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First post, by m_gol

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I installed mentioned EuroPlus+ program on Windows 3.11 fresh install (on DOSBox, of course). There is one big problem - when I try to add a new user, program runs and tries to find a database "EURODATA.MDB" in cd folder "D:\EURO\PL\BIN". EP+ should find it itself on inserted CD and run, but it asks for the file location. When I tell it when it is located, there is an error:

"Driver's SQLSetConnectOption failed
Driver not capable.
Disk I/O error."

It happens both when I locate this file od HDD or on CD.

I tried the following CD mounting configurations (I tried emulating directly from actual CD drive and from virtual one located on HDD):

mount d _PATH_LOCATED_ON_HDD_ -t cdrom
mount d _PATH_LOCATED_ON_HDD_ -t cdrom -usecd 0 (it doesn't work at all)
mount d _MY_CD_DRIVE_LETTER_ -t cdrom
mount d _MY_CD_DRIVE_LETTER_ -t cdrom -usecd 0
mount d _MY_CD_DRIVE_LETTER_ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
mount d _MY_CD_DRIVE_LETTER_ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -noioctl

All of them returned the same error. 🙁

EP+ program works fine even at Windows XP - my problem is that I use Windows XP x64 Professional which does not support 16-bit applications.

Any ideas? I'd be grateful. 😀

P.S. I've got original learning English program - EuroPlus+ Flying Colours - dedicated to "Windows 3.1, 3.11 or newer", recorded on 3 CDs. I also own an original Polish version of Microsoft Windows for Workgroups (v 3.11) on 10 floppies (1.44 MB each of them). I managed to install this Windows 3.11 on DOSBox 0.71.

Reply 2 of 3, by m_gol

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Actually, I've done it before I posted here. I have only one CD/DVD drive. Here's what DOSBox returns to my "mount -cd" request:

CDROMs found: 1
0. F:\

Here are my [autoexec] section lines:

"[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.

mount c d:\_doswin\C
mount d f:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0
c:
SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;
SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP"

And it still returnes an error mentioned above.
When installed on a regular system, not an emulator, it works fine.

There's one more thing - this EuroPlus+ program installs some "how-to-spell" programs, too, and they work fine - the only problem is with reading this CD-base (I suppose there is an anti-pirate protection and it wants a true CD-drive - there must be a problem with DOSBox CD-emulation or simply I don't know how to mount it properly).

Reply 3 of 3, by m_gol

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I've tried to make the image file of EUroPlus+ CDs and mount the file as virtual CD drive in DOSBox, but it also doesn't work (and returns with the same error).

I just don't have any idea what I could do to make it work. 🙁

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