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First post, by Kelly Stiver

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Good evening, all! I recently made .ima backups of all of my DOS computer game and Windows 3.11 setup diskettes (these are 3.5-inch), using WinImage and extracted the contents of these .IMA files into the appropriate folders on my Windows XP desktop PC's hard drive and backed this up in turn onto a DVD+R. I'm assuming that since I did this, I'll no longer need the original 3.5-inch floppies nor the old Packard-Bell PC that these programs were used on since I'll be using DOSbox 0.72_win32Installer(is this the correct name for this version of DOSbox)? to run these programs either on my Windows XP desktop PC or my Windows XP laptop PC. Am I correct in assuming this?

Reply 1 of 4, by MiniMax

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Sounds very correct Kelly. I am not familiar with diskette images or the IMA-format, so I suggest you make a few tests. There might also be a few cases where the game will ask you to insert diskette #2, #3 and so on. That can be a little difficult for DOSBox to handle when it comes to diskette images.

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Reply 3 of 4, by Kelly Stiver

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h-a-l-9000 wrote:

Games using bad sectors as copy protection won't work this way.

When I told WinImage to read all of these floppies, it did not report any bad sectors; all reads of all the games were clean, good reads