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First post, by John Hughes

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Could someone provide the code, and if possible explanation, for how to load a game from the same folder that DosBox is in?

In this scenario, on my desktop is the DosBox folder. In this folder is the folder with the game in it. Let's call it 'GameFolder' for the example... now what would I type in order to open/load this game?

😀 Many thanks chaps!

John

Reply 1 of 9, by eL_PuSHeR

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Feeling too lazy to read the readme, mate? 😁

mount c "c:\gamefolder"
mount d d:\ -t cdrom -label <youshouldhavereadthereadme>
d:
install.exe
c:
cd "gamefolder"
cd "folder_created_by_game_installation"
play.exe

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Reply 2 of 9, by kode54

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Obviously, the source paths will not be DOS style on a Mac, or Linux. You will probably want to form those as absolute paths, such as /home/user/GameFolder, depending on where GameFolder is located.

Reply 4 of 9, by John Hughes

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I say

mount c:John/Desktop/DOSBox/1ac Folder

Which is the folder the game is in.

How would I run the "install.exe" file which is in this folder? I have tried

loadhigh:INSTALL.EXE

and other formats, help much appreciated fellows! 😀

Reply 5 of 9, by kode54

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The format to mount is:

mount <drive letter> <path on host filesystem>

I presume that host path needs to be the full unix path even on Mac, but I may be wrong. Are there any front-ends for OS X? (Assuming you are using OS X...)

Reply 6 of 9, by MiniMax

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... and it is like kode54 wrote:

mount <drive letter> <path on host filesystem>

and NOT

mount <drive letter> <COLON> <path on host filesystem>

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Reply 8 of 9, by John Hughes

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Thanks, now how would I load Install.exe from that folder?

How would I run the "install.exe" file which is in this folder? I have tried

loadhigh:INSTALL.EXE

and other formats, help much appreciated fellows! 😀

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Reply 9 of 9, by MiniMax

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Explained here:

Re: I'm sorry this must be very basic - how does one load a game on a Mac

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