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First post, by squeege321

Posted on 2014-08-30, 14:29

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Good morning all,

I've done some digging through this forum and the internet, but haven't found any instances of the issue I am having.

I've got DosBox 0.74 installed, and am trying to mount the game "Exploration". The game provides music from the CD itself. My understanding is that the -usecd * command is used to allow for this, but I use and get the following:

Z:\>mount d c:\dosgames\Explore -t cdrom -usecd 0 -label Explore
Message not Found!

If I remove -usecd 0, the mount is successful. Sound effects will work via sb16, but no music.

mount -cd gives
CDROMs found: 2
0. D:\
1. E:\

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Reply 1 of 5, by Qbix

Posted on 2014-08-30, 15:10

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-usecd is intended to be used when mounting the path of a real cdrom.
so mount d d:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -label Explore

The message not found errormessage is an error in DOSBox. Thanks for the report

This probably needs to be added in DOS_SetupPrograms

1MSG_Add("MSCDEX_ERROR_PATH","MSCDEX: Specified location is not a CDRom drive.\n");

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Reply 2 of 5, by squeege321

Posted on 2014-08-30, 15:37

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Ahh, that makes sense, thanks Qbix.

The sound prog for the game has a menu for 'Select Music Source' with options of 'CD Audio' and 'No Music'. Are there any additional params I should be loading the cd with to allow for the 'CD Audio' option?

I know its just as likely that the game may not be 100% compatible, so if that's the case no big deal. I just want to make sure I'm not missing anything.

Reply 3 of 5, by Qbix

Posted on 2014-08-30, 15:40

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nah, the label is probably not required either if you have the original CDROM in your drive.

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Reply 4 of 5, by squeege321

Posted on 2014-08-30, 15:46

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I don't have the original cd. Just got it in my head that -usecd allowed for some sort of extended cd capability.

Thanks for the responses, happy Saturday 😀

Reply 5 of 5, by Qbix

Posted on 2014-08-30, 15:48

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it does, but it needs a CDROM (and drive) to work (hence the name use cd)

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