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Help with Nascar2 and Win95

Jeff Georg

Help with Nascar2 and Win95

by Jeff Georg » Thu, 29 Jan 1998 04:00:00



I wish I could run the game in DOS. After a hard disk crash, I had to
reinstall everything, including the operating system, and now when I exit
to DOS mode, my CD drivers aren't loaded and I don't know how to make them
load again (I must be having a brain lapse or getting to used to Win95). I
like running in DOS mode better but now I'm stuck in Win95. :(

John Goodha

Help with Nascar2 and Win95

by John Goodha » Thu, 29 Jan 1998 04:00:00

Why do you need your cd drivers for N2.  Just go to the nascr2 dir and
type nascar2.  That way you don't need the cd to play.

Nosfera

Help with Nascar2 and Win95

by Nosfera » Thu, 29 Jan 1998 04:00:00



>Why do you need your cd drivers for N2.  Just go to the nascr2 dir and
>type nascar2.  That way you don't need the cd to play.

If he did a full install. Looks like he needs to do some reading on
how to set up a dos shortcut. On the win95 cdrom there is a directory
containing an online version of The Windows95 Resource Guide.If he
opens that and searches for shortcuts it should come up and explain in
detail how to do it. There's many ways to get dos up and running under
win95, but a simple way is to go to the Dosstart.bat in the windows
directory and just put your cdrom and mouse refernce lines in there
then simply restart in dos mode.
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Nos


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Trip

Help with Nascar2 and Win95

by Trip » Thu, 29 Jan 1998 04:00:00




> >Why do you need your cd drivers for N2.  Just go to the nascr2 dir and
> >type nascar2.  That way you don't need the cd to play.

> If he did a full install. Looks like he needs to do some reading on
> how to set up a dos shortcut. On the win95 cdrom there is a directory
> containing an online version of The Windows95 Resource Guide.If he
> opens that and searches for shortcuts it should come up and explain in
> detail how to do it. There's many ways to get dos up and running under
> win95, but a simple way is to go to the Dosstart.bat in the windows
> directory and just put your cdrom and mouse refernce lines in there
> then simply restart in dos mode.

I don't know if this will work for all CDROM's out there, but it has for
three that I've owned... just run the install from the driver floppy
that came with the CDROM, and it'll put the drivers on your C: drive.
Some installers will add a line to your Config.sys and autoexec.bat,
others will just report the lines to you and want you to add them.

In either event, the one for the Config.sys is fine and should be added.
That's the low level device driver, and it won't affect Win95, but it
will be there ready and waiting for DOS to use it.

The line for the autoexec.bat (it's the line that references "mscdex")
is a different matter. That one should be placed in the "dosstart.bat"
file in the Windows directory. That way it won't load until you quit to
DOS from Win95. If the CDROM install places this line in autoexec.bat,
just cut it from there and paste it into dosstart.bat.

Trips


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