DosBox mount a HDD folder as a CDROM ?

neoglow · 18 Dec 2013 at 21:25

I picked up an old classic yesterday off ebay - Star Wars X-Wing, the original version.

Ive got it working with DosBox but it wants to access the CD when launching/playing the game, I want to try and run it without the CD.

Is there any way of copying the contents of the CD to a folder on my HDD and then changing the DosBox config so it sees this folder as the CD ROM?

I did find some info on the net but it only refers to making a CD Image of the CD in a ISO, BIN or CUE format. Can I do it without having to make an image of the CD or is this the only way?

Witcher1979 · 18 Dec 2013 at 21:29

Make an iso and mount that:

http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/MOUNT

neoglow · 18 Dec 2013 at 21:36

Witcher1979 said:
Make an iso and mount that:

http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/MOUNT

Awesome thanks. Will give this a go.

dreigns · 20 Dec 2013 at 08:21

Yes u can mount a hard drive folder as a cdrom did it aload of times u can google it if I remember its the same as a cd just with a different path

Pestilence · 20 Dec 2013 at 09:00

Yep, it's perfectly possible. You just make a CD drive (D

and point to a folder on your HDD. It then takes the content of that folder as though it were the content of a CD in the drive.

Can't remember the exact commands right now, though!

joeyjojo · 20 Dec 2013 at 09:20

Witcher1979 said:
Make an iso and mount that:

http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/MOUNT

The flag to use is -t cdrom, as in:

MOUNT D C:\GAMES -t cdrom