Question about DOSbox

[wildWolverine]

I'm trying to use DOSbox to run an old game (X-Wing -- only the best simulator ever created ). Anyhow, I've figured out how to mount the directory that the info is in, and configured the game for sound (it seemed kind of jerky in the tests -- leading me to worry that the game may be jerky too...) Anyhow, when I try to run the actual game, it says "Can't find X-Wing CD!" Do I have to mount the CD drive in DOSBOX too? If so, how? The usage of the Mount command requires a directory, but I think I'd have to mount the whole cd...

If I finally get this to work, and it is in fact jerky and slow, is there anyway to improve the performance of DOSbox?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanx

ww

 

[IglooDame]

You're correct, you do have to mount the CD-ROM drive within DOS. Most often you can customize an autoexec.bat/config.sys for the DOS box, but without knowing what OS you're running it's tough to say.

 

[wildWolverine]

I'm running 98se on the computer i'm trying to get it run on. how can i simultaneously mount the directory on the hard drive (containing the installed files) and the cd-rom drive? the usage for the mount command is:

mount c c:\xwingcd

I'm not sure how to mount a whole drive, i.e.,

mount d d:\

doesn't work...

 

[Beam]

Strange, I could mount d d:\ (also a HD) and h h:\ (CD-ROM). That's with XP. Can you go to your CD-ROM from a standard 98 dosprompt?

 

[wildWolverine]

Ok. So I'm not sure what I was doing wrong, but now I can mount both the directory containing the game files on my hard drive and the d:\ (cdrom) drive. However, when I attempt to start the game from the mounted hard drive directory, it still says that it "Can't find X-Wing CD!", even though the cdrom drive is mounted. I can't start the game from the mounted cdrom drive either...

any ideas?

 

[Beam]

Just try some experiments like: type dir and see if it shows content. Try another CD and see what happens etc.

Worst case you will have to fiddle with mscdex.