First post, by lasitter
I have these old Dos .EXE files that generate disc images onto an attached FDD, but I'm having conflicting problems making this work.
Win7 sees the FDD and will format it normally. It will not run the old .EXE files because they expect to run under either DOS or OS/2 ...
After mounting A:\, Dosbox will attempt to run the old .EXE file as long as you don't actually write the output to the FDD. If you do that, when it gets to the point of actually writing the disk, (as I sort of expected) it reports Drive A: not ready/unknown media.
I've failed to get the Virtual XP Machine working but the install fails, so to date I can't get route working.
I'm hoping that there's some setting in the .conf file that will help me get to where I want to be, so if you have a suggestions, I'm all ears!
I'm also willing to entertain the notion of installing additional software just to make the floppy more functional. I've also considered something like VMWare player, but don't want to go that way until other options are exhausted.
Many thanks in advance.