Index ⇒ Games Support ⇒ Grackon's Curse (no CD in CD drive error)

[Ggoran]

Persistently playing "ancient games" I experience one frustration after another,
and in this case I can't start the game because CD is not recognized by any system,or
any emulator,and any drive letter ?! Even with daemon tools inside Win98 still its not
recognized ?! (for the first time I experience that nothing i can do to "force" game to
recognize CD drive).(I tryied MAC emulator to run game,but simply i'm too dull to
figure out how it runs even with tutorials).

EMULATORS : Dosbox-x,PCEM,Vmware workstation
SYSTEMS : Win3.1 ...Win95...Win98
DRIVE LETTER d: e: and whatever :
SOURCE : "My abandoware -RIP" ,and Legends ISO

This is the error from "Director Player 4.0" :
"The CD is not in the CD ROM drive"

Please help!

Eighter with solution or perhaps some MAGICAL link with (already configured) Basilisk II or Sheepshaver.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

[Terje_P]

Have you tried it in XP?

I tried it with otdvm, but couldnt get past a quicktime error.

[Ggoran]

Otdvm is a great utility that I didn't even know existed (thanks for this new and valuable discovery!)
With it i succeeded to install the game in Win7 and 10 (quicktime also),but with the same "No cd" error
after i tryied to start.

Otdvm don't work in XP,but i also managed to install the game,and quicktime using compatibility mode in both
cases,but yet....guess what error occured when i tried to start the game

Anyway I'm beginning to suspect that either the image is flawed or that the game requires some hacking\tweaking to run,
but this second option is more logical.In dos i remember "Fake CD" utility,but for Windows i never find similar.

Thanks for your effort,and for OTDVM !!!

[hfric]

[Ggoran]

Gee man !!! Am i lucky or what ?!

This is what i call REAL manually tweaking,and probably permanent solution for
all future similar shts (and I am sure there will be a lot more of them).I'll save this excellent
config in dir "PERMANENT SOLUTIONS" (along with few more dos tweakings and infos i got
from you).Not even to mention how grateful I am to you for uploading "lazy mode" for all of us
"dos scientists"

Thanks a lot for all these truly awesome things!

[Ggoran]

And today i finished this "bull-hit" in 2-3 hours,but with step by step walkthrough (game really
don't deserve more time...yet it was interesting to watch how something can be sooo shamefully bad)...
or to say : one "dis-game" less to solve,so it was worth it!

Your emulation works perfectly from the start to the near end when it was "quick time-boss fight"
But when i re-install quicktime everything finished smooth,and Grackon was dead as a doo doo (even he
looks like one)

Thanks again for this great help to overpass this obstacle!

[Terje_P]

Crack for it:
https://www.old-games.ru/forum/threads/ ... st-1796709

Appreciate if the poster above would be willing to test it, a bit pointless now but still..

[hfric]

[Terje_P]

[Ggoran]

[hfric]