Discworld Dinosaur

CelticElf · 10th Mar 2007, 12:02 AM

I love the original "Discworld" PC game and want to share it with my kids, but I am having major problems finding a way to get it to run on WIN XP and have the sound work in it. I have tried VDM sound and something else that I can't remember the name of and they don't work (either that or I haven't got the correct settings and the websites I got them from don't help much). Is anybody able to help me ? It would be much appreciated.

jamotto · 10th Mar 2007, 10:21 AM

You might give dosbox a whirl if you have not already. doxbox link

Now as dosbox is a console app, you may want to grab a windows frontend for it to make it a little easier to use. you can find these on the website above by clicking the the downloads link. I use D-Fend, but most of the frontends they have, work just as well.

Oh and discworld is awesome!

CelticElf · 10th Mar 2007, 11:13 AM

I will give Dosbox and D-Fend a try and let you know if I have any luck... once I find my Discworld CD again !!

CelticElf · 10th Mar 2007, 11:46 AM

ok - found the cd, but now I am TOTALLY lost... I installed both dosbox and d-Fend. Told D-Fend where to find dosbox, but now I am having trouble finding out how to tell d-fend how to run Discworld. What is the GAME EXE (and where do I find it) and what is the SETUP EXE ? It has been so long, in the main DIR there is a DISCWLD DIR, a DISC.BAT and a DWU.exe, in the DISCWLD DIR there is a DWB.exe and a DWU.exe..... (do I let the game install itself or do I let dosbox/d-fend do that for me ?) Yikes !

jamotto · 10th Mar 2007, 11:46 AM

*edit*

didn't see your post.

game.exe would be the file you use the start the game.

setup.exe is the file that installs the game.

if the game does not install normally (for dos games sound card detection is a problem) you would use the second option.

jamotto · 10th Mar 2007, 11:59 AM

If I remember correctly you in dos you would normally run the batch file (disc.bat) to start the game, if you open that in notepad you can read it and see which *.exe file it runs. I think it's DWU.exe in the main directory.

hyper_raider · 10th Mar 2007, 12:36 PM

Have you tried using DosBox?

CelticElf · 13th Mar 2007, 12:57 AM

It took me a while to play with the settings, but I finally got dosbox and d-fend to play discworld from the cd complete with all character voices and music ! Thank you so much !

parkj83 · 28th Mar 2007, 09:53 PM

Hi CelticElf

I have XP and am trying to get Discworld to run via Dosbox & D-Fend.

What were the settings you found that worked? I'm just going roundand round in circles!!

10th Mar 2007, 12:02 AM	#1 (permalink)
CelticElf Newbie Join Date: 17 Feb 2007 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 10 Reputation: 0 Rep Power: 0	Discworld Dinosaur I love the original "Discworld" PC game and want to share it with my kids, but I am having major problems finding a way to get it to run on WIN XP and have the sound work in it. I have tried VDM sound and something else that I can't remember the name of and they don't work (either that or I haven't got the correct settings and the websites I got them from don't help much). Is anybody able to help me ? It would be much appreciated.

10th Mar 2007, 11:46 AM	#5 (permalink)
jamotto I'm a regular Join Date: 3 Mar 2005 Posts: 464 Reputation: 142 Rep Power: 5	edit didn't see your post. game.exe would be the file you use the start the game. setup.exe is the file that installs the game. if the game does not install normally (for dos games sound card detection is a problem) you would use the second option. Last edited by jamotto : 10th Mar 2007 at 11:51 AM.

10th Mar 2007, 12:36 PM	#7 (permalink)
hyper_raider shutdown -h now Join Date: 15 Aug 2003 Location: in front of my pc Posts: 6,001 Reputation: 1078 Rep Power: 22	Have you tried using DosBox? __________________ "God does not play dice with the universe." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) http://edward-lim.blogspot.com

28th Mar 2007, 09:53 PM	#9 (permalink)
parkj83 Newbie Join Date: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 1 Reputation: 0 Rep Power: 0	Settings? Hi CelticElf I have XP and am trying to get Discworld to run via Dosbox & D-Fend. What were the settings you found that worked? I'm just going roundand round in circles!!

10th Mar 2007, 10:21 AM	#2 (permalink)
jamotto I'm a regular Join Date: 3 Mar 2005 Posts: 464 Reputation: 142 Rep Power: 5	You might give dosbox a whirl if you have not already. doxbox link Now as dosbox is a console app, you may want to grab a windows frontend for it to make it a little easier to use. you can find these on the website above by clicking the the downloads link. I use D-Fend, but most of the frontends they have, work just as well. Oh and discworld is awesome!

10th Mar 2007, 11:13 AM	#3 (permalink)
CelticElf Newbie Join Date: 17 Feb 2007 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 10 Reputation: 0 Rep Power: 0	I will give Dosbox and D-Fend a try and let you know if I have any luck... once I find my Discworld CD again !!

10th Mar 2007, 11:46 AM	#4 (permalink)
CelticElf Newbie Join Date: 17 Feb 2007 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 10 Reputation: 0 Rep Power: 0	ok - found the cd, but now I am TOTALLY lost... I installed both dosbox and d-Fend. Told D-Fend where to find dosbox, but now I am having trouble finding out how to tell d-fend how to run Discworld. What is the GAME EXE (and where do I find it) and what is the SETUP EXE ? It has been so long, in the main DIR there is a DISCWLD DIR, a DISC.BAT and a DWU.exe, in the DISCWLD DIR there is a DWB.exe and a DWU.exe..... (do I let the game install itself or do I let dosbox/d-fend do that for me ?) Yikes !

10th Mar 2007, 11:59 AM	#6 (permalink)
jamotto I'm a regular Join Date: 3 Mar 2005 Posts: 464 Reputation: 142 Rep Power: 5	If I remember correctly you in dos you would normally run the batch file (disc.bat) to start the game, if you open that in notepad you can read it and see which *.exe file it runs. I think it's DWU.exe in the main directory.

13th Mar 2007, 12:57 AM	#8 (permalink)
CelticElf Newbie Join Date: 17 Feb 2007 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 10 Reputation: 0 Rep Power: 0	It took me a while to play with the settings, but I finally got dosbox and d-fend to play discworld from the cd complete with all character voices and music ! Thank you so much !