Running Fragile Allegiance

[kimimi]

I've just found out this is the sequel to an all-time Amiga favourite of mine, K240. However, as I was an Amiga gamer for far too long I have no idea how to use DOS, and my attempts to get this working so far have failed miserably

I've been using the DOG frontend and have got awesome games like Dune 2 working fine, but this one stumps me, in particular this line on Abandonia -

"Then just run the game with fragile.bat from the C drive (of course make sure to first load the game folder as hard drive)."

Of course. Wait, what? How do I go about setting this up through DOG?

Any help would be really appreciated, although you probably won't get a thank you because I'll be too busy mining asteroids

[roushimsx]

Never used DOG, so I don't really know....

...but to run it normally you can mount the C: drive to be your games directory. At the bottom of the dosbox.conf file (where it says autoexec) in your dosbox directory, you can add the line "mount c C:\games" without the quotes. c being the drive you want to mount the directory as as c:\games presumably being the location on your hdd that you want dosbox to think is c

When you fireup dosbox, you just change directory into the fragile alliance dir (if it's under a directory FRAGILE then just type "CD FRAGILE") and then run fragile.bat (by, you know, typing it in).

An alternate method would be to just drag and drop the FRAGILE directory onto dosbox.exe, where it'd automount that directory as C:. Then you just need to type fragile.bat and you'd be playing the game.

Downside is that you'd have to do a little tweaking to your dosbox.conf to get it displaying properly and everything (not that hard, i promise!) and the upside is that you'd only have to do it once (well, once every time you update dosbox, which probably isn't very often).

I really do need to try out DOG and see what it's all about

[kimimi]

Right, thanks for that! I'll give it a go in a bit