Castle Paradox

SunsOfFlame · Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 139

Okay, the pridicament(sp?) is like this:

I double click on any OHR-related program.
The little box comes up.
The little box disapears.
Nothing after that.

This never happened before, and I think it has something to do with all this anti-virus crap, since that is the only change there's been on my comp.

The programs include:
Avast
Adaware
And I THINK one more...maybe not...cant find it anywhere...

Any info to be offered?
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Calehay · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 3:06 pm Post subject: Try DOS

Try running it in the command prompt. I had to this a lot.
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SunsOfFlame · Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 139

Thanks, man, but I don't really know how to use the command prompt...(It is Start Menu-Run..., right?
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Calehay · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 4:09 pm Post subject: XP?

No. Go to start and open up the big menu with all your programs. I believe it's Accesories. If you're using I think 98 or up, it's called Command Prompt. If you use 95, it's called MS-DOS Prompt.
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SunsOfFlame · Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 139

Ok...now theres a little blinking cursor. What do I type? The directory?
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Calehay · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 4:16 pm Post subject: What to type

Okay...
(Do not type things in parentheses, by this, I mean type in the thing that is necessary.)

First type: cd\(name of the directory)
Second, type: game(or the equivalent to game.exe. You don't need to put .exe on the end of it, it's understood.

And voila, you have your file being played in front of your eyes.

EDIT: Totally forgot, press enter after each instruction.
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Uncommon · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 4:19 pm Post subject:

cd [drive letter]:\[directory]

Like...
cd c:\hamster
cd d:\windows\ohr

After that, just type the program's name to run it, with or without the extension. Like, typing "custom" or "game.exe" will start either of those.

If need a directory listing, type:
dir /w

Calehay · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 4:22 pm Post subject: C:\

You don't need the directory after the cd\...
Or maybe my short term memory is failing me?

In any case, does that work? If so it's another to put in my memory when I forget how to change directories.
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Uncommon · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 4:26 pm Post subject:

Well, that's prolly the difference between cd\ and cd.

Moogle1 · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 5:07 pm Post subject:

I remember using DOS before Windows existed. Now you young'uns don't even know how to work DOS.

I'll be one of those near-obsolete COBOL coders before long.
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Aethereal · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 7:08 pm Post subject:

Speaking of which, I wonder whatever happened to those DOS navigation instructions I posted quite some time ago...I should probably compile them into an article.
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Artimus Bena · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 11:43 pm Post subject:

I have both avast and adaware running, and no problems: just to help you narrow it down.
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SunsOfFlame · Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 139

Hmm...I open up DOS prompt, type in the directory, works fine.

Then when I type in 'game' or 'custom' it doesnt do anything.

No error message or anything, it just goes on to the same thing again.

Any ideas? I miss the OHR.
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Artimus Bena · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:16 pm Post subject:

No error messages, that's weird. If you're really desperate, and this only happened just recently, you might use systemrestore. <--- Which can be undone, and it doesn't affect documents (not in XP at least)
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Artimus Bena · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:20 pm Post subject: