mount the folder as a floppy, so if the program is in C:\whatever\ear\ear.exe then do the following commands in dosbox:
mount a c:\whatever\ear -t floppy
a:
ear

Got it to work on the A floppy

mount c a:\ -t floppy

changed to c

then typed ear and the program loaded and worked

THANK YOU!!!!!

Your exampled help me figure it out. It's been a while since I used DOS commands.

Is there anyway to create a shortcut?

yes, open the dosbox.conf with notepad and edit the autoexec section with the commands you gave., then just start Dosbox 😀

(btw. to save your floppy from tear, you could still do it the way I gave above and load it your hard drive while the program *thinks* it is on a floppy 😀

I am doing something wrong when trying to access the files I copied from the floppy to the my C hard drive.

What is the proper way to establish a new directory on the hard drive?

DOSBOX keeps saying directory does not exist

Copy it from Windows, not DOSBox.

Also mounting folders with spaces need "" around and you need to put the program in a folder with only 8 letters

I tried

Mount c c:/"programs"/"ear"

This did not work, get the follwoing

directory c:/programs/ear does not exist

why the quotes? and it should be "mount c c:\programs\ear" or if you follow what I wrote "mount a c:\programs\ear -t floppy" (since Dosbox can make it seem like a folder on oyur hd is a floppy drive 😀).
The most important question though, where did you put the ears stuff on your real hd? C:\programs\ear or some other folder?

I created a file fin the programs file called ear. I copied all of the files from the floppy into that folder

I created a file in the programs file called ear on the C hard drive. I copied all of the files from the floppy into that folder

ok, so it is in C:\Program Files\ear? Right?
then you need to "mount a "C:\program files\ear" -t floppy"

Now it works. Thank you so much!

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What is the purpose of the -t floppy command?

That the folder/drive is handled/emulated as a floppy drive. Some floppy games might complain if they aren't run on a floppy.

I don't recommend using the flag though, unless you are certain that you need it.

Oh, why is that? Just for interests sake

technically the flag does 2 main things:
1) set the diskspace to the size of a floppy (always a good thing)
2) always reset the drivecaching on each request. The latter is great is if you have multiple floppies (no need for ctrl-f4) However the caching of findfirsts is there for a reason. (some games require consistent results when having multiple findfirst/findnexts running. (those are broken then))