Jim,
I see the dilemma: even if you're frugal with your floppy image filenames (1.img, 2.img, ... ) you are limited to mounting 16 floppies (that you can "flip" between with Ctrl + F4) before hitting the 128-character line limit.

In python ..

19 + (128 - len('imgmount a -t floppy') - 9 * len(' N.img')) / len(' NN.img') = 16

You could use letters (a.img, b.img, ... z.img) to squeeze in an additional 3 floppies.

If you drop the .img extension and name your images (1, 2, 3, ... ) you can mount 39 floppies. Maybe that's enough?

19 + (128 - len('imgmount a -t floppy') - 9 * len(' N')) / len(' NN') = 39

krcroft, thank you for the response. I did think of this short file name work-a-round. I guess I was hoping there was a more elegant solution because I want to maintain some level of reasonable naming conventions for these disks.

The DOSBox developers do support updates to accommodate proper installation of games.

If DOSBox's command line length prevents installation of a particular game (assuming reasonably named image files in 8.3 notation), then I think it would be fair to call the limitation a bug.

To present as examples, what are some games and their quantity of floppy disks that you're dealing with?

Hmm, I did small test and can't hit 128 character limit (neither in command nor batch file) - at least not with `echo` …

JimLarimore, can you show us the command you have problem with? And how do you invoke your batch file?

Apologies. This bug was reported by my dad who is archiving these disks. I just tried it out myself with police quest 4 (12 disks) and I wrote a command that had to be around 250 characters and it worked fine. I'm not sure what he ran into. But, if there is a character limit, it's a lot higher than we thought.

Glad you're all set Jim. Awesome to hear you and your dad are into the classics together.

Separate from the archiving task, there are some handy install-helpers specifically for old Sierra games here (for Windows): http://sierrahelp.com/Patches-Updates/NewSier … Installers.html