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Posted: **Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:50 am**

is there a way to play pitfall the mayan adventure on a486 core?

Posted: **Tue Feb 02, 2021 1:54 am**

pbsk8 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:50 am is there a way to play pitfall the mayan adventure on a486 core?

I believe that was an early Win95 game, not part of exoDOS, so install Win95 with drivers and install using CD image/folder.

Posted: **Tue Feb 02, 2021 2:05 am**

Added Warlords 2 Deluxe to the pack and ran it using EMM386, ran a few turns without issues.
run install and set sound = Sound Blaster 16/music = Sound Blaster
cmdline: war2 -ns

Posted: **Tue Feb 02, 2021 10:14 am**

Krieger wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 1:54 am
pbsk8 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:50 am is there a way to play pitfall the mayan adventure on a486 core?
I believe that was an early Win95 game, not part of exoDOS, so install Win95 with drivers and install using CD image/folder.

I had no idea it was possible to install win95 on mister.

I will try to look for a tutorial for a setup

Posted: **Sun Feb 07, 2021 9:13 am**

Hello everyone, I just registered to ask my question and wanna start off with a huge thank you for the awesome work everbody put into this collection.

I downloaded the AO486 exoDOS Top 300 collection. The files are located in /media/usb0 (a 500gb thumbdrive). I downloaded the update script, adjusted and ran it, and I am now on version 0.7.2.

Most games do run fine, but I found that many of the CD games tell me that "CD is required to play the game" while the image is correctly mounted in F:\.
This occurs on Warcraft 2, The Settlers 2, Theme Hospital and a few others. I checked the war2.ini files, but since I am on version 0.7.2 the update script already fixed the configs. The error still occurs.

I have read through the pages in this thread and partially watched flynnbit's massive video, but could not find any solutions to this problem.

I would appreciate any input. Thank you in advance!

Posted: **Sun Feb 07, 2021 2:05 pm**

7.4 is out, can you update and try one more time. I can't remember when I fixed those. And also, do other CD games work okay?

Posted: **Sun Feb 07, 2021 3:23 pm**

flynnsbit wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 2:05 pm 7.4 is out, can you update and try one more time. I can't remember when I fixed those. And also, do other CD games work okay?

That's cool! I have missed this update. Thanks flynnsbit!

Posted: **Sun Feb 07, 2021 3:28 pm**

flynnsbit wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 2:05 pm 7.4 is out, can you update and try one more time. I can't remember when I fixed those. And also, do other CD games work okay?

Thank you for your reply!
I ran the update script and the problem persisted. I also realized, that no other CD games launched. They all gave me the error "Disc required to play the game", which is really strange. I ran descent and Albion just yesterday.

In case I corrupted any files on my thumb drive, I will set it up freshly and post if I continue to have trouble if that's okay.

//Edit:
I am glad to report, that reformatting my drive, then copying the files over again and running the update script resolved the issue. I am having a blast with the collection! Thank you so much for the time and effort put into this!

Posted: **Sun Feb 07, 2021 4:28 pm**

Ooo this is an awesome starting point, i got dos 6.22 installed and made some shareware images of duke 3d / doom to install but couldnt get NHL95 to work.

Maybe Ill give this a shot as it has more boot options than I have and probably lots of little tweaks

Is it easy to add games to the top 300 list? I have the ExoDOS sets and I have the cd image of NHL95 on the CD card. Hopefully I can get things to work!

Thanks!

Posted: **Sun Feb 07, 2021 8:59 pm**

I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or I misunderstood, but trying out both Ultima 4 and 5 and picking the upgraded mode option with sound blaster audio still leads to no music in either game. The games originally didn't have any music on PC, but the upgrade patch is supposed to add it.

Posted: **Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:34 pm**

flynnsbit wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 2:05 pm 7.4 is out, can you update and try one more time. I can't remember when I fixed those. And also, do other CD games work okay?

@flynnsbit,

I have just run the script to update to 0.7.4. Unfortunately this time I didn't get the usual final message "Successfully updated to..". In fact I have got several checkdir and read only error messages as per the attached log.

When you get a chance, would you please look at it?

Thanks a lot!

Posted: **Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:29 pm**

Alkadian wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:34 pm
flynnsbit wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 2:05 pm 7.4 is out, can you update and try one more time. I can't remember when I fixed those. And also, do other CD games work okay?
@flynnsbit,

I have just run the script to update to 0.7.4. Unfortunately this time I didn't get the usual final message "Successfully updated to..". In fact I have got several checkdir and read only error messages as per the attached log.

When you get a chance, would you please look at it?

Thanks a lot!

Where are your VHDs located? On a CIFS share? You can clean up and try again, follow this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx4D0Cq ... e=youtu.be

Posted: **Mon Feb 08, 2021 9:47 pm**

flynnsbit wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:29 pm
Where are your VHDs located? On a CIFS share? You can clean up and try again, follow this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx4D0Cq ... e=youtu.be

Many thanks for getting back to me.

The VHD's are located on a usb drive.

I have removed the folder dos_games, as per your video, and I have run the script again bu to no avail.
However, I have noticed something wrong with the permissions. I believe it should be rw and not ro. But I am not sure..

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/dev/loop1p2 on /tmp/dos_games/E type vfat (ro,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)

Thanks!

Posted: **Mon Feb 08, 2021 11:18 pm**

Alkadian wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 9:47 pm
flynnsbit wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:29 pm
Where are your VHDs located? On a CIFS share? You can clean up and try again, follow this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx4D0Cq ... e=youtu.be
Many thanks for getting back to me.

The VHD's are located on a usb drive.

I have removed the folder dos_games, as per your video, and I have run the script again bu to no avail.
However, I have noticed something wrong with the permissions. I believe it should be rw and not ro. But I am not sure..
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/dev/loop1p2 on /tmp/dos_games/E type vfat (ro,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
Thanks!

Run the latest update script, I added a clean up section and also the updates for C will now mount. https://github.com/flynnsbit/Top300_upd ... in/_mister

Posted: **Tue Feb 09, 2021 9:57 am**

flynnsbit wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 11:18 pm
Run the latest update script, I added a clean up section and also the updates for C will now mount. https://github.com/flynnsbit/Top300_upd ... in/_mister

Thanks again. I have run the latest update script but exactly after extracting/inflating the same game relentle I start getting the usual error messages like:

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checkdir error:  cannot create /tmp/dos_games/E/games/RELENTLE/lba/ULTRASND
                 Input/output error

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error:  cannot delete old /tmp/dos_games/E/games/SCORCHEA/1_Start.bat
        Read-only file system

At some point I thought it was that I had a full SD card but the command df -h confirmed that I still have 55% of free disk space. No idea what it is going on. It is so odd as the script worked perfectly fine in the past and I haven't changed any files/folders permissions since then.

Please advise! Thanks a lot!

Posted: **Tue Feb 09, 2021 3:39 pm**

It looks like we are running into this issue for those that are using CIFS shares. If the network blips at all it will switch the /dev/loop device --> VHD
to readonly mode. Also, just to verify, you can still mount the VHD on the mister, and you don't have it "mounted" somewhere else (windows). Do you have the option of copying the VHDs to a local USB stick/SD card/USB SSD/HDD drive and trying the update there? If not, Can you simply mount the VHDs on your windows box and manually extract the contents of the update.zip/c and update.zip/e to their corresponding vhds and test?

I think those that are trying this over the network are running into this edge case:
https://serverfault.com/questions/66056 ... donly-mode

Posted: **Tue Feb 09, 2021 4:48 pm**

flynnsbit wrote: ↑Tue Feb 09, 2021 3:39 pm It looks like we are running into this issue for those that are using CIFS shares. If the network blips at all it will switch the /dev/loop device --> VHD
to readonly mode. Also, just to verify, you can still mount the VHD on the mister, and you don't have it "mounted" somewhere else (windows). Do you have the option of copying the VHDs to a local USB stick/SD card/USB SSD/HDD drive and trying the update there? If not, Can you simply mount the VHDs on your windows box and manually extract the contents of the update.zip/c and update.zip/e to their corresponding vhds and test?

I think those that are trying this over the network are running into this edge case:
https://serverfault.com/questions/66056 ... donly-mode

Thanks again for getting back to me. Just to clarify the /games/AO486 folder is already on a USB stick. I will try to update the VHD's manually in the mean time and report back here.

Thanks!

Posted: **Tue Feb 09, 2021 6:14 pm**

Hmm, very strange. We are looking for some help with the update script and either a better BASH programmer or a conversion to python that might clean up some of these issues. Let me know if the manual update doesn't work.

Posted: **Wed Feb 10, 2021 3:54 am**

Alkadian wrote: ↑Tue Feb 09, 2021 4:48 pm
flynnsbit wrote: ↑Tue Feb 09, 2021 3:39 pm It looks like we are running into this issue for those that are using CIFS shares. If the network blips at all it will switch the /dev/loop device --> VHD
to readonly mode. Also, just to verify, you can still mount the VHD on the mister, and you don't have it "mounted" somewhere else (windows). Do you have the option of copying the VHDs to a local USB stick/SD card/USB SSD/HDD drive and trying the update there? If not, Can you simply mount the VHDs on your windows box and manually extract the contents of the update.zip/c and update.zip/e to their corresponding vhds and test?

I think those that are trying this over the network are running into this edge case:
https://serverfault.com/questions/66056 ... donly-mode
Thanks again for getting back to me. Just to clarify the /games/AO486 folder is already on a USB stick. I will try to update the VHD's manually in the mean time and report back here.

Thanks!

Okay, new update script that extracts first and then uses Rsync to update both the VHDs. See if that fixes your problem. You need to wget the new update.sh to your mister obviously before running it.
https://github.com/flynnsbit/Top300_upd ... in/_mister

Posted: **Wed Feb 10, 2021 11:25 am**

flynnsbit wrote: ↑Wed Feb 10, 2021 3:54 am Okay, new update script that extracts first and then uses Rsync to update both the VHDs. See if that fixes your problem. You need to wget the new update.sh to your mister obviously before running it.
https://github.com/flynnsbit/Top300_upd ... in/_mister

Thanks. I have just tried the new script. This is what I get:

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Cleaning up any previous failed updates, ignore any errors...

rm: cannot remove '/tmp/update.zip': No such file or directory
umount: /tmp/dos_vhds/E: no mount point specified.
losetup: : No such file or directory
umount: /tmp/dos_vhds/C: no mount point specified.
losetup: : No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/dos_vhds': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/dos_extract': No such file or directory

Hit any key within 5 seconds to continue...
/#

Thanks!

Posted: **Wed Feb 10, 2021 12:51 pm**

Alkadian wrote: ↑Wed Feb 10, 2021 11:25 am
flynnsbit wrote: ↑Wed Feb 10, 2021 3:54 am Okay, new update script that extracts first and then uses Rsync to update both the VHDs. See if that fixes your problem. You need to wget the new update.sh to your mister obviously before running it.
https://github.com/flynnsbit/Top300_upd ... in/_mister
Thanks. I have just tried the new script. This is what I get:
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Cleaning up any previous failed updates, ignore any errors...

rm: cannot remove '/tmp/update.zip': No such file or directory
umount: /tmp/dos_vhds/E: no mount point specified.
losetup: : No such file or directory
umount: /tmp/dos_vhds/C: no mount point specified.
losetup: : No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/dos_vhds': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/dos_extract': No such file or directory

Hit any key within 5 seconds to continue...
/# 
Thanks!

go ahead and Hit any key within 5 seconds to continue... and try it. I'll change the clean up section at the top where it doesn't do that

Posted: **Wed Feb 10, 2021 1:50 pm**

I did it, but nothing happened. I have just got back to the prompt.

Posted: **Wed Feb 10, 2021 1:51 pm**

Alkadian wrote: ↑Wed Feb 10, 2021 1:50 pm I did it, but nothing happened. I have just got back to the prompt.

New new version of the update script out there. make sure you wget the latest and then run it. Also, cold boot your mister before you do all of this.

Posted: **Wed Feb 10, 2021 2:02 pm**

Cool! I will try now! Thanks.

Posted: **Wed Feb 10, 2021 2:07 pm**

Success!!!
It worked like a charm and so quickly as well! It did everything within a few seconds.Whereas in the past it took way longer.
I have also double checked and both the VHD's got updated correctlty.
Thanks a lot!

Posted: **Wed Feb 10, 2021 2:15 pm**

Yup, I made a small change that does the unzip first and then copies to the vhds which seems to have speed things up considerably. Glad it worked for you.

Posted: **Fri Feb 12, 2021 12:02 am**

Update to 0.7.4 finished successfully, but I see hearts instead of exclamation marks and mouse and gemapad are not working. What did I do wrong?

Posted: **Fri Feb 12, 2021 9:02 am**

pbsk8 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:50 am is there a way to play pitfall the mayan adventure on a486 core?

Pitfall was a Win95 game (in fact the first win95 game I bought)
I dont think there ever was a dos version.
So to get it up and running you need a working win95 and a copy of the game.

Posted: **Fri Feb 12, 2021 9:45 am**

Well looks like I'm converting ISO to CHDS after work. Great job!

Posted: **Fri Feb 12, 2021 10:21 am**

werpu wrote: ↑Fri Feb 12, 2021 9:02 am
pbsk8 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:50 am is there a way to play pitfall the mayan adventure on a486 core?
Pitfall was a Win95 game (in fact the first win95 game I bought)
I dont think there ever was a dos version.
So to get it up and running you need a working win95 and a copy of the game.

I will look for a tutorial how to install win 95 on mister

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