Hello, New here, posting for first time..and wondering how I can get the following games to run..DosBox seems to be ineffective (or perhaps it's my limited abilities as former MAC person during the height of DOS's populatity) anyway I have the following Specs..

Dell Inspiron 570
AMD Athlon II X2 240 Processor
4 Gig Ram
Integrated Graphics ATI ® Radeon ® HD 4200
Windows 7 Home Premium

Games wishing to install and run..

Star Trek 25th Anniversary Enhanced CDROM 1992 Interplay
Star Trek Judgement Rites CDROM 1998 Interplay
Star Trek The Next Generation 'A Final Unity" CDROM 1995 Spectrum HoloByte

Each time I get the 'Installer incompatable with Window's 7 please contact publisher for 32 or 64 bit updated installer"..considering that these game's publisher's are now defunct, I can only got to the Gog community for assistance...


Thanks in advance..

What's wrong with DosBox? What kind of error are you getting?

If you don't know how to do CD-ROM support in DosBox, type in this command:
mount e d:\ -t cdrom
This assumes that your CD drive is the d:\ drive, and mounts that d:\ drive to a virtual CD drive in DosBox under e:\. Then you just switch to the e:\ drive in DosBox and start the install program. If your CD drive isn't located at d:\ then change that letter, of course.

To have that command execute automatically every time edit your DosBox config file and add that line to the very bottom (under [autoexec]).

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I would however add some explanations on how Dosbox works.

Basically, Dosbox creates a virtual dos environment. Hence it needs a virtual hard drive and a virtual CD-rom. These are added by the "mount" command ( see http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Basic_Setup_and_Installation_of_DosBox ).

To someone having never played with dos (or with linux), to edit the dosbox config might seem to be something weird. It is actualy quite simple. locate and launch the dosbox x.xx options.bat script, go to the end of the config file and make sure that under the autoexec header you have :

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
# You can put your MOUNT lines here.

mount c d:\dos
mount d e:\ -t cdrom

the conf file also provides lines for sound setup and for speed adjustment.

To make things "simpler", some users use frontends like Dfend reloaded. These may be helpful in managing different profiles for different games.

last point, not all games run perfectly under Dosbox. this site will help you determining whether a game should work or not under Dosbox?

I would also suggest trying right clicking on the games' startup shortcuts and setting compatibility mode to Windows XP.