DOSBox uses your underlying operating system's features for calling CDs, so if your OS supports doing something with a CD than usually so does DOSBox.

This is good news , keep up the good work Dosbox guys!

why not make ISOs out of all the CDs, and burn those on a DVD.
you can then use a virtual cdrom program like virtual deamon to emulate them as if they were real.

in other words: the "CDs" keep their own label, their own security, and you don't need to mount a folder in dosbox, but an emulated cdrom-drive.

I've never heard of this virtual daemon dark knight,so i'll give it a try, thx!
But this will work for windows games only i believe. There are some games that have many cd's and require DOS only, for example Ripper (6 cd's). (although DOSBOX doesn't run Ripper yet)

Atrus. Daemon Tools works just fine with ms-dos games too.

Virtual DAEMON == DAEMON Tools

I've been reading the "read me" file that comes with the ltest release of this superb program.
I am confused as how to set up the virtual CD drive that Daemon Tool, another awesome program, has created.
Will someone kindly trype out a mount of the "G" drive for me, so that I can post it ito the config file?
I've easily gotten the C and A drives in there, but the Daemon drive is giving me fits!
Thanks much! 😎

Uhhh, mount g g:\
heh

yep, that's pretty much it.

g being a cdrom-drive in this case...
mount g g:\ -t cdrom

I had some problems with BI2, which is copyprotected. Though the original-cd was in the drive the command
mount g g:\ -t cdrom
did not work (= the game did not work). Depending on the games you want to start you might need to connect the mounted directory with a "real" drive:
mount g g:\ -t cdrom -ioctl -usecd 0
This also works with virtual drives created by Daemon-Tools.

I have phantasmagoria (MSdos version) up and running on dosbox but
if I have to switch cd's the game won't respond.
Maybe this isn't the right place to ask but please help!
What can I do?

big thanks in advance to the guy that comments

How do you mount the CD-ROM?

Try reading this:

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php? … +find+its+CDROM

Perhaps it will help??

I got the same problem when installing Privateer from floppy disk. After replacing a disk with the next one the installation does not go on. It seems that it still "thinks" that the first disk is in the drive. Maybe it's the same for CD.
Unfortunatly I did not find a solution yet.

Try CTRL-F4 and/or the rescan command.

thank you minimax for pointing out that help page, it's great info.

I have copied all files from the Phantasmagoria cd's into seperate directory's. but I still dont really understand how I can mount those directory's to let dosbox think they are cd's.

How can I mount those directories so I don't have to switch cd's?

I am not sure - I have never used DOSBox with multi-CD games. It seems to me, that you have two options:

1. Use the real, physical CD's
1.1) When the game wants CD #2, eject CD #1.
1.2) Insert CD #2.
1.3) Wait for the drive to spin up and spin down (watch the lights).
1.4) Press CTRL-F4 (which should cause DOSBox to re-read the CD-info.
1.5) Tell the game (Phantasmagoria) that you have changed CD's.

2. Copy the CD's to your harddisk, in 2 separate directories
2.1) Mount the directories as 2 separate drives:

Z:\> mount D "C:\Some\Path\To\Dir\CD1" -t cdrom
Z:\> D:
D:\> dir

D:\> mount E "C:\Some\Path\To\Dir\CD2" -t cdrom
D:\> E:
E:\> dir

2.2) When the game wants CD #2, tell it to look at E: instead of D:

Perhaps you can include more details (screenshots?) of how the game is asking for CD 2?

Edit: Fixed an error in the mount command. -type should be -t.

with this script the game runs:

mount c c:\
mount e c:\phan1\cd1 -type cdrom
c:
cd sierra
cd scarydos
phcd

but I have to mount more than one directory (because there are more cd's)
so I use this script:

mount c c:\
mount e c:\phan1\cd1 -type cdrom
mount d c:\phan1\cd2 -type cdrom
c:
cd sierra
cd scarydos
phcd

but dosbox won't mount to the letter "d".
how can I mount more than one directory?

first mount d then e

still wont work... seems like the letter "e" is the only letter i can mount
as cdrom drive. Or maybe I just can't mount more than one directory.