User Guide

CAESAR II
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either figure these things out or consult the technician or
documentation for your CD drive to find the name and
syntax of this device driver) and may include more text on
the line. Copy the whole line down on a piece of paper,
including any other text that comes after the .SYS filename;
if possible, print the file out and underline the appropriate
text. Exit out of the EDIT utility (you can do this by
holding down the <alt> key and typing “f”, then when the
file menu drops down, type “x” or, if your mouse is working,
just click on “File” in the upper left hand corner, and then
“Exit” in the file menu).
Now open your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, by typing “EDIT
C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT<enter>”.
Find the line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file that contains the
following letters “MSCDEX”; Again there will probably be
more information on the line than just the program location
and name. Either write it down, letter for letter, or print it
out. Exit the editor and return to DOS.
You must copy your DOS mouse driver and, if necessary,
your VESA graphics driver to the boot disk (in drive A:);
these drivers might be found either on your hard drive or on
floppy disks that came with your system for the mouse and
video card respectively. The mouse driver may be called
MOUSE.COM, MOUSE.EXE or MOUSE.SYS or
something similar, and the VESA driver, may be called
VESA.COM or VESA.EXE or something similar. If you do
not know how to copy files, consult your DOS manual.
Change the current drive to drive A: by typing “A:
<enter>”. The prompt should now look like: “A:\>”. Open
your editor by typing “EDIT A:\CONFIG.SYS”. Type in
the following file ignoring the stuff between parentheses
(“(“ and “)”):
DEVICE=C:\CDSTUFF\MYCD.SYS /D:drivername
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