I bought Pandora Directive today and I can't get it to run. When I double click on the shortcut, dosbox starts and then there is an error that says "No cd drive available" hit any key to exit.
I'm on vista.
Please help!
Thanks,

I had this problem, I fixed it by uninstalling the game, deleting the .conf file in the folder, and reinstalling.

It works! Thanks a lot. My cd-drive isn't D: it's F: that's why he couldn't detect it. Does "." mean auto-detect?
The game runs normally now but sometimes there's a weird chirping sound when a character speaks (like a 1 second noise at the end of a sentence), I can live with that but it would be great if there was a solution.

Glad to help you.
"." means the virtual cd-drive that DosBox "sees" is the game's directory.
Maybe someone from the staff who configured the dosboxtex4.conf file can explain why they set it to D:\

to get rid of the chirping sound, edit the dos box config file,
in vista click on properties & change security to user files tick allow & then open file in notepad.
[mixer]
# nosound -- Enable silent mode, sound is still emulated though.
# rate -- Mixer sample rate, setting any devices higher than this will
# probably lower their sound quality.
# blocksize -- Mixer block size, larger blocks might help sound stuttering
# but sound will also be more lagged.
# prebuffer -- How many milliseconds of data to keep on top of the blocksize.
nosound=false
rate=22050
blocksize=2048
prebuffer=240 (change this line to 240)

Wow you guys are so nice and helpful, thank you so much plumgas!
Does that trick work on any dosbox game? I always have problems with the sound when I'm playing old games.

can't answer that, give it a try, works with UAKM & Pandora
I had this sound problem with vista some people have it with xp

Hey, be glad you GOT a request for CD drive, I can't even get my PC to acknowledge the game is even there. I've spent literally DAYS downloading and searching and re-downloading, all for nothing. I have the CD version loaded in DOSbox, that, along with disc swapping is better than paying for the game AGAIN and not being able to play it.
SEEYA!

How to find dosboxtex4.conf so I can rewrite line about cd drive? I'm running Windows 7 and got the command prompt box open and even got the directory where the downloads are. I have a setup_pandora_directive.exe file. Is this where the dosboxtex4.conf is?
Thanks in advance.

in gog folder just past the conf file, just past the exam files

In order to run this game in dosbox, do you need to know the name of the executable file required to run the game? What is the name of the executable file?
Dosbox instructions that I got say to mount c. My cdrom is F. I am confused.

With the gog version you only have to install the game and after that use the shortcut that gog's installer places on your desktop to run the game.

I try to run it from the desktop, but get the message no cdrom available. I went into the dosboxtex4.config file to edit (using notepad) from "mount D" to "mount F", but I couldn't save the changes. It continues to revert back to mount D. Is that the problem? Thanks

Yes, probably. Are you on Vista or Win7 ?
If you are, copy the config file to your desktop, edit it there and save it. Then copy the edited file from your desktop back to the game folder thus replacing the original.