QBIX - Holy Crap! I take it all back! I just ran the version of Dosbox that I got from the yesteryear page (DOSBox ECE r4112), and it ALLOWED ME TO WRITE AND READ FILES! I see that it is identified as the same version as the "other" dosbox, v 0.74, but this is the "community version" and does indeed …

Dosfreak: I used mount a c:/dosprogs/ to mount a folder and have it seen as the A drive in my DOS pgm, which I ran from that folder. My program is a multi-image slideshow editor created by "Audio Visual Laboratories" called "AVL ProCall", which ran on an 8088 PC with a "Genesis boardset" installed. …

Gene - yes I did mean to say that DosBox is ONLY for games. Oops. Qbix - I have "DOSBox0.74-win32-installer". Is there a better/faster/stronger version, that could possibly allow my pgm to read as well as write? I could not find anything different for windows on the yesteryear page. root42 - I'm a …

I have an '80s DOS program that can create and save small files, and also load them for use later. Within DOSBOX I am able to save a file to the mounted "A" drive (a folder on my c: drive). However, when I attempt use the pgm to load the file back in, I get a disk error. What could be the cause here …