First post, by Dominus
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As in another thread mentioned I got WfW 3.11 to work with latest Dosbox sources. I got one problem though, if I mount my floppy drive before starting Windows the a:\ drive is not selectable inside of Windows (I can execute stuff on floppy by directly entering the path instead of browsing to the exes).
That's the one curiosity.
The other one is that I try to install an old Windows game I bought ages ago http://www.sdispace.com/inspace.htm. This game won't let the joystick work in XP so I tried Wfw 3.11 (since I bought it when I still used this old Windows).
Unfortunately the installer makes some check on the floppy disc before installing to decide wether to install the full version or just the demo. This check is not passed through Dosbox it seems since it only wants to install the demo and not the full version. In Windows XP it correctly recognizes the original floppy (I do have to make direct copies of the original floppy though since the installer also sets something weird on the floppy to make sure you can't install the full game on another computer - stupid copy protection).
so... is there any future fix for more advance floppy access planned? Or will you be able to mount images as floppy some day?
Note: WFW 3.11 works quite good now. I was able to just play back an old Windows backup with the Norton Desktop already completely setup.