Eisengeist Posted February 24, 2015 Posted February 24, 2015 I see the GruntMods Edition available but it seems a lot of downloading of resources I already have on CD. Is one of those packages good for installing and patching from the CD to a 64bit Win7 system?
FunkyFr3sh Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 I actually have all files needed in a zip file, was about to make a patch but I don't have the CD so i wasn't sure if the game is installable on a 64bit system or not. If it is not installable then my patch would need to take care of that too
Tore Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 The Dune 2k installer is 16-bit just like RA and C&C1's.
FunkyFr3sh Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 Really? wtf, I thought the game had no 16bit version at all
Eisengeist Posted February 26, 2015 Author Posted February 26, 2015 The installer on the CD wouldn't work on my system. What seems to be working is this: Downloaded the smallest Lite package of Gruntmods and installed it. Copied the music folder from CD to data subfolder of Dune2000 and copied movies folder from CD to Dune2000 folder. Directories look like this: Dune2000/data/music Dune2000/movies And in Dune2000.ini I set FirstTimePlay=Yes ForceNoCD=Yes Initially I was having trouble with saying this is a spawn, please install from CD or something and not letting me play campaign, then next when asking for the CD it wouldn't read it, even though it was in my drive. Then I had trouble of having movies but no music and then music and no movies until I arranged the folders the way I have it now. So now it seems to work alright with movies and music.
Nyerguds Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 Really? wtf, I thought the game had no 16bit version at all The game? That's completely irrelevant. It's just that the installer is a 16-bit Windows program. The Windows 3.11 generation.
gruntlord6 Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 Really? wtf, I thought the game had no 16bit version at all The game? That's completely irrelevant. It's just that the installer is a 16-bit Windows program. The Windows 3.11 generation. More then a little bit of a bump but I wanted to explain this a bit more. Installshield was the dominant installer followed closely by Wise, and it only supported 16 bit installations at the time (which windows dropped support for in exchange for 32 bit support in 64 bit systems). You can indeed copy the music etc from the CD to the "Lite" version of the GruntMods Edition, just make sure not to overwrite anything in the GruntMods directory.
SmileTheory Posted September 8, 2015 Posted September 8, 2015 So I wrote an installer for installing off CD. Well, some of it. blast.c/blast.h I got from the contrib folder in zlib, and are Copyright © 2003, 2012 Mark Adler. Installer is attached. Source code is at https://github.com/SmileTheory/d2kinst . D2KInst.zip 1
Blade Posted September 8, 2015 Posted September 8, 2015 That is pretty cool, where did you get documentation on the format of the archives InstallShield 3 used? I wrote an extractor for getting the files for C&C95 and Sole Survivor off their CD's a while back and had to crib a few of the fields from existing tools and figure out a few more fields for myself, but I didn't have a complete format I don't think and would like to have it documented somewhere.
Plokite_Wolf Posted September 9, 2015 Posted September 9, 2015 Someone said InstallShield 3? There's a rather simple solution that may work - make an ISO of a program or game that uses IS3 and replace its Setup.exe with the one in this thread. IS5 solutions are also there.
Blade Posted September 9, 2015 Posted September 9, 2015 True, but that doesn't help writing custom installers or cross platform tools to deal with InstallShield 3 archives.
SmileTheory Posted September 9, 2015 Posted September 9, 2015 where did you get documentation on the format of the archives InstallShield 3 used? I googled around a bit and found https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/blob/629fe95ebdfd669d04af5cdbdb900bf09e08e39e/OpenRA.FileFormats/Filesystem/InstallShieldPackage.cs . Reading that was enough to extract the files, though I figured out the modification date/time was in old DOS format, and that's documented at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724247%28v=vs.85%29.aspx .
Blade Posted September 10, 2015 Posted September 10, 2015 Pretty much what I did then. It looks like there was a GitHub page with a description of the format at some point, but it must've got taken down which is a shame. Looks like that is what the OpenRA implementation was based on.
Blake00 Posted January 2, 2023 Posted January 2, 2023 On 9/8/2015 at 9:35 PM, SmileTheory said: So I wrote an installer for installing off CD. Well, some of it. blast.c/blast.h I got from the contrib folder in zlib, and are Copyright © 2003, 2012 Mark Adler. Installer is attached. Source code is at https://github.com/SmileTheory/d2kinst . D2KInst.zip 56.9 kB · 3082 downloads Oh man, this just saved my butt, thanks heaps for making this. Still works!
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