Dosbox does not support Windows 95. also it doesn't support what you want. Dosbox forks like dosbox-x do though

Xelasarg wrote:

All three hdd images are mounted correctly in ykhwong's latest build (drives c, d, e), and can be fully accessed in DOS.

Technically, before you run "boot -l c", you're accessing them from DOSBox, not DOS – a subtle distinction. I suspect if you booted MS-DOS off a hard drive image, you'd have the same problem. As suggested by Dominus, you might have to use DOSBox-X, specifically its IDE emulation; if I'm not mistaken, DOSBox-X will also let you use ISOs directly with Windows 95, so you won't have to store them on your hard drive image.

(Also, hard drive images are technically not ISOs – "ISO" refers exclusively to the file system used by CD-ROMs. If anything, they're "imgs".)

If your savegames are small enough, perhaps you can use floppy images? I think DOSBox supports the 2.88 MB capacity.

but I think I remember Win95 splits volumes >2GB into two partitions, so I guess this wouldn't help, right?

The original release of Windows 95 only supports FAT16, and FAT16 does not support partitions larger than 2 GB. Windows 95 OSR2 supports FAT32 and can have much larger partitions. I'm not sure what happens if you try to mount a FAT32 hard drive image in DOSBox.

@Dominus: I know, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask. 😉
@Jorpho: thanks a lot, that was more information than I had hoped for! I was thinking of floppy images, too. Guess I'll do that.

Cheers!

Find console apps for exrtacting files from .img and for inputing files in .img. Then make .bat files to transfer your save files to/from a 32 mb .img

That's an interesting idea with lots of intriguing applications – but does any such console app exist?