I'm trying to install The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall with DOSbox and I follow the Bethesda PDF instructions up to the point where it says to type in 'DAG213' on the prompt, however when I do this, it says 'illegal command' and I haven't been able to proceed.

Creating a dos folder

Before you do anything with DOSBox you should set up a folder to act as your c: drive. Its not necessary but it will make your life about 1000 times easier. Its best to make it in your home folder and name it something simple. Mine is called dos. It doesn't really matter what you call it, just avoid spaces and anything really lengthy. Note that this is completely separate from your DOSBox installation. Its just a place to keep your shit.

Extracting Daggerfall

Now that you have your dos folder set up you need to put things in it. You're going to want to move the Daggerfall zip you downloaded previously to your dos folder. Once you've got that done, right click the zip file and choose 'Extract here'. This should take a few seconds and once completed you should have three new files in your dos folder: DAGGER, DFCD, and a pdf.

Setting up your virtual C: drive

You can skip this if you want but it will save you a lot of typing later on. Before we move into DOSBox we want to edit the config so it automatically sets our dos folder as the C: drive. If you don't want to have to mount the Daggerfall CD every time you play it, you can also set it to mount automatically. To do this, go to your C: drive, Program Files, and look for DOSBox-[version number]. Open up the file DOSBox Options.bat. It should open a notepad window with the config file in it. Scroll to the bottom of the page and you should find a section called 'autoexec'. Below this we can add our commands to be used every time DOSBox starts.

How To Install Daggerfall On Dosbox

Type the following below 'autoexec':

mount c C:UsersYour Usernamedos -freesize 1000

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This will mount your dos folder as the c: drive with 1000mb of free space every time DOSBox starts.

If you want to mount the Daggerfall cd as well type the following below the previous command:

mount d C:UsersYour UsernamedosDFCD -t cdrom -label Daggerfall

Hey y'all,

After watching the Daggerfall Random PC Game video, I'm sure a lot of people will want to try out the game for themselves. Bethesda offer the game completely for free at http://www.elderscrolls.com/daggerfall/, but you probably already know that. It's easy enough to start up, but if you're running on a modern OS and your experience was anything like mine, you'll notice that the game is missing sound effects or music, skips cinematics, and generally runs a little sluggish. I'm sure somebody a little more patient and experienced than myself with DosBOX could tweak all the settings to get it running perfectly, but why bother?

Praise Akatosh, this site is amazing! They've packaged Daggerfall along with a few mods and unofficial user-made patches into a nice and tidy, Windows 7 ready setup file. For the purists, all that extra stuff is optional. The key here is just that it works flawlessly on Windows 7. The website's completely in French, but it's fairly easy to get around regardless of your knowledge of the language (and a simple Google translate will definitely get you by).

Here's the direct download if you're sold already and want to skip the page entirely:

How To Install Elder Scrolls Daggerfall Dosbox

Also, note that they did this for Arena as well if you want to check that out too!

How To Install Daggerfall Dosbox

Enjoy!