please elaborate on what is so special about these games that they need to be run from the floppy drive.

Its vintage, copy protected and i intend to sell it 😀

well if they need accces to certain stuff stored on the floppy (in hidden tracks and such)
then DOSBox can't handle that protection.
If you made diskimage out of it. DOSBox might be able to handle the protection.

(reason: lowlevel floppy acces can not be done simply in crossplatform way, while accesing a file (diskimage) can be done in a crossplatform way quite easely).

(reason: lowlevel floppy acces can not be done simply in crossplatform way, while accesing a file (diskimage) can be done in a crossplatform way quite easely)

hint hint - another reason it might be nice if DosBox would suport mounting several images to cycle through so you can install a multiple disk game 😀

that it does allready support.
only not for cdrom images.

Could be that it's only supported when using boot.
not sure.

Ok, i didnt quite got what you said there to the full extent of it (english is my 2nd), So ill try to explain better.

Its plain data, written with no encryption to what i can tell, It might need some install privileges but thats uncertain.. It allso may require that some data to be needed to be written to the floppy itself (after it has been opened). Basicly my main worry is weather the dosbox will detect and work 100% with the usb floppy drive (lap tops)

thanks again.

if it works under DOSBox on your own pc in a floppy drive.
then it will work on an usb floppy drive as well.

yeah, Dosbox doesn'T care what drive you mount as floppy. Try it, it probably works fine.

Qbix: the boot command works with different images, imgmount does not (as far as I can tell).

Did old PC's really have USB floppy drives?!?

Depends on how you classify "old".
IIRC, Windows 95b supported USB but I don't think there were any USB floppy drives around then.

I think I picked up a USB floppy drive to play around with back in 2001?