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Trying to install Dark Forces in Windows 2000...
2004-01-31, 4:43 AM #1
Help.
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2004-01-31, 5:10 AM #2
Nah.
(post an actual problem, maybe?)

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2004-01-31, 5:19 AM #3
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2004-01-31, 5:20 AM #4
When I go to run install.exe off of the CD I get an error that reads "An error occurred while trying to read the jedi.cfg file." So I figure I'll just copy all the files in the DARK folder to my HD. But now whenever I go to run dark.exe I get the error "ERROR:Unable to load LOCAL.MSG".
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2004-01-31, 6:03 AM #5
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">"ERROR:Unable to load LOCAL.MSG". </font>


You've obviously been MSG'D!!!

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2004-01-31, 6:17 AM #6
Dunno if this'll help.. but: click

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2004-01-31, 7:47 AM #7
Yea, I already checked out that article. Unfortunately their suggested solution didn't work.
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2004-01-31, 8:21 AM #8
Doesn't Win2k not play DOS based games?

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2004-01-31, 8:45 AM #9
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Cazor:
Doesn't Win2k not play DOS based games?

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Pfft, thats a bloody lie. I never had any trouble running dos games in Win2k.


I just tried to run Dark Forces under Wine and DosEMU under Linux, and I got the same thing your getting.

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2004-01-31, 11:33 AM #10
Any other ideas? Is there a way to run on just DOS in Windows 2000? I'm not talking a command prompt window, I'm talking being able to boot up to nothing but DOS.

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2004-01-31, 12:21 PM #11
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by JASRCC_Uber0010:
Any other ideas? Is there a way to run on just DOS in Windows 2000? I'm not talking a command prompt window, I'm talking being able to boot up to nothing but DOS.

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You can format your HDD and make a small dos partition (FAT16) and install dos on that... but Dark Forces works fine on Win2k on my PC. I just had to download a program to run the music.

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2004-01-31, 12:37 PM #12
How did you install it Matty?
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2004-01-31, 1:17 PM #13
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by JASRCC_Uber0010:
How did you install it Matty?</font>


He didnt. He installed it back in his DOS days, and merely copied over the binaries to his Win2k install. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/rolleyes.gif] [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

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2004-01-31, 1:24 PM #14
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by GBK:
He didnt. He installed it back in his DOS days, and merely copied over the binaries to his Win2k install. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/rolleyes.gif] [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

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Burn. Fast. In blue flames.

Anyway, I didn't have a problem. I stuck the CD in, and it installed easy as pie. Nothing to it, really?

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2004-01-31, 1:49 PM #15
To fix your problem, remove the "Read-only" attribute from the LOCAL.MSG file. You'll find the tahg by selecting "properties" when you right-click on the file. DF will now load, allowing you to work on getting sound.

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2004-01-31, 1:51 PM #16
Um, that's what I did, and I just ran the setup and game EXEs with VDMSound...

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