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Save Disks for booter games (especially Sierra)

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First post, by whbinder

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Hello everyone,

Old Booter games work pretty well for me in DOSBox (and often in PCem as well). However, I'm having a heck of a time creating a save file disk that so many use.

On some games, I'm able to 'boot game.img save.img' (where game.img is the game, and save.img is a blank.img) and then the game lets me save without issue after an ALT+F4. But other games don't.

For example. I'm working with 'Adventure in Serenia'. Sure, I know that game can be completed in ten minutes, but just as an example. The disk needs to be formatted by the booter, not DOS.

I've tried
boot game.img save.img

imgmount b save.img -t floppy
boot game.img

imgmount a save.img -t floppy
boot game.img

and a few other options. Any time I try to save, I'm told the disk has not been initialized.

Any thoughts or help?

Reply 1 of 2, by ripsaw8080

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Try the "format disk" command in the game.

boot game.img save.img
format disk (press "Y" and Enter to proceed)

After which the "save game" and "restore game" commands should work.

Note that you do NOT need to use Ctrl-F4 to swap disks in the case of Serenia because it uses B: for the save disk.

Other Sierra booters may need similar, and an SVN build of DOSBox may be needed in some cases if errors are reported during formatting.

Reply 2 of 2, by whbinder

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Oh my goodness. What an obvious oversight. Thank you very much. It's appreciated ripsaw8080.

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