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First post, by MelVic

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Hi all, i have the game Secret Weapons Of The Luftwaffe its on 4 floppys, i checked the compatability for the game and its ok to run, there are no instructions on how to mount the folders ive copied each disk to its own folder,
i mount a: and it installs the first disk then asks for the next disk this is where im lost, if i try to copy all 4 disks to the same folder it asks me to overwrite existing files,

How is this done.

Thank you

Reply 2 of 9, by MelVic

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Yes i read the manual, if i had found or understood what i was looking for i would not have posted in the forum,

maybe someone who can actualy help guys like me out will post a solution for my problem.

can someone else give me a clue that helpfull

Reply 3 of 9, by robertmo

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follow the guide
60 seconds guide to getting your game to run in DOSBox
use real floppies or images
MOUNT also works with images but only if you use external program, for example (both are free):
Daemon Tools Lite (for CD images)
Virtual Floppy Drive (for floppy images)

Reply 4 of 9, by Jorpho

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The ability to switch mounted floppy images on-the-fly is indeed a feature that is sorely lacking from DOSBox. Virtual Floppy Drive is pretty much the only solution at this time.

Reply 8 of 9, by Jorpho

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There is an alternative that works in some cases: DOSBox 0.74 can't change mounted floppies on the fly, but it can change mounted CD images on the fly. What you do is burn the files from each floppy disk into a different .iso image, and then mount all the .iso files using the IMGMOUNT command, as described in the DOSBox readme.

But it doesn't always work: some installers look at the floppy disk volume label of the install floppies. You can of course change the ISO9660 volume label of the .iso images as well - but the .iso creation program might try to strip out certain characters (like "#") which you would have to hex-edit in manually. And of course some installers just won't accept that the files are coming off what appears to be a CD-ROM instead of what appears to be a floppy drive.

And of course it's a fair amount of effort for something that might not work at all, especially if you already can't manage to get it to work with Virtual Floppy Drive.

Reply 9 of 9, by MelVic

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Ok guys glad to report that it was my fault i had a bad copy of disk 2, fixed it, and glad to report that swapping mounted floppy images via Virtual Floppy Drive and also Winimage does work, thank for all the help you guys gave me Thank you.

Mark