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DOSBox Pure is a new fork of DOSBox built for RetroArch/Libretro aiming for simplicity and ease of use.
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Mouting Windows 95 VHD as c:, mounting ISO as e: and booting windows #554

Open morlenxus opened 1 week ago

morlenxus commented 1 week ago

My problem is, that a imgmount iso doesn't appear in Windows, until i load the iso from retroarch menu and rebooted windows What i did is the following batch file:

REMOUNT C: L: IMGMOUNT C "Windows 95.vhd" -size 512,63,64,761 -t hdd

// doesn't work, error is "Image file not found": IMGMOUNT E "CNC1GGDI.iso" -t iso -ide 2m

// works, but cdrom device doesn't appear in windows: IMGMOUNT E "CNC1GGDI.iso" -t iso

BOOT "Windows 95.vhd"

I read somewhere that the device should be mounted with the ide parameter. But everytime i add that parameter, the file isn't found. Is there some other way to correctly mount and add the cd device so that windows recognize that? Thanks!

alexb3d commented 2 days ago

edit:

I'm a bit confused. I assume you're placing the w95 vhd image in the System folder and loading the iso from the Load menu. As the documentation says?

Anyway, use these image formats with caution, they may give errors, DOSBox is not strictly speaking a virtual machine and it supports many tricks.

morlenxus commented 1 day ago

The point is, i would like to have an autostart entry in Retroarch. When i point to the vhd Image, Windows starts but the game ISO isn't mounted. When mounting the ISO from retroarch menu i need to restart Windows 95 (virtually) to have it detect the cdrom device with the ISO. In the end i would like to run CnC 95 Gold with a menu entry. :)

emxd commented 16 hours ago

Can't you use an .m3u8 file with the .iso entry in there? Then, you can add the .m3u8 into favorites. Of course this way, you wouldn't use the .conf file.

Also I'm not sure if a CD loaded via the legacy .conf file can be seen in the IDE CD-ROM inside Win9x. It used to be that you had to boot through the "graphical" dosbox-pure UI with the CD premounted, *not* through the legacy .conf file. The -ide parameter was in dosbox-x, I don't think it exists in dosbox-pure.