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First post, by Harry Potter

Posted on 2011-08-10, 12:55

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Recently, I've been working alot on compressing files on my computer, mainly using WinMount, which you can probably find at freewarefiles.com. However, when I try to mount a compressed archive file, DOSBox stops working, whether it's accessing the drive or not. The symptom is that it starts up with the banner then exits. When I use the -noconsole switch, stdout.txt displays two lines of code which don't reveal an error message. I really want to compress these DOS games and am disappointed that I can't do so. I have UPX to compress executables. How else can I compress the games until--and if--the bug gets fixed?

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Reply 1 of 8, by Zorbid

Posted on 2011-08-10, 14:07

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If your partition is partitioned in NTFS, you can use NTFS compression.

Right click on the folder -> properties. In the "General" tab, click the "advanced" button and enable compression. When clicking "Ok" to close the main properties window, you'll be prompted to apply the changes recursively. Opt in.

Done 😀.

The data is compressed, yet the folder works as a normal one.

Reply 2 of 8, by wd

Posted on 2011-08-10, 14:48

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How else can I compress the games until--and if--the bug gets fixed?

What bug? Since dosbox works fine with non-compressed mounts, this is certainly not a dosbox bug.

Reply 3 of 8, by Harry Potter

Posted on 2011-08-10, 15:31

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NTFS compression can be used to compress folders and files, but I find other techniques beter. That's why I tried to use WinMount. As for calling it a bug, I still call it a bug and would at least like DOSBox to support compression. BTW: how do I use DOS disk images?

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Reply 4 of 8, by Serious Callers Only

Posted on 2011-08-10, 15:32

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It's a winmount bug, you can't expect devs to support any random hack that changes OS internals.

Reply 5 of 8, by rcblanke

Posted on 2011-08-10, 15:42

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Could it be that WinMount does not allow writing to the virtual disk?

You may want to try out one of the special DOSBox builds supporting PhysFS (YKHWong's or Gulikoza's) which can mount (7)zip files directly.

Reply 6 of 8, by wd

Posted on 2011-08-10, 16:28

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I still call it a bug and would at least like DOSBox to support compression.

Feel free to like that, but post the bug report to the WinMount guys and not here.

Reply 7 of 8, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2011-08-10, 18:22

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Wait a while till you come down from your compression trip.

1+1=10

Reply 8 of 8, by wd

Posted on 2011-08-10, 18:23

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hehe

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