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Shadow Stranger · 09-05-2008, 02:18 AM

From the Readme:
Q: I've got a Z instead of a C at the prompt.
A: You have to make your directories available as drives in DOSBox by using
the "mount" command. For example, in Windows "mount C D:\GAMES" will give
you a C drive in DOSBox which points to your Windows D:\GAMES directory.
In Linux, "mount c /home/username" will give you a C drive in DOSBox
which points to /home/username in Linux.
To change to the drive mounted like above, type "C:". If everything went
fine, DOSBox will display the prompt "C:\>".

(My explanation)
Idea is to create a folder which is set aside for old games. Then you get the DosBox running and you mount this folder as a virtual drive. Thus in the example below you take the folder C:\Prophet and call it your virtual C drive, then you take the Y: drive and make it your virtual D drive and finally you switch to the new drive by typing C:

MOUNT C C:\PROPHET
MOUNT D Y:\ -t cdrom
C:

You can add these instructions to the end of the dosbox.conf file so they will run automatically every time the DosBox program starts.

09-05-2008, 02:18 AM	#4
Shadow Stranger Avatar Join Date: December 9, 2007 Posts: 594	Re: Playing Old Windows Games From the Readme: Q: I've got a Z instead of a C at the prompt. A: You have to make your directories available as drives in DOSBox by using the "mount" command. For example, in Windows "mount C D:\GAMES" will give you a C drive in DOSBox which points to your Windows D:\GAMES directory. In Linux, "mount c /home/username" will give you a C drive in DOSBox which points to /home/username in Linux. To change to the drive mounted like above, type "C:". If everything went fine, DOSBox will display the prompt "C:\>". (My explanation) Idea is to create a folder which is set aside for old games. Then you get the DosBox running and you mount this folder as a virtual drive. Thus in the example below you take the folder C:\Prophet and call it your virtual C drive, then you take the Y: drive and make it your virtual D drive and finally you switch to the new drive by typing C: MOUNT C C:\PROPHET MOUNT D Y:\ -t cdrom C: You can add these instructions to the end of the dosbox.conf file so they will run automatically every time the DosBox program starts.