Hello,

I hope my post is in the correct thread here.

I would like to play Lucas Arts and Sierra point-and-click adventures on my Android smartphone but I want to boot them from my external SD card. So far AnDosBox is refusing to do so. What am I doing wrong?

I've downloaded AnDosBox 1.2.8 from the google play store for my Samsung Galaxy S2 (GT-I9100).
My cellphone is not rooted and I'm not willing to root it. It is running with the

Android version: 4.1.2
Base band version: I9100XXLS8
Kernel version: 3.0.31-88955

Due to limited space on the built-in memory, I stored all of my games on the external SD card which is named
"extSdCard" by default while the built-in card is called "sdcard0". I haven't found a way how to change their names yet.

After having tried out aDosBox and scummmvm with both of them not even starting, I looked at possible solutions on google for two days now.

On http://goo.gl/1iFOZZ they said to fiddle with the autoexec and wrote to type this:

[autoexec]
mount c: /mnt/external_SD/c-drive
C:

So I went to the config menu:

and wrote this:

Because my files are stored here:

Not being a programer, I only changed the settings on both the last two lines both without success.

I've also tried other folders on the external SD card to see if they worked. And I tried to leave things out, like "/storage/" for example, tried to reverse the slashes and also tried to only change the very last line where it only says "c:". In all cases AnDosBox just keeps on telling me that Drive C: cannot be mounted.

A day later I found seemingly helpful advice on http://goo.gl/nauGCI
they said to mount the game's "CD" by typing:

C:\DOS>

C:\DOS>cd (name of the folder where the game is)
C:\DOS\(name of the folder where the game is)>
C:\DOS\(name of the folder where the game is)>(name of the game).exe

My problem is now that DosBox only accepts directory names that are up to eight characters long and it suggested to write "extsdc" instead of the full name. This however, does not work for some unknown reason. Is there a certain word I have to type to mount the external SD card? Or are there alternative names apart from "extSDcard" to "extsdc" or something? Can I rename the external SD card so that the name will only be eight characters long? Is the only way to play games if you put them in the built-in memory (in my case sdcard0)?

I haven't put any game file into sdcard0 but I tried accessing the folders there. I can access them by either typing /storage/, /sdcard/ or /sdcard0/ and from there I can access the following folders so it seems. Maybe there are alternative names for the external SD card like "/sdcard1/" or so.

Scummvm is supposed to work on a Galaxy S2 (http://goo.gl/8tACXc) but weirdly doesn't on mine. Maybe the current Android version does not support Scumm, despite the fact that I downloaded all of the required add-ons.

I'm not sure if I've given the right pieces of information and hope that someone here is able to help, or that at least someone else is experiencing the same kind of difficulties I do. (It'd be good not to be the only idiot on the internet who can't figure this out).

I'd be happy and grateful for all kind of feedback concerning my problem.

Thank you in advance.