El-Fish is a fish tank "game", where you have virtual fish on your screen. The game has no goal, it's more like an interactive screen saver.
I got my version from a number of different sources, one was Vetusware, but since no copy I got worked, I tried a number different ones - however literally none of them worked in the end.
I'm trying to install El-Fish on an MS-DOS 6.22 VM (Virtualbox). The VM otherwise works fine, including Windows (for work groups) 3.11, networking, CD-ROM, sound, etc.
When running the install.exe
from whatever install media, it hangs, doesn't read any of the drives, and just sits there. When I remove the install media drive, it brings up an error message that install.prg
cannot be found (that file is in the root directory of the install media, right next to install.exe
).
I was wondering if this is a known issue, and whether there's a trick I could use to install the game/screensaver without going through the installation routine.
when running file elfish.pkd
on my Linux host it returns: elfish.pkd: Biosig/Heka Patchmaster
. So, some sort of archived directory structure, I assume?
The install.prg
file, is some sort of script file, similar to an NSIS install script, as far as I can tell. Since it's an ASCII text file, I've uploaded the text here (paste binned): https://0bin.net/paste/raBfhFIfDBj7l05W#HnJnyE9RnJ0q8aJhFqL-/C8B4HGx2thxY8LztFf4XTd
The goal here, is to get the software unpacked and installed, if I can just get the files to decompress, I can simply copy the files over to the target MS-DOS computer or VM, respectively.