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First post, by HUNDOLOS

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Hello everyone 😀 So my problem is that I would like to use a BIN/CUE image file in DOSBox, and make it portable (kind of like how people at GOG.com, so when it's all finished, I wanna pack it into a self-extracting archive and then it'll work wherever someone extracts it). Hence I'm using the portable version from PortableApps, but as far as I know, it's exactly the same on the inside, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Anyway, the actual problem is that DOSBox happily accepts a path relative to dosbox.exe when I'm creating a drive from a folder (even creating a CD drive using the contents of a folder worked perfecty, but I can't do that now, since there's CD audio), but it just doesn't want to find/accept the cue (and bin) files when they're in the same place (or in a folder which is in the same place, tried it all).

Basically, having tried a few options, what I'd like to ask for is commands that actually work, to mount an image called rally.cue (it was Rally Champion.cue before, but got rid of spaces and upper case while trying) as a D CD drive, the cue file being either in the same place as dosbox.exe or in a folder there, the point is, I need it referenced relatively.

Thanks so much 😀

PS: the error message is always: "The image must be on a host or local drive."

Reply 1 of 18, by IIGS_User

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Good idea to remove the space char in its file name.

Other suggestions are:

Be sure, that no folder in its path includes space char and /
because DOSBox sees the / as a path divider (see "mount c c:/DOS/CDRIVE").

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Reply 2 of 18, by HUNDOLOS

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IIGS_User wrote:

Be sure, that no folder in its path includes space char and /
because DOSBox sees the / as a path divider (see "mount c c:/DOS/CDRIVE").

That wouldn't matter if I could mount it from the same folder as dosbox.exe, but it just won't work, any I still don't know why.

Reply 3 of 18, by leileilol

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Let me get this straight
imgmount D ./goingtomyimages/rally.cue -t cdrom isn't working

but
imgmount D F:/MyFreakinStick/DOSBoxPortable/goingtomyimages/rally.cue -t cdrom is?

..... I question the motive for making a self-extracting archive..... I feel like I could be helping some shitty dumbass abandonware site by making this post 😒

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Reply 4 of 18, by HUNDOLOS

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leileilol wrote:
Let me get this straight imgmount D ./goingtomyimages/rally.cue -t cdrom isn't working […]
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Let me get this straight
imgmount D ./goingtomyimages/rally.cue -t cdrom isn't working

but
imgmount D F:/MyFreakinStick/DOSBoxPortable/goingtomyimages/rally.cue -t cdrom is?

..... I question the motive for making a self-extracting archive..... I feel like I could be helping some shitty dumbass abandonware site by making this post 😒

imgmount d d:\DOSBoxPortable\App\DOSBox\rally.cue -t cdrom <-- makes it crash

imgmount d d:\DOSBoxPortable\App\DOSBox\rally.cue -t iso <-- gives the same message

And sorry for the disrespect, but I question your lack of imagination - I'm making this for someone who's not the kind of user to bother with config files or forums, but I could be making it for myself just as well.

Reply 5 of 18, by bloodbat

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It does work for me...in any case, why not try imgmount d <yourlongwindedpath>\cd\<yourfile>.cue -t cdrom

Reply 6 of 18, by HUNDOLOS

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bloodbat wrote:

It does work for me...in any case, why not try imgmount d <yourlongwindedpath>\cd\<yourfile>.cue -t cdrom

Your post shed some light (and a solution) on the whole thing: I said "let's go back to defaults, maybe that's the problem, and violá:

Memory size was on 32, yeah, I know it's above recommended, but I seriously didn't expect problems on this kind of level because of that.

Memsize to 30 and everything works. So it's kind of my fault, but... I never saw any big warnings that even the most basic functions might not work if you go beyond the suggested limit.

Reply 7 of 18, by bloodbat

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I don't have those either: I'm running Blood with 32

Reply 8 of 18, by ripsaw8080

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For memsize to have some effect on mounting... I'd like to say "impossible", but I'll go with "highly unlikely" to be safe.

Reply 9 of 18, by bloodbat

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I still bet on some wrong command line

Reply 10 of 18, by HUNDOLOS

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bloodbat wrote:

I still bet on some wrong command line

Well try it with 32 MB of memory then and see if it still works.

Reply 11 of 18, by wd

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He already did, see his screenshot.

Reply 12 of 18, by HUNDOLOS

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wd wrote:

He already did, see his screenshot.

Oops, quite right, my bad, sorry, didn't pay attention.

On the other hand, you can either assume that I'm an idiot and didn't notice wrong commands (even during heavy scrutiny), but then magically didn't make mistakes when I set memory to 31 MB 😁 or possibly there's something wrong still, maybe with the PortableApps version.

Reply 13 of 18, by Qbix

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well that version is not supported by us. So who knows what is wrong with it.

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Reply 14 of 18, by HUNDOLOS

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Qbix wrote:

well that version is not supported by us. So who knows what is wrong with it.

I didn't know that.
Is regular dosbox "portable" in the sense that it still works if I just copy the whole folder somewhere? Would it be worth using instead of the portableapps one?

Reply 15 of 18, by Jorpho

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I don't know about the PortableApps.com version, but by default DOSBox screenshots go in the %appdata% folder ("C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data" in XP). That may be a consideration.

Reply 16 of 18, by HUNDOLOS

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Jorpho wrote:

I don't know about the PortableApps.com version, but by default DOSBox screenshots go in the %appdata% folder ("C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data" in XP). That may be a consideration.

Um... what's that the the answer to?

Reply 17 of 18, by Jorpho

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You were asking if regular DOSBox was "portable". Portable apps are generally known for not leaving data behind on the machines where they are run.

If you're just concerned about whether it will work at all, then I'm pretty sure DOSBox will run quite happily if you just copy the whole folder somewhere. Why not try it and find out? 😉

Reply 18 of 18, by DosFreak

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Copy DOSBox folder to wherever you want.
Verify that you have full read/write permissions to this folder.
Verify there is a capture folder in the DOSBox folder.
Verify that you have a "dosbox.conf" in the DOSBox folder. If not then generate one.
DOSBox is now "portable". Be amazed.

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