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First post, by lucky77

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Hi there, just signed up for this, hope u guys can help, because this is driving me freakin mad 😁

I run NC as "G"UI in DOSBox, mounting my cdrom as e: while starting up. Title says it all, it does show up. When i mount my usb-floppy, it does.

I've tried every variation i can think of, both mouting order or options, i just cant get it to work. Thing is, on my last pc (which was running xp) it did!

I know, it's not a big deal, since i can type my way down the cdrom, it just makes me MAAAAAAAAD because i know that somehow it did once!

TIA

Reply 1 of 19, by Jorpho

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lucky77 wrote:

Title says it all, it does show up.

Huh?

I've tried every variation i can think of, both mouting order or options

Can you be more specific?

I know, it's not a big deal, since i can type my way down the cdrom

You can "type down to it" in Norton Commander, or what?

Reply 2 of 19, by Dominus

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Alt+f2/f1

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Reply 3 of 19, by lucky77

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Huh?

Typo, it does not 😁

So far i've tried:

- mouting cdrom in autoexec first, then starting nc
- first nc, then mount w/o quitting nc
- starting nc, quitting it, mounting, starting nc again
- mounting cdrom, running some exe on it, starting nc

and some other variations i cant remember...

Plus, ive tried all the command line options as described in the dosbox-wiki

You can "type down to it" in Norton Commander, or what?

Excuse my poor english, i meant manually by dos command line ("cd.." n stuff), so games will run

@Dominus: Brings up the drives, just e: is not shown althought its mounted

Reply 4 of 19, by Dominus

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Ok, that's out of the way then ;(
Wasn't there some setting to limit the number of drive letters being shown in NC?
Try mounting as d instead and see whether that works.

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Reply 6 of 19, by lucky77

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@mod: thx!

@dominus: mouting as d didnt work either. and i cant find an option about a drivelimit or something...

some specs: im running win7 64bit sp1 on an intel i5. dvd drive is a "TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-216AB ATA Device"

Reply 7 of 19, by Dominus

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Can you give us your exact mountings?

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Reply 10 of 19, by ripsaw8080

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In addition to menu choices, NC should also pick up on a current drive change typed at the prompt in the usual way, what happens when you do that?

I've tried NC 1.0, 3.0, 5.5, and Volkov Commander 4.05 (NC clone) with cdroms MOUNTed and IMGMOUNTed with various drive letters, and have no problems seeing and selecting the drives. The app doesn't seem picky about drives in the least.

DOSBox's Z: drive is also in the drive list, so could indicate a drive letter limit of some kind if Z: isn't showing up.

Reply 11 of 19, by Dominus

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do you do anything else besides mounting? *anything*?

Btw, this has nothing to do with your problem but games seem to like it best if c is the hard drive and d the CD-Rom, so best do
mount d e:\ -t cdrom
But as I wrote, it has nothing to do with your problem...

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Reply 12 of 19, by lucky77

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@hal: 0.74, the dir of nc ist named nc88, and it says on startup copyright 86,88

@ripsaw: z doesn't show up either!

@dominus: whole autoexec goes like this

mount c d:\dos
mount e e:\ -t cdrom
c:
keyb gr 437
cls
cd nc88
nc

-> i really appreciate the help, u guys are awesome!

Reply 13 of 19, by Dominus

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Hmm copyright 86,88? That's a very old version of NC then... I think 4.0 was 91 and the last one was 5.5 in 1996 or so...

Last edited by Dominus on 2012-04-08, 18:00. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 14 of 19, by Qbix

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try with mount d e:\ -t cdrom
instead of mount e e:\

Those old versions might not be aware of the possibility to skip drives.

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Reply 16 of 19, by ripsaw8080

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If you don't see the Z: drive, is cdrom even relevant to the issue? i.e. does a second HD mounted as D: show up?

NC 1.0 has no problem seeing drive letters after C: regardless of drive type. The version you have seems to fall between the 1.0 (1986) and 3.0 (1989) versions I've tried, but it's strange that it has the issue you describe while the others do not...

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Reply 17 of 19, by Jorpho

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To be clear, you are talking about the "autoexec" section of dosbox.conf, right?

It shouldn't make any difference whether the mount commands are in there or if they're typed manually.

Reply 18 of 19, by lucky77

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Yes, i mean the dosbox-autoexec.

I read the ncread.me, and it says is ver. 1.02D, a - german localized - hack of 1.0.

I'll try getting a different version tomorrow, but now i'll go catch some sleep!

And i'm going to find a xp-machine, since i'm 100% sure it worked back there with this version.

Reply 19 of 19, by lucky77

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So, i'm back!

Got me NC 2.0, shows all the drives. Installed my 1.02D on XP, works fine as well.

Must be some odd luck it won't show up my win7 with this very config.

Anyway, thx for the great support folks! 1UP!