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First post, by oneirotekt

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A while back Qbix said that support for CD labels would be in an upcoming version. Is this still the plan? There's a lot of things that install from floppy or CD that do volume label checks and won't currently work in DOSbox, not to mention some CD games do their copy protection with a simple label check. I believe the recent problems people were having getting TIE Fighter CD Edition to work were due in part to this.

The most convenient way I can think of to implement this (for users, dunno how tough it is to code) would just be to reproduce the functionality of the DOS command LABEL (which is actually still with us in the NT console):

LABEL [drive] [label]

Reply 2 of 9, by oneirotekt

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Ah, thanks! Seems to work, but TIE CD still doesn't work... guess the problem isn't with labels.

Just to be completely nitpicky, it would be nice if the volume label for a drive appeared above a directory listing... there's not currently any visible indicator of what a label is or has been changed to.

Reply 4 of 9, by Qbix

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the /p is there 😀 (cvs )

I'm thinking on displaying the the volume label in dir command.

Trouble is what to do on linux which doesn't have good default labels yet

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Reply 6 of 9, by Nicht Sehr Gut

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Originally posted by Snover ...and you can't pipe it through MORE, and ...

Which you can do easily using your "real" OS. I'd say that particular function needs to come somewhere well after full Pentium and SVGA/VESA emulation (and the ability to load Win95 in 256-color mode).

In other words, that's a really low priority.

Reply 7 of 9, by oneirotekt

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Nicht Sehr Gut wrote:

... well after full Pentium and SVGA/VESA emulation (and the ability to load Win95 in 256-color mode).

Which begs the question, when will DOSBox support DOSBox? 😁

Reply 8 of 9, by Qbix

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oneirotekt wrote:

Which begs the question, when will DOSBox support DOSBox? 😁

SDL.dll doesn't have a DOS port so the changes are very little.

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