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real noob problem.

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First post, by Anonymus

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Well. I almost fainted when i saw dosbox.. (Wohoo, finally, all those games i can run). weeell, i didn't get that long before i got stuck. I mounted my old games drive and folder. but then when im trying to use CD to run my game, i only get the message Unable to change to: (for example) dukenukem.

When im trying it looks like this

mount c c:\Oldgames

c:

cd dukenukem
Unable to change to: Dukenukem..

what am i doing wrong????

Reply 1 of 3, by MabusRaeen

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Type DIR and check what the folder name is.

I think the problem could be the length of your folder name.

DukeNukem
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DOS only supports 8 characters for a file name and 3 for an extension. In order to cope with this folders are 'renamed' to something like this:

dukenu~1

Don't put dosgames in folder name length longer then 8 chars some games really don't like this.

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Reply 2 of 3, by Chaotical

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Thx m8, that solved my problem ^^

Wise man say, Old games are kick ass.

Reply 3 of 3, by priestlyboy

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Oh soo true 😉

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