I was digging through my old files (some are almost 20 years old!) and I found my original copy of TIE Fighter for DOS.
A quick download of the latest DOSBox (in this case, 0.72) and I was on my way. I opened DOSBox directly from the disk image, and didn't bother copying it over, yet.
I mounted the directory where TIE Fighter was (in this case, on my network server):
mount C "/Volumes/programs/PC/Tie Fighter/dostie/"
C:
setmuse
tie
Those were the only commands I needed to run, and it was up and working. ALT+Enter made it full screen, and CTRL+F10 releases the mouse.
The only problem I ran into was that while I had my copy of the game, I no longer had the manual, and couldn't get past the copy protection. A quick Google search for "The Patcher v6.5" solved those problems - it ran directly in DOSBox with the greatest of ease.
Next step will be to find a joystick and see how well I still play. I also fired up Sim City 2000 and DOOM, all from a copy of a disk that hasn't been accessed in eight years or so.
Note, I have an Intel Mac, and I'm not certain DOSBox would run the same on a PPC Mac.
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i'm new to the DOSBox field, but a veteran of the tie fighter game. one of my favorites. i attempted following your instructions with a tie95.iso that i have on my hard drive, on a macbook pro running 10.6. DOSBox seems to run fine, but i can't seem to mount tie fighter correctly. what path would i need to supply DOSBox in order for it to recognize the .iso file?
I'd mount the ISO, and then copy the contents to a folder, and mount that folder in DOSBox, such as:
mount C "~/dostie/"
If you put it in a folder called dostie in your home directory.
ok. some success. i put the TIE95 drive in a folder called dostie, and successfully mounted it in DOSBox. i'm a little confused by the setmuse bit though, i tried that to no receive a "illegal command: setmuse"
setmuse is a command in the TIE directory (or should be). But I'm not sure TIE95 was a DOS program. Was it made for windows?
hmm. i remember having to run it in DOS mode when i originally played it, but that was a while back as you know. i assumed it would work either way.
i'm going to try a few more things. thanks for the help bombcar, even though on a 4 year old post. lol
For informational purposes, the size of my "tie" directory is 15MB, and contains files such as read.me, setmuse.exe, vga.pac, fix.bat, and bootdisk.exe
If it is a Windows version, it probably wouldn't have some of those. In that case, VirtualBox or VMWare Fusion may be your best bet.
Note that the C: part of the list is important; it changes the DOSBox current drive to "C:\"
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