Exactly what do you type when you try to mount your hard drive?

what it says in the readme...mount c c:\programs... is there a problem with that? I tried without a subdirectory, too, but the dosbox doesn't accept that...

Try something like this:

1. Outside of DOSBox, create a directory that will hold all your DOSBox games,
   e.g. "C:\OldGames".
2. Beneath "C:\OldGames", create a directory for Wing Commander,
   e.g. "C:\OldGames\WingCmd".
3. Insert CD in drive.
4. Start DOSBox.
5. In DOSBox, mount up drive C and D.
   Z:>mount C "C:\OldGames\WingCmd"
   Z:>mount D "D:\" -t cdrom -ioctl
6. Install the game from D: to C:
   Z:>D:
   D:>WC -I (or install, setup, or whatever....)
7. Configure sound, ....
8. Start game.

sounds really good, I'll try that... thank you.

It still says that directory c doesn't exist...

I am now officially confused 😕 😕 😕 😕

what did you type in dosbox.
exactly ?

Try dragging a file or folder onto dosbox.exe.

This will automatically start dosbox with a default c: drive.

Why are you using double quotes from DOSBox prompt?
Besides directory names seems to be 8.3 compliant...

Type this under DOSBox prompt...

Z:>mount C C:\OldGames\WingCmd
Z:>mount D D:\ -t cdrom -ioctl
Z:>c:
C:>cd oldgames
C:\OLDGAMES>cd wingcmd
C:\OLDGAMES\WINGCMD>wing.exe (or whatever you use to start the game)

eL_PuSHeR wrote:

Why are you using double quotes from DOSBox prompt?

Because it is a good habit that may avoid problems in the future.

@Pusher: That's exactly what I did and it didn't help...
@DosFreak: I'll have another try with that. Which file or folder should I use, the Wing Commander .exe file?

MiniMax wrote:

eL_PuSHeR wrote:

Why are you using double quotes from DOSBox prompt?

Because it is a good habit that may avoid problems in the future.

I was guessing using double quotes was for Long Filename support which, as far as I know, isn't supported yet under DOSBox. Am I missing something?, I am confused.

drag and drop seems to have worked, thanks a lot!

eL_PuSHeR wrote:

I was guessing using double quotes was for Long Filename support which, as far as I know, isn't supported yet under DOSBox. Am I missing something?, I am confused.

You are confused. Or maybe I am? 😀

As far as I can tell, the mount accepts quotes, long file name, illegal (according to DOS) file names, etc, etc, and passes it to the host OS for parsing/processing. mount (and DOSBox) does not care. If the host OS accepts it and return some kind of file/directory handle to use as the virtual drive, DOSBox is happy 😀

Thank you for the clarification 😀

I've got another problem now, whenever I try to install the game I get the message "ems driver is not VCPI compliant". As I have absolutely no idea what that signifies, I can't even tell if this should be posted under "application specific problems", I simply don't know if the problem is with the game or with DosBox itself. I hope you'll help me anyway...

@Trekkie - find your dosbox.conf file (C:\Programs\DOSBox\dosbox.conf ??) and the line that says ems=true. Set it to false. Start DOSBox.

still the same...