APP PROBLEM: DvdRental App PROBLEM on DosBOXv0.65 \ VOGONS

APP PROBLEM: DvdRental App PROBLEM on DosBOXv0.65

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First post, by maupassant

Posted on 2006-09-20, 13:26

maupassant Offline

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Location: Slovak Republic

HW: AMD Athlon 1600+
SW: Win XP Home Slovak Edition.

I have DVD rental SW which i want to run through DosBOX.It is old DOS-based app and i want to run it in window-mode (Alt+Enter didnt work). that is the reason why i am using DosBox. So... my App is installed in a C:\CLFVIDEO directory but it has also 4 more files in a C:\ root directory (without them it didnt work at all). I run dosBOX then "mount C c:\" and when I cd into c:\CLFVIDEO (in DosBox) and run an app it will DO NOTHING!!! only "c:\CLFVIDEO\vm.exe" still on screen. DosBox still running, underscore blinking and nothing appears in a console.
i've checked the permition rights but nothing READ-ONLY i didnt see.
can U help me? thx

Reply 1 of 3, by wd

Posted on 2006-09-20, 15:30

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Is some demo of the program available?
You can try the debugger enabled dosbox (see the development forum),
it displays additional information about file opening.

Reply 2 of 3, by maupassant

Posted on 2006-09-20, 15:47

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no it is a Slovakian program..demo version will never exist. i think the problem is with the files in the root directory. the program uses internal database in which there are stored informations about films etc... and somehow dosbox doesn't allow the program to read or write from / into those files. 🙁 and when i am mounting (in DosBox) all the C:\ drive there is a warning message that this action isnt recommended.that might be the reason, i dont know. so i will try a version with debugger and if there will be any error messange i will paste it there.

Reply 3 of 3, by wd

Posted on 2006-09-20, 16:08

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If you want to get rid of the warning (and, more important, limit the
access to only the necessary files): create a directory like "C:\Dosbox\CDRIVE"
and copy the files from your real root (the 4 files you mentioned) into
that directory. Then copy the whole CLFVIDEO directory there, too
so you've got a "C:\Dosbox\CDRIVE\CLFVIDEO" directory on your disk.
In dosbox, you can use "mount c c:\dosbox\cdrive" then. Switch to
c: in dosbox and type "dir" to see how it looks like (this should match
the directory structure your program expects).

The above won't solve the file access problem though. Be sure that
all needed files are displayed by dosbox (change to the respective
directory and type "dir" to see if they're there).

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