kalirion: GOG uses DOXBox for running the game.
DOSBox is free.
If you have the CD-ROM,
you can also use DOSBox to run it.
waltc: Yes, and as the Gog version does not come from Gog on a CD, it was natural to assume she might've been using the original version of the game--which, yes, would run under DOSbox--but it won't run natively under Winx64 because Winx64 won't even run 16-bit Windows installers natively--have to VM to get those to work. DOSbox if anything is easier these days...
misato: No, I am not running it from a CD. I am trying to run the GOG version.
waltc: OK, as the game ships from Gog, it comes pre-installed to run under DOSbox, which is supplied with the game when you buy it. Navigate to your Windows start menu and look under Programs for Gog.com, and inside you'll find a folder for "Lands of Lore 1 and 2" and inside that you'll find the icons for running the Lol1 and the Lol2 executables. They should run for you as installed by the Gog installer--but be sure and run the programs from the Start menu and not from the directories in which you have installed the games--for some reason known only to Gog their DOSbox games will not run from the DOSbox configuration program icon in the same directory as the LOL executable itself--you have to go through the Start menu. I suggest this for you because it is the easiest way to run the game and it ought to work ROOB.
For some reason--I'd assumed you were originally trying to run the non-Gog initial version of the game from CD. Don't know where I got that idea from...;) Probably it was a late hour...Good luck!
Ok, as it happens, I gave up on Widows sometime after I posted this, after Windows 7 and all their version of Windows after XP were never backwards compatible. Microsoft also made sure that when XP users eventually have to get a new computer, and from what I have read, there are still a lot of XP users, they won't be able to use XP anymore.
This is the thanks Microsoft gives its customers who have gave Microsoft a monopoly in the computer industry. Although I have been hearing that Windows 8 is a lot more backwards compatible than Vista or 7 ever were.
Just got fed up with WIndows altogether. All email now also stays online. Im sorry, I don't like that. I like my email stored on MY hard drive, and not floating out there in cyberspace. The only program of Microsoft that ever worked, Outlook Express, and they get rid of it.
SO ... I just donated my PC to good will, and went out and got a Mac Pro. I am so glad I did. Geeze, the Mac OS/X operating system is so much more stable than Windows, and looking at my game list not long ago, realized that I also got the Mac version of Land of Lores from GOG, and it runs perfectly on the Mac, so Dosbox problem solved, but thanks for the advice. :)