Well, you could use D-Fend Reloaded frontend for creating .img files.

In most cases a folder with the files from the floppy mounted as the A: drive will do. If it asks for the floppies, all that usually need to be done is to use the -t floppy and maybe the -label switches. That is why all that I usually do to archive my old floppy games is to copy the contents of each floppy to its own folder. If the disk has a label I use that for the folder name, if not disk1, disk2, etc. I then burn them to DVD and keep copy on a hard drive that I use for storing data.

That said, there are a few games that expect the original disks. In some cases they use a form of copy protection that cannot be added to an image, such as some of the original Sierra AGI games where they faked a bad sector on the disk

You can use Disk Copy Fast, WinImage, or Teledisk to try and make backups of the disks to image files... winimage can handle most floppy image formats including .dcf.

You need some real dos to use these apps though. (except winimage which is a windows program)

Floppy Image 1.5.2
http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/files … ppyimage152.zip

Thank you all... I will have a go at these suggestions...

Did publishers put as much copy protection such as bad sectors on PC games as they did Amiga games?

I have a few games on 3.5" where the installer can distinguish between an original disk or not. It's rather rare, many games from back then recommended making a copy of the disk.

skttrbrain wrote:

which leads me on to the the question of weather you can swap disk images in Dosbox during an installation?

Not as of 0.73, oddly enough - that only works for CD ISO images.

Instead, you can use a combination of DOSBox and Virtual Floppy Drive, a Windows program.

Images and a virtual floppy drive works perfectly...