How do I get ROTT to install under winXP

[0marTheZealot]

I get runtime errors whenever I try to install it under WinXP.

Compabitility mode doesn't help:(

[jbailey]

Hello,
I'm assuming your trying to run the original installer, you can try going here:

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

and download the dos emulator, you can try mounting your
cd drive by the following command: (The drive latter is e.g.)

run dosbox and when the window opens up type:

mount c f: <- substitute your cdrom drive letter here

type in 'c:' - this is drive c under dosbox, not your real drive c

then try running the installer again.

Hope this helps!

jbailey

[0marTheZealot]

it's probably just my monkey eyesight but where exactly do I put the commands you told me?

[jbailey]

You put the commands in the window that pops up:

[0marTheZealot]

omg i got the wrong program lol

im sorry bout that!

[ryche]

I had an error while tryin to install it under winme and moslo helped fix that....

[Martin Howe]

You might not want want to use MoSlo or other shareware/paid-or programs (after all, you already paid for the game) or you might not trust a CPU-slowdown or similar utility.

Here is a manual install that worked for me, but you have to be au-fait with command-prompts and so forth. This worked for me and I have ROTT 1.2 full version as a 5-floppy-disk set. Of course many computers these days don't even HAVE a floppy drive, but that's another problem.

0) Pray to your favourite demon for a long and painful pox on whoever coded the Turbo-Pascal run-time "CRT" unit. That wont solve the problem, but it makes you feel better :p

1) Make a folder somewhere in the root directory of a disk. For example, create C:\ROTT12R. If you can't do this (for example, your system may be configured not to allow you access to the root directory of any drive) at least use a subfolder name that follows the old DOS 8.3 naming convention and is less than 64 characters long; using anywhere with spaces in the pathname is probably a no-no too!

2) Copy the ROTT12R*._[12345] files from your floppy disks into this folder.

3) At a command-prompt, CD into this folder; that is, Start|Run, cmd.exe, and when you get the Command Prompt screen, type into it CD/D C:\ROTT12R then press ENTER.

4) Use copy/b to create a single large file as follows:
copy/b ROTT12R._1+ROTT12R._2+ROTT12R._3+ROTT12R._4+ROTT12 R._5 ROTT12R.DAT

5) Extract bytes 337-7186880 (i.e., 337 to the end) of ROTT12R.DAT using a byte-level file copier; these file positions are 1-based, by the way. There are several freeware file cutters out there (I used PieceCopy (http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/freeware/2000/11/20/piececopy/), but writing one for the purpose in plain C wouldn't be difficult). The extracted file should be named ROTT12R.EXE; it is in fact a PKZIP SFX archive.

6) Create a subdirectory, say, ROTT and then CD into that subfolder.

7) Type ..\ROTT12R.EXE and press ENTER. This will extract the files into C:\ROTT12R\ROTT (or wherever you made it).

8) Close the command-prompt then make a zip file (compressed folder) of the ROTT subfolder. You now have the extracted files ready to put wherever you want.

The first 336 or so bytes of ROTT12R.DAT are a batch file that presumably is run by the INSTALL.EXE; however, it seems to be encrypted or encoded and is probably advertising junk anyway. It's been so long since I installed my copy of ROTT the old way (I haven't owned a sub-200MHz computer since 1998) that I just can't remember :)

Comments?

[Spartan_234]

I don't remember the "Runtime Error 200" message when I installed ROTT on newer computers. Or are you talking specifically about the floppy version? (I have the CD version of ROTT.)

[Martin Howe]

Yes, specifically about the floppy version - I have five 1.44MB 3.5inch HD disks that I bought in the mid-90s from a junk shop. They're the real thing, complete with manual and box; it was a lucky find, but as it turned out, I was too busy exploring thousands of levels of DOOM at the time and never got around to playing it :)

[Joe Siegler]

This all depends on what version of the installer we used at the time.

Run Time Error 200 can be gotten around by using Moslo. A lot less complicated than what's been posted above.

[zchri9]

use winrott its good and doenst have many bugs in it

[Brother Grabbag]

loved the ROTT games, but want to check something before i hunt down another copy. if i have WinXP, and CPU Killer trial version, should i be able to install it without problem? or would grabbing the suggested methods be my best bet?