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drive switching bug

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First post, by robertmo

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I have noticed that glidos is not able to run a game from drives other than C:
it is entering the folder on other drive but is not switching to it and tries to run exe from c: (the content of .bat file is wrong: missing "drive:")

Reply 1 of 20, by robertmo

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actually the problem is more serious as it is not restricted to C but to the drive glidos was installed on. I used to install glidos on a small partition for small programs only hence it was never working for me 😉

Reply 2 of 20, by Glidos

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Under which DOS emulation mode is this happening: Windows, VDos32 or DOSBox?

Reply 3 of 20, by robertmo

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windows,

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files\Glidos
cd D:\TOMBRAID\
COMMAND.COM /C Game.bat

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gldvesa.exe Tomb3dfx.exe

it simply tries to start the game form c:\program files\glidos
cause cd D:\TOMBRAID\ doesn't go to d:, it only changes directory on D: but stays in c:\program files\glidos

Reply 4 of 20, by Glidos

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So I just need the

D:

yes?

Reply 5 of 20, by wd

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cause cd D:\TOMBRAID\ doesn't go to d:,

That's how it works, as GliDOS says under DOS and Windows you'll need D: to change the drive.
Or is the snippet you posted somehow generated?

Reply 6 of 20, by robertmo

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Glidos yes
wd yes generated

Reply 7 of 20, by Glidos

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Give this one a try.

Reply 8 of 20, by robertmo

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Bad executable: "path to tomb.exe"

Reply 9 of 20, by Glidos

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What's in Glidos.bat?

It's difficult for me to test it myself. I'm running on W7 64bit.

Reply 10 of 20, by robertmo

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it doesn't even create them, it just pops up the error whatever the path is even random characters or just only space and with every game.

Reply 11 of 20, by Glidos

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Ah, that would be down to stupidity on my part. Try this one.

Reply 12 of 20, by robertmo

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still the same: Bad executable: "whatever"

Reply 13 of 20, by Glidos

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That's weird. Seems to work ok here, other than W7 not being able to run Tomb.exe. Can you tell me what the "whatever" bit is?

Reply 14 of 20, by robertmo

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whatever i type in the "path to execute box" of your gui

Reply 15 of 20, by robertmo

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i have the same error in win7 64bit

Reply 16 of 20, by Glidos

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Yeah, I knew that. 😁
I meant, what exactly did you type when you got the error? Path
needs to be of the form
<drive letter>:\<path folder 1>\ ... \<path folder n>\<exe name>

If you select the exe using the Browse button it will have that form.

Reply 17 of 20, by robertmo

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sorry, i was using 1.05a 😉

Reply 18 of 20, by Glidos

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Any luck?

Reply 19 of 20, by robertmo

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yes it works ok