Silent Hunter 1 [ commanders edition ]

[BrassMonkey]

Hi and ✌
I know this is sh3, but i could not find a forum for Silent Hunter 1

How do you get dosbox to recognize D:\ drive dvd-cd-rom drive???
I got Silent Hunter [ Commanders edition ]
I am a little familiar with DOS from the past ''Aces of the Deep' ETC.

I think i can get this game to run, being Silent Service will run

Ms-Dos is 64 bit:Kaleun_Cheers::Kaleun_Wink::subsim:

i think i can get 32bit with DosBox.

C:\ is my main drive for files
D:\ is cd-rom drive

Anyone ??? thank

[propbeanie]

Ahh, but you just need to use the Classic thread... lol - Not easy to see though:

Classic SubSims (https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/forumdisplay.php?f=173)

What you'll need to do is copy the game files to your hard drive, as scott_c2911 did in this thread

SH1 is working! (https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?p=2203859#post2203859)

The original Silent Hunter game, just like AOTD, is just as good today as it was then, and for me, is well worth the effort to get it going. :salute:


Also, be sure and check-out the Legacy Downloads (https://www.subsim.com/subsim_files/patches2005.html#sh1) pages for anything Silent Hunter (1) that piques your interest. Some of the links are "dead", but give a shout via PM for any you cannot find. I do have most of those on my old Win98 machine...

[Randomizer]

There are certainly more elegant methods but here's what I have done:

Copy the contents of the SH1 CD into a new folder named D inside the root SH1 folder.

When starting the game, open Dosbox:
Type: mount c c:\ path to SH1 root directory <ENTER>
Type: mount d c:\path to SH1 root directory\D -t cdrom <ENTER> This should give a message that you now have limited CD ROM support.
Type: c: <ENTER> to change to the SH1 directory from the Dosbox Z drive.
Type: sh to start Silent Hunter

You can probably create a batch file to do all of this but I cannot be bothered and lack the skills anyway.

Good Hunting:

-C

[BrassMonkey]

There are certainly more elegant methods but here's what I have done:

Copy the contents of the SH1 CD into a new folder named D inside the root SH1 folder.

When starting the game, open Dosbox:
Type: mount c c:\ path to SH1 root directory <ENTER>
Type: mount d c:\path to SH1 root directory\D -t cdrom <ENTER> This should give a message that you now have limited CD ROM support.
Type: c: <ENTER> to change to the SH1 directory from the Dosbox Z drive.
Type: sh to start Silent Hunter

You can probably create a batch file to do all of this but I cannot be bothered and lack the skills anyway.

Good Hunting:

-C
THANK YOU!!!
you made it easy , well done thank you:Kaleun_Thumbs_Up::Kaleun_Cheers::Kaleun_Wink:: subsim::salute:

[Randomizer]

You're very welcome. This also works for other games which might require a CD to run properly in Dosbox.

-C