Star Wars Tie Fighter Collector's CD-ROM Tutorial

mbrett

@edmaul69 As I said, I bought the game from GOG.com. It came as an installation executable, not a CD image.

It was late last night.
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edmaul69

@mbrett in the dosbox folder should be the dosbox config. Can you scroll to the bottom of that config and post what it says?

mbrett

@edmaul69 This is what I see in DOSBOX folder. No config file, just a config executable.
https://imgur.com/kviWqQ3

In other news, I can probably find an image of the CD-ROM online if the GOG.com dl is proving unworkable.

edmaul69

@mbrett i am not at my pc so i will try not to have a typo. I can gaurantee the cd is setup correctly. If it doesnt work, let me know and i will fix it when i get home. This goes in the .sh file you create and remember to give +x or 0777 permissions to it. Please change the name of your folder to TIECD in all caps from the long name it is. This is based on it being named this new name.

#!/bin/bash
/opt/retropie/emulators/dosbox/bin/dosbox -c "mount d /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/TIECD -t cdrom" -c "mount c /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc" -c "c:" -c "cd/TIECD" -c  "TIE.EXE" -c "exit"

mbrett

@edmaul69 OK, I made the ssh file and named it TIE, and placed it in the TIECD folder. The good news - I got TIE to do something. But the something was telling me I don't have the VEGA BIOS and whether I wanted to run install or emulate it. I tried both and both led to crash to ES.

But we're almost there!

edmaul69

@mbrett why are you putting your sh files in the games folders and not directly in the pc folder? Even though i own all of the floppies and the cd's it looks like i need to purchase this to understand what they changed.

mbrett

@edmaul69 Listen, I'm a complete noob at this. I don't know one thing about installing DOS games, because I never owned a computer powerful enough to run any of these games until I graduated college. So, please, a little patience is appreciated. I'm not applying for a job here. I can't figger out the command line to grant TIECD.ssh 777 permission. I type cd /retropie/roms/pc/TIECD & Raspbian tells me directory or file not found. I'll try with TIECD.ssh (I figger that's the name it should be called) in PC folder.

mbrett

@edmaul69 OK, so I figured out how to grant TIECD.ssh 777 permission. I rebooted. And it still asked the same question about VEGA BIOS.

I still think we're close, though.

edmaul69

@mbrett it is a .sh file not .ssh. No worries, i am more than patient enough to help you.

edmaul69

@mbrett read my last post. Also in the .sh file remove the

-c "exit"

Doing that if there are errors inside of dosbox it will tell you instead of exiting.

mbrett

@edmaul69 OK, so now I see a white TIECD below the grey TIECD folder in MSDOS in ES. So that's new. When I click on that, it goes to black screen for a bit then crashes back to ES, with and without -c "exit".

mbrett

@edmaul69 Is 0777 different than 777? I read your earlier post as a typo but, shit, 0777 is probably just a completely different permission I bet.

edmaul69

@mbrett did you name the file .sh or .ssh. It has to be .sh. And if you dont give permissions it will always kick back to emulationstation. That is your first issue you need to fix. Leave the -c "exit" out of the file until you get it working. Once you have permissions correct and named .sh it wont crash back to emulationstation. (As long as you remove the -c "exit")

edmaul69

@mbrett 0777 and 777 should be the same if you set permissions from commandline.

edmaul69

@mbrett73

sudo chmod 777 /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/TIECD.sh

edmaul69

@mbrett just edited last post for typo. Read my last few posts. Caps and lowercase are important when you set permissions

mbrett

@edmaul69 We're getting somewhere.
stub exec failed:
dos4gw.exe
No such file or directory

In good news, TIECD mounted as CD.

mbrett

@edmaul69 OK, so I just copied dos4gw.exe from my X-Wing directory and pasted it into TIECD. Bum ba ba bum, it worked! Now, the install...
I tried to do recommended, and it said I couldn't do it from HD. I'd have to run the install.exe.

I need a .sh for that, too, right?

edmaul69

@mbrett just temporarily edit the one you have for right now. Try this:

#!/bin/bash
/opt/retropie/emulators/dosbox/bin/dosbox -c "mount d /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/TIECD -t cdrom" -c "mount c /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc" -c "d:" -c  "TIE.EXE"

edmaul69

@mbrett i edited my last post. Try this. THIS IS HAVING IT BOOT FROM THE D DRIVE. If it doesnt work, change TIE.EXE to INSTALL.EXE