maybe giving the cdrom a label would do the trick.
mount d d:\ -t cdrom -label LABELNAME

where d is your cdrom-drive
and LABELNAME is the actual name of the CD.
of course, here you could try out combinations with ioctl and aspi as well.

I had no success with adding a label too. What I noticed now is, when I add -aspi I get a failure message, although the cdrom can be accessed:

MSCDEX: Failure: Path not valid.
Drive D mounted as CDRom.

Perhaps I should have mentioned first, that even when starting Albion from WinXP the game claims about to insert the CDRom. I have 2 cd-drives and two virtual drives, and when I insert the cd in one, it claims to insert the cd in the other. I disabled all cd-drives expect one, and still had no success.
So perhaps its more a problem of WinXP than DosBox? (although I have read in the forum that other people using WinXP are able to play albion)

feylon

Tried -usecd 0?

Still no success 😒
I start DosBox with:
dosbox c:\dosboxhdc -c "MOUNT D H:\ -t cdrom -label ALBION -ioctl -aspi -usecd 0"
With all possible combinations of the last 3 switches.

Perhaps there is another method to describe the source-path of the cdrom in WinXP like /dev/xxx in linux?

feylon

I think -ioctl -aspi are exclusive each other. You cannot use the both of them at the same time. Am i wrong?

as far as i know are -aspi -ioctl and -usecd 0 exclusive to another
the first one detected is the first one used.

feylon wrote:

I have read about other games doing that, and appending -ioctl or -aspi to the mount options of the cdrom should fix that, unfortunately not in my case.

Neither in my case: Pandora Directive - no chance in 0.60? And probably also in this case: DSA2 (realms of arcania 2 - german) . Maybe no command can help you at this moment.

After downloading an english version of Albion from the-underdogs it works now. This version dont need a CD-Rom.

Feylon

Hi! I had the same problem and I've done this: mounted iso with the game as disc D:\ (on disk C:\ i've installed the game) and it works!

Previously if I've used other discs names like E:\ or F:\ and the game was installed on C:\ Albion game did'nt want to work 🙁

cachaito wrote:

(on disk C:\ i've installed the game) and it works!

Magic on drive C:? Most games requires to be installed there and don't accept other drive letters. 🙁