Be sure you really use the colon and not something that looks similar.
Best enter the stuff into your dosbox.conf and report back with FULL
system specs and exact mountings.

Hi and I have made sure that I am using the colon. It won't use either the the slash, colon OR the semi colon in this situation! I have an XP desktop PC.

Have a look at the readme.

Laptop?
Vista?
Language?

Bubba Jake wrote:

Hi and I have made sure that I am using the colon. It won't use either the the slash, colon OR the semi colon in this situation! I have an XP Windows desktop PC CD and DVD drives.

Have a look at the readme.

Open your dosbox.conf file in Notepad and enter the mount commands there.

Thank you for that info. Just for the sake of getting all of it correct, can you please restate the parts I need to change? I know it's different from DOSBox63 and 70.
And I will read the readme. I wasn't ignoring you. Thank you, also!

Read the Readme (again) and this sorta explains where I got stuck. When I get to where it says:
Z:\>mount C "C:\Documents and Settings\your-user-name\My Documents\DOSBox stuff\MyGame" I have followed all the instructions and typed that part in and I hit enter.
My PC says C does not exist. I'm stuck right there not knowing what to do. When I type in the second line where it says:
Z:\>mount D "F:\" -t cdrom (my cd rom is 'F') after I hit enter.
The PC says D is mounted. Then it says:
Z:\> again.

Go to the end of the file, at the section called [ autoexec ]. Anything entered below the [ autoexec ] heading will be read by DOSBox just like if you had typed it at the Z: prompt.

Where the DOSbox in 60 seconds instructions say:
1. Create a folder for your game, e.g. in your My Documents folder - "C:\Documents and Settings\My nickname here\My Documents\DOSBox stuff\MyGame".
My PC says: A file name cannot contain any of the following characters:\ / : * ? " < > |
I have used: DOSBOX stuff My games.
Will that work? Thank you.

Hi 'VISTA' and thank you for that last bit. I'm doing this step by step. Why is this harder than DOSBox63?? Rhet...

You need to do it in 2 steps:

1) First create the "DOSBox stuff" folder.
2) Inside that folder, create "MyGame".

MiniMax wrote:

You need to do it in 2 steps:

1) First create the "DOSBox stuff" folder.
2) Inside that folder, create "MyGame".

This is what I got after doing it in 2 steps:

CDocuments and Settingsyour-user-name... <---it's literally like this 1 folder inside the other.
Here, it won't allow me to change to my nickname OR add any of the other punctuation.

Sorry Bubba, but this thread is becoming ridiculous. Creating folders is not witchcraft, and is considered basic computer knowledge, i think. Creating folders is actually the easiest part of playing old DOS games with DOSBox, so i don't see this thread ending soon. I don't think we're here to give you a "Computers for beginners" primer. Don't you have someone to help you with that stuff, a friend or a relative maybe? That would be much more efficient than trying to solve multiple problems at once, in blind flight, like you're trying now.

Anyway, maybe this helps: you just need a folder to mount as a c:\ drive in DOSBox, any folder. You could create "c:\dosgames" on your host system, and mount that folder in DOSBox. The name or location of that folder doesn't matter at all, because it will simply become your c:\ drive inside DOSBox after mounting it. If you want to create a folder inside a folder, first create the top folder with Windows Explorer, then click on that folder with the mouse, and create another folder. Using a simple folder structure (like the "c:\dosgames" example above) might actually be easier for now. If you're using Windows Vista (i'm not sure, you've mentioned "VISTA" in one of your posts, but completely out of context), the whole thing becomes a bit more complicated, as you have to create the folder in a place where you have access rights with your Windows user account. I don't use the POS that is Vista, so i'm not quite sure where such a place might be. A workaround would be to logon as an Administrator on your machine, that would give you access to any folder on your harddrive.

I am angry at Bubba Jake's keyboard for letting him type.... 😒

dvwjr

dvwjr wrote:

I am angry at Bubba Jake's keyboard for letting him type.... 😒

That's not any more helpful or intelligent than Bubba's posts.

Do you have a folder named "C:\Documents and Settings"?

Yes or No.

If no, do you have a folder with a similar name?

I'm sorry to everyone. I have made folders and folders within folders trying to name them the way suggested. The closest I could get was a folder named DOSBox stuff MyGame with another folder inside named CDocuments and Settings BubbaMy Documents DOSBox stuff MyGame. I cannot get ANY punctuation at all. Nothing works and my PC still says C doesn't exist when I try mounting it.Thank you all for your help. I guess DOSBox 72 just won't work for me.

Yeah have fun.