by **Boss** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 7:31 am

i ceck the install.exe with a hexeditor. and the file are empty? only 00 00 00 00 are listend . mayby the disk is broken by my discdrive. have anybody mayby only the install.exe for me?

greetings

md5 · Post by **md5** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 7:34 am

You don't need the installer executable, as DrMcCoy said. Just use the commands suggested