while in a game you can't
when in the shell of dosbox type rescan.

Another possibility is mounting your directory as floppy
mount -t floppy and swap the files. (and hope dosbox and the game detect it somehow 😉

Thanks, I just tried that, but it doesn't work. The file is still recognized as in use so I can't replace or rename it. 🙁 The problem is that it happens precisely within a game, if not I would just restart the emu.

I *think* I read about a free diskette emulation driver - originally for VMware - somewhere in these forums? Use that to make a B: drive in the host, and then mount B "B:" -t floppy in DOSBox?

Edit: Jap - here it is: http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html
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MiniMax

Thanks! That program looks very promising! Although now I need an util to create disk images from files on a HDD (as opposed from directly dumping a floppy). I'll post later if/when I find anything of the sort...

Edit: http://www.winimage.com/download.htm (shareware but has a GUI) seems to do the trick... testing right now...
There's also this freeware http://www.nu2.nu/bfi/index.php?p=1, but it's command-line.

Argh... I get the same thing. It doesn't allow me to change the disk image or unmount it if another program is using it. 😵

Re: Don't panic.

That should be written in Large Friendly Letters. 😁

Good point. 😁