I have been trying for 2 days now to run Old Time Baseball (1995) in DosBox WITHOUT using the cd-rom (I have the original cd-rom and burned an iso of it and am trying to use it because it is playing much smoother off the hard drive then off the cd). I am using D-Fend reloaded as a front end for DosBox. This is because just using DosBox I could not get it to work----this game has some "extreme need" to have the cd-rom in the drive when playing, so DosBox would give me the "insert cd now" line and I would put it in and it would play (and yes I tried to "trick" it into thinking a cd was in there using the mount d d:\ -t cdrom command but that did not work or I am doing something wrong).

That said, I gave up and decided to make an iso of my cd-rom to see if I could get the game to run without the cd in D-Fend. If I put the iso, which I have mounted as a drive on my PC directly into D-Fend, it sets it up and it works----setup works, and the game plays----with NO cd rom in the drive. However, after that initial setup upon exiting, D-Fend imports the settings and the executables for both playing the game and set up mode. When I try to go back into play the game, D-Fend wants me to put the bloody cd-rom in! Setup works ok without the cd rom in d-Fend, but NOPE, not the actual playing of the game. I tried to pick several other files (executables) to use to launch the program to no avail (the game launches using "OLDTIME" when I initially launch it, but it is a batch file, so D-Fend picks an executable file called "BB" by default but that file launches with an error that says a file is missing and cannot start) ANY file I try to pick instead--- either they want me to put the cd in to play again, or they say there is a "missing file" and it cannot launch.

I know there must be something simple that is amiss, or some crazy advanced protection scheme, because if I start over and delete the game out of D-Fend, and re-drag my iso back into it----it sets it up and runs again with NO cd-rom! But that really sucks to have to reinstall a game every single time you want to play, and sort of defeats the purpose of playing a whole season as I could never save.

Any thoughts/ideas? Really going nuts on this one! Thanks! 😢