First post, by red_avatar
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This question has been in my mind for quite some time now - but how DO you access large amounts of data from DOS?
Basically, the situation is as follows: I have two IBM PC DOS systems of which one has a CD drive. I have a very sizeable library of DOS and Windows 3.1 games but the PCs in questions have very limited free space so it's important I can easily access a storage of some type to copy or install games on the fly.
I have my eye on this for example:
https://www.dx.com/p/sd-card-to-ide-hard-driv … digital-2005310
From what I hear, DOS should be able to access a 2GB SD card which should be enough for 200+ floppy games.
For CD images, a kind of IDE based USB stick reader that can read ISO or BIN/CUE images off the USB stick would be perfect - like how you got Floppy drive emulators. I heard these might exist and it would allow me to emulate CD games without having to dig through all my CDs to find the right one.
Anyone have any better ideas or thoughts ?
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