VOGONS


First post, by basti007

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I now tested DOSBOX a lot with emulating directories on my harddisc as CD-ROM so that i can play the games without the CD. Works fine on some games, however doesn't work on some others.

All of these games need the right cd label so that it can find the cd-rom. Okay, so i mounted the "CD-ROM drive" with the -label parameter. However, this never did the trick so far. It's probably something different or more complex, however, i don't think so.

For example, some games (like "Dame was loaded") suddendly work as soon as i leave out the -t parameter. Then suddendly the game tells me that it found the CD with the right label.

Sometimes I think, that the -label command doesn't work when mounting CD-ROMS with the -t command. Is this possible? Is there a way to find out the current label of a drive?

Reply 2 of 10, by basti007

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Doesn't work with my DosBox (0.61):

"illegal command: vol"

Reply 4 of 10, by basti007

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I AM in the command prompt of DosBOX. I want to see the label WITHIN dosbox (to see, if it's labeled correctly when mounted) - not in the normal DOS prompt...

Reply 5 of 10, by eL_PuSHeR

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You mounted the destination drive where you want to check the label, did you?

Reply 6 of 10, by Markus

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From within dosbox you need some outside help, you can't do it with dosbox alone.
Find an old copy of norton-commander, it shows the volume label.
A simple program to display the volume label is easily implemented, I will post one later today.

Reply 7 of 10, by Markus

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I almost forgot:
The vol-command should be implemented in dosbox and the dir-command should also show the volume label like command.com does.

I will have a look at the sources and try to provide a patch.

Reply 8 of 10, by basti007

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I will probably install some older DR-DOS or FreeDOS Commands from my disks - they don't check if the right DOS version is installed, so i probably am able to use some of that stuff there. would be interessting...

Reply 10 of 10, by basti007

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Great stuff - thanks... 😀