by Serious Callers Only » 2015-8-20 @ 20:08
Mmmm, since i mentioned it i thought it best to test it out and installed Noir a shadowy thriller in dosbox.
First the good news: it works
Then the bad news: until it asks you to change discs, then it cant find a file.
The reason is obvious if you look at the name of the file it's looking for. It's > 8 characters. Therefore either the game only ever worked in later windows 95 with unicows support, or dosbox cdrom emulation is screwed in windows 3.1 and it supported > 8 characters in at least some versions.
Now this places us in a bind to play this game. A windows 95 install would work, except that windows 95 doesn't see the local drives mounted by dosbox (including isos !)
Therefore the only way is to install a cd emulator that runs on win95, create a image that windows 95 can see and dump the isos there to mount during gameplay.
This is too stupid to contemplate so i anxiously await the decade in which dosbox imgmount is fixed so windows 95 can see it as a cdrom. Or at least where win3.1 can see > 8 characters in cds (how did they advertize win3.1 support in the game without this anyway? ).
Does anyone know if the redbook standard (i think that's the right one, or maybe that is just for cd audio) allowed filenames with > 8 characters (not the complete file path, just the filename).
Me thinks some lazy code sharing between mount and imgmount is happening