Bioforge - MS-DOS

bkumanchik

@mitu https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/bioforge/

mitu

I found the demo, but it doesn't run - saying it needs a CD ROM. The installer crashes and it cannot be installed also.
As @quicksilver said, post a picture or some info about the directory structure.
If you got the game from GOG, then it should include a dosbox.conf file (or something that resembles that file name). You can try looking in the [autoexec] section from that file to see how Dosbox starts the game.
And lastly, if you remove the exit line from the .conf file I posted, you should be able to see the error thrown by the game - post it here.

bkumanchik

@mitu OK, thanks, I'll take a look at the conf file tonight.

bkumanchik

@mitu I found the .conf file.

[autoexec]
@echo off
mount C .
c:
cd BIOFORGE
cls
BIOFORGE.EXE
exit

simpleethat

Man, y'all are going to make me get back into all the PC games I used to play now too. I completely forgot about this game!

quicksilver

@bkumanchik what is the file path to the folder containing the game files?

Efriim

Here you are mate

[autoexec]
mount c /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc
imgmount d -t cdrom /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/bioforge/cd/Bioforge.iso
c:
cd bioforge
bioforge.exe
exit

Hopefully that will work for you, I couldn't figure out how to get up out of bed. The last time I played this game ~15 years ago; I figured it out but didn't get very far at all.

bkumanchik

@quicksilver /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc-data/BIOFORGE

bkumanchik

@Efriim There is no cd dir or bioforge.iso

mitu

@bkumanchik Have you tried the .conf file fragment from the game your have on your PI ? @quicksilver asked for a picture of the folder structure - just specifying the folder name it's not enough information.
Is the game working on your PC ?

bkumanchik

@mitu Yes, it works on my PC

bkumanchik

@mitu I set it up just like you said above in the pc-data folder

edmaul69

@bkumanchik so the setting @mitu posted wasnt going to work because all caps and lowercase are important in the conf files. Of course he had no way knowing not seeing your file structure. So do it like the gog conf with the same caps and lowercase but of course changing the config to point to your executable.

mitu

@bkumanchik I don't understand. I asked before:

If you got the game from GOG, then it should include a dosbox.conf file (or something that resembles that file name). You can try looking in the [autoexec] section from that file to see how Dosbox starts the game.

Then you said you found the file - so did you copy the part from the GOG .conf file to your game on the PI to test if it works ?

bkumanchik

@mitu should I copy the whole thing or just the autoexec section?

mitu

@bkumanchik Just the [autoexec] section.

bkumanchik

@mitu I'll try that, that's what I pasted above. I DID get Dungeun Keeper working ising the CD mount stuff from Erfriim.

edmaul69

@bkumanchik this is what you need to add:

[autoexec] 
@echo off 
mount c: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc-data/
cd BIOFORGE
BIOFORGE.EXE
exit

bkumanchik

@edmaul69 That finally did it! Thanks for all your help guys!

Efriim

@bkumanchik
Ahh yeah, the INSTALL.OPT file for this game, you can change where it would point to the cd to the install path instead and go cdless. It also needs to find the data in C:\BIOFORGE\ so mounting the pc-data as the C root is the way to do this one; and many others that install to HardDisk with install options.